Music: Mali
Last week at the Human Rights Watch dinner in Santa Barbara a band of African musicians brought together by the …
Category Archives: General
Vietnam: Lost Diary
President Bush, so reluctant in body while so bloody in mind back then, and so eager to give us history …
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 …
CO2: Not Good
“…despite efforts to reduce carbon emissions, the global growth rate of CO2 was 3.2% between 2000 and 2005 compared to …
Merchants of Hate
“Hate merchants: Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, Coulter, Beck, Savage, Ingraham and their ilk poison the airwaves and do the GOP’s dirty …
John Hope Frankin Reviews Our History
“Hate merchants: Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, Coulter, Beck, Savage, Ingraham and their ilk poison the airwaves and do the GOP’s dirty …
Afghanistan: The New Air War
Afghanistan of course continues to descend, once again, into terror both from native sources of Talibanism and Warlordism and the …
Terrorism: Unreported
It sure seems strange to me that this little episode has gone widely unreported. Last month, one Barbara March, a …
Government: Choke It Tight and Often
On the day of foot-long obituaries for Milton Friedman the grandfather of “free markets make free people” it is appropriate …
Webbian Populism
Aplogies for light posting recently. Several piles of work that demand both early mornings and late evenings. In the interim …
Habeus Corpus: Bring it Back!
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) introduced legislation today that would, among other things, restore the right of habeus corpus to detainees… …