I know the biblical Tower of Babel was probably located near the Black Sea, but it seems that modern Israelis have decided to build a new one between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, on Palestinian land of...

Some of you already know that Barry and I kinda collect art things--lots of art things. So, if I occasionally make a point of talking about one artist or another in the midst of my political diatr...

Reuters caught up with the vacationing Shrub on a golf course today and shares their conversation about Saddam Hussein and Iraq with a public awaiting with baited breath. "I described them [Iraq]...

[This is not a call for war of any kind. Far from it. I have no doubts that we aren't going to fix what's wrong with ourselves or anyone else in the world by slugging it out. The observation whi...

Of course it has absolutely nothing to do with the global warming the Shrub tells us we just have to adjust to. Are there mosquitos in Crawford, Texas?

But for Daphne, it was all just one career move. She did what she wanted to do, and did it for a very long time, and then she stopped. Daphne Bayne Hellman, the jazz harpist who performed around...

Well, if it's not total hell for everyone, it's still a very long way from the promise of this beautiful land, and it's very much a purgatory for all. Even if you don't believe in the concept of e...

--for total hegemony. You want our money, you want us to not make trouble for you? Then you'd better sign here right now, giving us the right to do our war-crime thing and our genocide thing with...

From TIME, for gawds's sake! Nader's a saint. Alright, he looks like Abe Lincoln, but he really comes just after Francis of Assisi. Here he is on "CEO's behaving badly." [TIME's phrase] For al...