We lost. We didn't know we were at war. We didn't even think there was an enemy. The weapons were all in the other side's hands, but since we were thoroughly brain-washed before hostilities bega...

There is, unfortunately, almost no precedent for the kind of attack this former President today directed against the current White House occupants. Fundamental changes are taking place in the his...

We don't want to speak out and we don't want to listen in. Hlynur Hallsson arrived this summer in Marfa, Tex., with plans, as he put it, to stimulate discussion. [The first exhibit which the art...

We love Paul Rudnick! This week in The New Yorker he writes a helpful memo to the FBI which should assist them in an investigation of the putative Gay Mafia. RE: The F.B.I.'s racketeering divisi...

but AIDS activism threatens governments, including China now. The news item is now about a week old. A major Chinese AIDS activist, Dr. Wan Yanhai, "disappeared" sometime after August 24. Relati...

Sometimes I feel like I'm doing a sort-of Reader's Digest thing on this weblog, condensing other sources' feelgood and feelbad items for easier accessibility. Well, Harper's goes one step further ...

Sorry. Yeah, it's sentimental I guess, but it's really ok, because they're tough, these guys, and at least one gal, who looks like she could handle anything--and probably has had to. It's a wonde...

Yup. It appears on the "Styles and Fashion" page of the paper's site. It's the first for the NYTimes and it's a nice story, so here it is. The couple met in October 1992 in Washington, where Mr...

We joined our handsome blog-fellows at The Abbey last night, but we missed the women this time! The Driggs Street boite is way cool, but if we have a community as bloggers it's all about the fact ...

[I'm excerpting sections from a contributing OP-ED piece by Zbigniew Brzezinski in yesterday's NYTimes. The complete text fleshes out the skeletal, but succinct, argument posted here.] Missing f...