Ah, the speed (and the greed, and the need, indeed) of capitalism! [thanks to Gary Mittin]

All the cool kids are doing it. Are you…?

All the cool kids are doing it. Are you…?

“Peace finally has a chance,” writes James Robbins in The National Review. “On Monday, President Bush announced a bold initiative for Israeli/Palestinian reconciliation, setting forth conditions that should have been set long ago. In so doing, he implicitly rejected the framework established by the 1993 Oslo Accords, and emphasized one point in particular — Yasser Arafat has got to go.” Okay. But the question is, does Arafat know this. His

“Here’s hoping that the rest of ‘Moral Clarity Week’ has a bit more clarity”: Law prof Jeff Cooper (himself a left leaner) takes the time to graciously answer brave morality soldier MaxSpeak (champion of the “See? They did it, too!” school of ethical argument) on his charges that advocates of Israel don’t spend enough time vilifying examples of Israeli brutality. Me, I’m done with silly equivalency arguments like Max’s. With

In his Nation commentary, “The Truth on Warming,” Mark Hertsgaard examines the U.S. Climate Action Report 2002 for evidence Bush administration malfeasanse. Noting that “the report could not have been released with less fanfare: It was simply posted on the EPA’s website, three unguided links in from the homepage. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d never find it” — Hertsgaard goes on to uncover in it “crucial but awkward

In his Nation commentary, “The Truth on Warming,” Mark Hertsgaard examines the U.S. Climate Action Report 2002 for evidence Bush administration malfeasanse. Noting that “the report could not have been released with less fanfare: It was simply posted on the EPA’s website, three unguided links in from the homepage. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d never find it” — Hertsgaard goes on to uncover in it “crucial but awkward

For those of you still interested in the plight of heavyset folk vis-a-vis airplane seats (and other slights against “people of size”), you might check out Stephen Hayes’ “The Girth of a Nation.” Me, I’m gonna chew on Dubya’s speech for a bit. I’m hopin’ that after further mastication the whole thing’s won’t prove as difficult to swallow as did that one bit about Arab-Muslim culture being a culture of

Yasir Arafat claims that he was born in Jerusalem, but he was actually born in Cairo. He claims to belong to the prominent Jerusalem family of Husseini, but he is at best only distantly related to it. He claims that he turned down a chance to go to the University of Texas, but according to one biographer, the Palestinian-born writer Sa