Lott stays, for now, sorta hanging out there in the breeze for all to enjoy, neck in a noose; Kissinger drops out, deciding he can't take the heat just yet, will wait for the fires of hell; and Car...

Because of an experience of my own, Pinter's introductory analogy reads as particularly genuine, but the main text of this address should read as genuine to all. By Earlier this year, I had a maj...

Can we all agree on one thing? If there realy were a god, he wouldn't be working with a Cardinal Law. Law's outrageous assaults upon those who trusted him, and those who never would, did not begi...

Awwww. That's so sweet. It's nice to know that Christian tourists may not be too discomfited by the repeated brutal Israeli invasions of Palestinian Bethlehem during this joyful Christmas season....

It seems that even our beloved Santa Claus has been dragged into the growing world resistance to American commercial and political hegemony. Yea! Yea indeed for Austria, where there is a campaign...

I say, Please, please, please don't get rid of Trent Lott! After Bush himself, Lott is the most spectacular evidence we have for the stupidity, disconnectedness and pure malevolence that has desce...

Jonathan Capehart may only be pretty, dumb and clueless, but his popularity with the media as a safe right-wing gay spokesperson, exceeded only by another establishment lacky, Andrew Sullivan, is m...

The UN is dead! The organization operates as an arm of our de facto executive in Washington or not at all, and this week it physically, if not formally, handed over its responsibilities to the Whi...

We really try to ignore the more commercial propiquus/ubiquitous/iniquitous holidays (which will remain nameless) ourselves, in favor of the solstice, but sometimes you just want to give, er, a gif...

We'll be waiting for at least a few more years, and maybe we'll wait forever, but at least some of us know what we are waiting for. The New York Philharmonic was 160 years old on Saturday, with m...