Month: August 2008

Found this fella on the beach today: Larger version here.

Is this the nadir? “Listen, I’m skinny but I’m tough,” Sen. Obama said. But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a...

I don’t remember how old I was the first time it happened. I couldn’t have been more than ten years old. We were in Philadelphia — my mother, my younger sister, and I — visiting my great grandfather on my...

Last week, Mark Elf of Jews sans frontieres reported this latest development in the boycott and divestment effort against Israel until it provides a fair and just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Of late, this has...

Vacationing as I am, with little internet access, I can’t really delve into the anthrax attacks. The government’s prime suspect apparently killed himself on Tuesday with an overdose of Tylenol with codeine. Turns out...