At the end of the last glaciation, the ice sheets that covered much of the Northern Hemisphere disappeared in a matter of a few thousand yearsa surprisingly short time, considering how long it had...

The U.S. has refused to reaffirm the 13 steps toward nuclear disarmament it agreed to in 2000, or allow discussion of Israel’s nuclear status … Critics pointed out that during the monthlong conference, the...

I read that the French voting public are unexpectedly close to a “Non!” on the proposed EU Constitution… There’s generally a democratic deficit in the enlargement of an empire. Expansion of a political territory...

Fresh from his accountability moment, Tony Blair is tackling some of the thorniest issues facing British society: criminalising “hoodies” and baseball caps while keeping marijuana decriminalised (despite a “get tough” pre-election stance). In the...

One of my oldest and best friends, Niall De Barra, is getting married. Hopefully, this datum will pop up on Google before the explosive vomiting refrerence…

So what do you do when you’ve paid surgeons to cut into your flesh and insert abiotic augmentations of dubious merit, and now you find that your unnaturally proportioned body is now unsuitable for...

Paul has a blog.

It is reality TV of sorts, a show called ”Terrorism in the Grip of Justice.” It features detainees confessing to various crimes … and has quickly become a nationwide hit. It is on every...

Iraqi special forces soldiers Ali Jabbar and Mohammed Ali insist they mete out justice fairly. They beat only the prisoners they know did something wrong, not the innocent ones. In March, when a rocket...

The city of Dover in Pennsylvania has now mandated that all biology teachers should teach intelligent design (Christian creationism in drag) as fact. I’ve never really understood why fundies are so eager to get...