Fiddling While the World Burns
I understand the question of “standing” in legal thought. The person complaining has to have something to do with what …
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Save Us From Such Christians
It’s hard to know where to begin when an advertisement like this appears on the Op-Ed pages of the NY …
School of Assassins
While thousands were battling over the purchase of an expensive toy all over the US of A, more than 22,000 …
Environment: Can Do
There is plenty to be worried about these days, of course. The shelling from the rich, the greedy, the obtuse, …
Environment: Can Do
There is plenty to be worried about these days, of course. The shelling from the rich, the greedy, the obtuse, …
Darwin To Blame for Terrorism
If only this were just a sketch on the Daily Show. A lavishly illustrated “Atlas of Creation” is mysteriously turning …
Iraq: Wretched
There is no end to the carnage in Iraq. Juan Cole reports…. A string of car bombings in Sadr City …
Music: Mali
Last week at the Human Rights Watch dinner in Santa Barbara a band of African musicians brought together by the …
Vietnam: Lost Diary
President Bush, so reluctant in body while so bloody in mind back then, and so eager to give us history …
Reflections on “Bobby” & Humans Rights Watch
In some part as a celebration after the elections, Lexie and I drove down to Santa Barbara to visit cousins …
Afghanistan: The New Air War – 2
I thought the other day when I posted links to the rising air attacks in Afghanistan that the US Navy …
Religion and Science: The Awkward Silence
Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter for the New York Times and author of several very fine …