Daily Archive: June 19, 2006

A week ago, when Mexico and Iran were still playing the first half of their World Cup soccer match, gunmen allied with the Islamic courts burst into a tiny theater in the Hiliwaa neighborhood...

So while we were in Barcelona I noticed lots of posters about a nationhood referendum for Catalunya. Apparently it passed, with Catalonia declaring itself a full nation and not just an “autonomous region” of...

No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that this website was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own;...