Brit Hume has the temerity to suggest that Valerie Plame lied under oath.  She did, of course.  So John Amato says: I was waiting for this: Hume says Plame lied under oath HUME: And the other thing that needs to be noted here is when she says that she had nothing to do with getting her husband the trip, that flies in the face of the evidence adduced by the

By popular demand. Hold forth on your opinions/techniques and recipes.  Try not to be abusive.

While I’m nobody’s grillmaster general, I’m hoping that my new Blue Ember gas grill—complete with infrared rotisserie function and smoker box—will allow me spin a pig in such a way that I will no longer be ashamed to invite my Samoan / Hawaiian friends over for dinner. Which, in addition to healing a lot of old social wounds, will almost certainly keep us up to our flowered necklaces in poi

****************Now with Fucking-“a”!!!!!***************** Resilient Iraqis ask what civil war? DESPITE sectarian slaughter, ethnic cleansing and suicide bombs, an opinion poll conducted on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq has found a striking resilience and optimism among the inhabitants. The poll, the biggest since coalition troops entered Iraq on March 20, 2003, shows that by a majority of two to one, Iraqis prefer the current

I’m not sure what my perfect first date would be. Maybe a glass of seltzer with lime and a night researching medical symptoms on the internet? Then he could move some of my furniture around and fix my computer. Or, even better: I’d be invited over to a man’s house for a game of Scrabble. We’d get into an argument over whether or not a word was legal and then

New York Times March 15, 2007 Op-Ed Contributor The Biased Broadcasting Corporation By FRANK H. STEWART Jerusalem LAST summer, the Archbishop of Algeria remarked to this newspaper that when satellite dishes first appeared in Algeria, they were typically positioned to receive French broadcasts. Now the majority receive programming from the Persian Gulf. “If you watch Western television, you live in one universe,” said the archbishop, “and if you watch Middle