03 November 2006
"You, sir, should be horsewhipped."

Nothing like a little intimidation to liven up my ongoing meditation on a just society. To be threatened with e-mail violence by a Marine Corps major (ret.) steeped in righteousness - wow,...
03 November 2006
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Six weeks after a bloodless military coup destroyed Thailand's democracy, squabbling has erupted among supporters of the putsch, amid worries that corrupt politicians are hiding illegal loot while the ruling junta...
01 November 2006
There's a small college town in New York state called Oneonta.  Some of the students at the state university there organized an event Monday night that had terrific turnout, and for once the crowd at a college political event was made up...
26 October 2006
The White House has arranged to announce two days before the November 7, 2006, elections a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and, no doubt, plans to finally murder him. Meanwhile an appeals process is delaying until at least five days...
20 October 2006
The committee that gave Henry Kissinger the Nobel peace prize has given it this year to Mohammed Yunus, the economist who put the word "microloan" on the map with the Grameen Bank in his native land of Bangladesh. That's progress of a sort...

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