Author: mike

Fox “News” threatened to sue Fox TV over Simpsons parody. Pointless news crawls up 37 per cent… Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at foxnews.com… Rupert Murdoch: Terrific dancer… Dow down 5,000 points… Study:...

I see the UK Commons voted to downgrade Cannabis from class B to class C (316 for/160 against). Possession of cannabis is now generally not an arrestable offence and ranked alongside non-prescribed bodybuilding steroids...

I was with Lisa in Manhattan for the past few days visiting my Dad. On the way back I had a window seat. I noted on the LCD panel that the plane was cruising...

Fred Kaplan over at Slate also realized the weirdness of comparing Iraq to the Philippines.

So I read that Bush is comparing Iraq to the Philippines, saying that if the US could “bring about” democracy there, it could do the same for Iraq. Hmmm, given that the US occupation...

The world’s largest study into the effects of prayer on patients undergoing heart surgery has found it appears to make no difference. The MANTRA study, run from Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina,...

When the results of his DNA test came back, he found himself staggered … Joseph was 57 percent Indo-European, 39 percent Native American, 4 percent East Asian and zero percent African. After a lifetime...

So how does the Pentagon’s Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, really feel about Muslims? I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my...

Fear triggers the strict father model; it tends to make the model active in one’s brain. What conservatives have learned about winning elections is that they have to activate the strict father model in...

Even the snows of Kilimanjaro are vanishing. “The mountain’s ice field, which Ernest Hemingway called ‘as wide as all the world, great, high and unbelievably white in the sun,’ lost more than 80 percent...