Posted by Unknown | 7:41 PM

Much of Bush's State of the Union speech was what we've come to expect - monotonous defenses of the Iraq war and the administration...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:49 PM

Hi, my small but loyal band of readers! I was just thinking today (weren't we all?) that I could use an extra 17 cents. I could also use...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:01 AM

What do we liberals think about income inequality? This question has dogged me for years. On one hand, it just seems wrong that business ow...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:24 AM

If you haven't heard about the rise of China and India, I have one question for you: How do you get your internet connection while livin...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:44 PM

There goes the neighborhood. Hamas has won the Arab world's freest and fairest election in a landslide, and the entire fury of the unit...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:05 PM

My dad spent over twenty-four years living in a medium-sized Texas town chock full of lower-middle-class Southern white people. With great r...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:10 PM

Canada has elected a "conservative" prime minister . Stephen Harper intends to join Bush's missile defense initiative, slow go...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:46 PM

One of the main reasons that Americans may not condemn international jihadism (radical Islam, Wahabbism, bin Ladenism, take your pick) as st...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:13 AM

So much for Takafumi Horie . Japan's #1 internet mogul never really invented anything or made anything new - his company is basically a ...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:23 PM

It's a strange fact of life that politics in the tiny proto-micro-anarcho-state of Palestine should obsess America's public sphere ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:18 PM

Update on the continuing attempts of the Bush Administration to scrap our system of checks and balances in favor of a supreme executive: The...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:15 PM

Here's something to think about... A list of approximate yearly death tolls of Americans: Civil War (both sides) - 139,500 World War 2 -...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:35 PM

Having lived in an Asian country for two years now, I can say with some authority that, in general, East Asian countries haven't thought...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:40 PM

I disagree with most of the nitty-gritty particulars of this article on progressive politics . But the overarching message - that "prog...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:08 AM

If you are in the mood to have a chill run down your spine, don't go see Hostel ...just read this column by Harvard professor Harvey Ma...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:25 PM

I think bloggers, even not-quite-up-to-the-minute ones like myself, are frowned upon if they don't include links in every post. However,...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:01 PM

Enough about love and peace for the moment. Let's talk about propaganda. In this edition of his famous "Talking Points" seg...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:20 PM

Happy New Year to all 3 of you loyal readers of my blog! And what better way to ring in the new year than to point out the fact that the Ear...

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