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Beyond tsunami, need for aid still flows

For countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, buried deep in sub-Saharan Africa, or Colombia, wracked by a decades-long civil war, there are no televised celebrity appeals, charity concerts or official commissions led by ex-presidents like those that sprang up in the wake of the devastating tsunami  More

An exercise in the obvious

Al was right. Bring the troops home.

And soon, before we kill another 10,000 or so innocent human  More

Who really needs an Attorney General, anyway?

It’s too bad position of the Attorney General of the United States is so vital to the legal, moral and psychological health of the country. After all, if it wasn’t so important, maybe we could just do without one for the next four  More

The (really) true meaning of Christmas

Thrust a gaily-colored Christmas cookie in my direction, and you’d probably hear me rant about how ludicrous I thought it was that people got together to celebrate a season of fellowship and kindness only once a  More

Christmas shopping no bargain if we exploit others

Every time we walk into someplace and spend our hard-earned dollars on a cheap product that cut somebody’s wages, took tax dollars away from a classroom or senior citizen’s center, helped support a ruthless, repressive regime or helped keep us from knowing our neighbor a little better, we make a mockery of the ideals of  More

More going on in Fallujah than simple U.S. victory

While it hasn’t been examined in great detail here in the United States, the devastation U.S. forces have wrought in Fallujah seems to be significant. And civilians, perhaps hundreds or thousands of them, have been caught in the  More

The virtuous circle of oil profits and global warming

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Confessions of a political Know-Nothing in the wake of the 2004 elections

I thought that if the person entrusted with the highest office in the land somehow managed to get the country involved in a war it couldn’t win by invading another country with no justification whatsoever, sacrificed American lives for political ideology and revenge, created hostility and hatred for American ideals around the world, and called  More

Ellington asks for advice

That night, the whole second half of the show seemed to be about  More