all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime last April, Iraq’s resuscitated oil industry has been unable to produce enough gasoline, cooking oil and other petroleum products to meet the country’s needs. Houston-based Halliburton Co.,...
One of the most astute commentators on the Middle East, Edward Said died today of leukemia. I will miss his insight, and the looney racist desperation of his detractors. Aside from the obvious physical...
Apparently there seems to be only two degrees between me and DJ Rap, AKA Charissa Saverio, on Friendster. The Ultimate Lip Liner Junglist. This is weird. I wonder if it’s for real? Suzanne thinks...
Toxoplasmosis is the name of a syndrome caused by a particularly clever protozoan parasite toxoplasma gondii that although it can affect many mammals including humans, it can only sexually reproduce in the guts of...
This is a very bad thing. The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up … Only 100 years ago the whole northern coast of Ellesmere Island,...
Last week, Milwaukee police found 130 felines and a dog in house where trash and cat feces was found up to 3 feet deep … The house’s owner died in 1997, but the woman’s...
How is Afghanistan doing? In a series of extraordinary reports, the latest published in July, Human Rights Watch has documented atrocities “committed by gunmen and warlords who were propelled into power by the United...
So I was wondering why, almost alone amongst “civilised” nations, the US somehow managed to avoid having its Head of State directly condemn the slaughter of Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh. Instead they produced...