"But (he or she) did it first!" goes the plaintive rationalization with which every parent is familiar. Don't expect anything better from the so-called oposition party in the campaign to return go...

Clinton, the master of missed opportunities and political cowardice [ok, there have been and will be worse, but few from whom we could have expected as much], said friday in Barcelona that he did n...

Now that's a sound bite! Can we package this guy? Dr. Joep Lange reduced the problem to its essentials with an analogy he made in addressing the Barcelona AIDS Conference just ended: He said th...

This from a blog (belonging to a beautiful woman who writes as Bazima) which I clearly visit with not enough regularity: Friday, July 12, 2002</p> An Important Message from My Gay Boyfrien...

Great art for you, emergency medical relief for a beleagured Palestinian population, and a little recognition for some brilliant and courageous artists and the people who organized an extraordinary...

Yes, I think so! Not since the last almost-presidential election have I been so hopeful about the ability of our polity to turn itself around, or correct (at least part of) itself, as I am tonight...

So, it's up to the person posing as president to decide who is an American and who has a right to a lawyer, so long as he says he's protecting us! [The judge] said the executive branch of the gov...

We are being misled, and all is not what it seems. And it's becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone but the truest I-believe-everything-Ari-Fleischer-says jingoists who actually believes t...

Government in the U.S. today spends more per capita on health care than any nation on earth, including those with national health insurance. Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, [an author of the Harvard Med...

Good news! Our trusty fascist government is no longer holding most of those arrested in racist sweeps after September 11! Nope. The bad new is that we threw them out of the country without heari...