[than opposing smoking in a cocktail culture] is closing down every night disgusted with the odor of cigarettes wafting from my clothes and hair, even my skin, and trying to stanch my dread about w...

Um . . . where do we stand with this right now? Is it so wrong to ask the questions? Instead, isn't it very wrong not to ask the questions? Back in June, the columnist Bob Herbert predicted tha...

The NYTimes yesterday illustrated Frank Rich's disection of Dubya's domestic and foreign obsessions with a line drawing and its graphic text, "Big Hat--No Cattle," but I'm told by my reliable sourc...

[somebody else is not taking this Putsch-ring thing very well! This is from Mark Morford's email list] To All My Friends Who Bought Me The Election They are Republican "Pioneers," the raisers o...

We did it for oil then*. We're doing it for oil now. Almost all Americans cheered our depredations then. Almost all Americans are cheering the planned war now. This is a democracy, we tell the ...

I'm not a fan of marriage in any form, but queers have a right to be as conventionally careless and silly as anyone else. Still, let's not make it a requirement. The Washington Post, Chicago Trib...

[message from Steve in Palestine as relayed through Donald here in New York] Sunday 8/18. I spoke with Steve at 9 AM New York Time (4PM Palestine Time) Still not much action to report, but lot...

[not much today, but this is a short update of Steve's activity, relayed through a friend] Just got of the phone with Steve. It's around 8 on Saturday morning. He was at a checkpoint between Be...

--and studly as well! Jonathan Rosen actually does the kind of activism that the rest of us must do no less than support fully, if we can't expect to equal his own dedication and energy. "We liv...