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Moiz Syed’s Israeli/Lebanese Coffin Counter pretty much speaks for itself.
America’s unflinching support for Israel is a problematic subject. You can’t question Israel, or our support for Israel, without being tarred with the anti-Semite brush. But at the same time, how can you look at what’s really happened in the Middle East over the [...]

I expect there’s not many of my readers who follow the Tour de France at all (well, except maybe Judy) but looks like we’ve got a new American cycling hero in Floyd Landis. His triumphant ride into Paris for the overall win today is only the end of the story – the [...]

Earlier this week, the Chicago Tribune posted an article discussing Rahm Emanuel’s critique of the Bush administration’s fiscal responsibiltiy in general, and specifically paying $100k a year for a “White House Director of Lessons Learned”.
His remarks were entirely appropriate, I thought, but I was angered to see that there was one comment posted in response:
I [...]

There’s a lot of buzz in the UK at the moment about Patti Farrant, who at 62 just gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
This isn’t the kind of thing that I would normally comment on, at first blush. I read the first announcement, thought to myself “Good on you, Patti” and moved on. [...]

Found via Slashdot: Stephen Hawking has asked a question on Yahoo Questions: how can the human race survive the next 100 years?
This is interesting for a couple of reasons. Of course there’s some novelty in having someone like Stephen Hawking posting on Yahoo Answers. Sort of reminds me of the shocking news a [...]

Here is a well reasoned and thought-provoking piece by Michael Pollan (author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma) on the future of organic foods in the light of Wal-Mart’s announced decision to “go organic” by encouraging suppliers to provide organic alternatives and offering them at only a marginal markup over their conventional equivalents. Superficially this is [...]

It wasn’t enough that Bush had to have his own Vietnam. Now he’s got his own My Lai massacre as well.

The proposal for an ”.xxx” top-level domain was officially rejected by ICANN yesterday, and the word on the net is that ultimately it was pressure from the conservative and religious elements in the US and allies that sank it. The most ironic thing about the situation though is that, were this TLD to be [...]

just when you thought it was safe to go back into the confessional…

This is… just sickening, when you think about it.
The bottom line of the article – right here in my adopted hometown, one of the most liberal cities in the country, the military – either by accident or by design – courted, tested, recruited, and then repeatedly defended the enlistment of a “moderately to severely autistic” [...]