Month: March 2008

I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but during this week, for the first time that I can recall, the news stations focusing on the story of our suffering economy started mentioning, at albeit a minimal amount, the...

Lately I have been impressed with the quantity of columns getting published in bigtime newspapers that have all the appearance of homework assignments. They just seem like the authors were tasked with writing an essay on some...

Here on Easter Sunday it’s important to note that not much has changed in the Idiotsphere, despite a near meltdown this week in the markets and St. McWar having Alzheimer’s moments all over national teevee about...

Nearly two millenia ago a great teacher and prophet and (as many Christians believe) the Son of God walked the earth and taught people that they should love one another, even their enemies, even those they despised. It was a...

Uri Avnery, founder of Gush Shalom, one of the oldest peace organizations in Israel, posted this essay about the American presidential election yesterday. Entitled, Two Americas, Avnery discusses the presidential election in a...