(credit: PritchettCartoons.com) This week’s Supreme Court ruling (MGM v. Grokster) favoring the music industry against file-sharers should...
Month: June 2005
As with so much of the African music I feature here, I first heard this album on...
Avi Shlaim wrote a terrifically cogent and deeply depressing Op-Ed piece in the Guardian, Withdrawal is a...
In migrating from Typepad to WordPress, mod_rewrite and .htaccess are your friend…when they are not your mortal...
Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street says the coldly amoral line: “Greed is good.” Well, I...
The academy superintendent, Lt. Gen. John Rosa, speaking to reporters in Colorado Springs, compared the struggles over...
Anna Young’s ‘Strips Talk of the Nation’ Gees Bend quilt: my new favicon and gravatar I’ve just...
My garden seems to have distinct classes of flowers that display at different parts of the growing...
Tashnuba Hayder was an average 16 year-old teenager living with her Bangladeshi-American family in Queens when the...
If you love WordPress, don’t be put off by my overly cute post title. I come not...
Why is the Israeli government so scared of efforts to promote Israeli-Palestinian dialogue they can’t control? Take...
Bob Geldof and the folks behind Live8, a megaconcert designed to promote awareness of Africa, have reacted...
