I know my title above sounds like a big downer. But really, this discussion I had with...
Month: May 2004
In At a Palestinian Protest, Israeli Gunfire Leaves at Least 10 Dead, James Bennet gives us another...
Yes, I think so. Today’s story, Children Fill Ledger of Death, No Matter How, or How Many...
Like a trail of poisonous liquid, the Iraq prison abuse scandal flows outward to infect new senior...
ABC News has secured two new photos of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. This one features Spl. Sabrina...
Conrad’s Lord Jim is one of the great masterpieces of world literature. Its most important theme revolves...
Sen. James Inhofe (R, OK) feigns”outrage that we have so many humanitarian do-gooders right now crawling all...
My brother just sent me this great joke from James Carville’s Had Enough? A Handbook for Fighting...
New York Times architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp rhapsodizes about Seattle’s new Central Library in The Library That...
Hope you didn’t miss Elizabeth Bumiller’s attempt (Rumsfeld Preserves Bearing, but Weighs Ability to Serve) to humanize...
Alex Witchel profiled Mimi Sheraton in Undisguised Pleasures of a Former Critic. Turns out that Sheraton’s mom,...
We have had a relatively mild winter (only one cold spell during which the temperatures went down...