The world needs Ray Johnson right now. Ok, at least I do. Ray is gone, but what he left behind, that part of his art which could survive him, is now more accessible than perhaps ever before. The...

What an amazing world! And what an amazing city! (Paris, this time) In an earlier post I described Bertrand Delanoe, the Mayor of Paris, as queer, green and a socialist, and nothing much was yet...

"war as only a tool of statecraft" [my characterization of the accelerating Republican talk of war] Now that sounds like a fine old European tradition, although one modern Europe was happy to aba...

Do something. Together with tomorrow and just possibly the day after, these may be the most fateful days in modern American history. Some day they will ask, "Where were you?" Be ready to tell th...

The queer green socialist Mayor of Paris [just try using those adjectives anywhere in this country to describe a town executive!] was stabbed, apparently by a deranged man, in the midst of the all-...

[This goy would wear it as a badge of honor, if he could imagine it involved any merit on his part.] Tonight I was surprised to find myself the target in a classic and somewhat extended anti-semit...

A great orator, and perhaps the last of his kind. I don't often see eye-to-eye with the senior Senator from West Virginia, but Democrat Robert C. Byrd did amazing work in the halls of Congress thi...

--not that the media is going to report her statement, even if she is a celebrity (shouldn't that be enough of a temptation?), when it refuses to cover the statements of (legitimate?) politicians w...

There really is an excellent reason for supporting war with Iraq, or at least for talking about such a war. If one is of the Republican persuasion and one wishes to maintain and even increase the ...