Ah, that's better. I've been feeling so distanced from the visual arts thing for months, I was beginning to think I was going through another change of life (-style). This afternoon's outing put t...

The Washington Post is certainly not repeating its brave record of the Viet Nam war era. The paper has been diligent in pushing a very conservative foreign policy agenda and dramatically demonstra...

If you are alive, dancing is a fundamental right, but dancing is illegal in almost any public place in New York City today. Come to City Hall Park thursday (Halloween!) to help show that we can an...

"For the Bush administration is an extremely elitist clique trying to maintain a populist facade." Paul Krugman deconstructs the short-term strategy of the Bush administration and then, inexplicab...

The news could not be more sad (even for me, and I have little interest in the Broadway musical form), unless it had included an announcement of the death of Betty Comden as well. In fact, Comden ...

Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, and five others were killed today in a small plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota. The Senator was one of our most courageous and progressi...

Harry Hay died today. HARRY HAY, PAVED THE WAY FOR MODERN GAY ACTIVISM, DIES AT 90 Henry "Harry" Hay, known as the founder of the modern American gay movement, has died at age 90. The pioneerin...

Gosh, and I thought it was just their cars and SUVs that were offensive. Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, is title sponsor of the monthlong 16-city Come Together and Worship Tour, which b...

What does the world look like today, compared to what it looked like just two years ago? No, the dwarf in the White House can't be blamed for everything, but he certainly can't be credited with an...

Washington chickenhawks don't like what all of the top intellegence agencies are telling them, so they've erected a creature, responsible only to them, to give them the answer they want. Some off...