Does the world simply envy us, or is there something else going on as well? Americans are the world's luckiest teenagers, with the best car, the fattest allowance and the biggest line of brag, ye...

Yea! The eagles are back in Manhttan, reintroduced into our only remaining swath of virgin forest. Yesterday afternoon a group of Urban Park Service workers toted them down a trail to a 20-foot ...

Do we really think anything involving force will make us feel safe? We have more of that stuff than anyone in the world, even the Israelis. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Air National Guard fighter...

Why is U.S. foreign policy so fundamentally irreconcilable with that of our European friends? Our differences are still being ignored or minimized by just about all parties, but real differences t...

This alarming short comment was an introduction to an alert from FAIR about a talk* by Crispin Miller, author of "The Bush Dyslexicon." George W. Bush's broken English and his ignorance about the...

This one is really just for those of you are not fags or dykes, or otherwise queer; the rest of us know about this already. We live it. There is still nothing in the universe worse than a queer....

I've admired Richard Goldstein for years, largely through his pieces in the Village Voice. This week his essay in The Nation really did it for me. I'm linking it here because Goldstein has done a...

We now have a window into what President Bush and America's senators think of the world's women: Not much. An international women's treaty banning discrimination has been ratified by 169 countries...

Now can we start the revolution? Look at Bloggy if you want to know what tomorrow will bring for all of us, and take full note of the Washington Post's take on the emperor and his clothes. This i...

Ok, this should be the last log item coming out of the New Festival screenings, but it's a real winner! "Boychik" is a magical little film which was part of the most excellent Growing Pains shorts...