When the fifteen hours of Ken Burns documentary of World War II is over later this week we can return to the endless Bush Iraq War that is already longer…
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I had just finished saying, sotto voce, to Myo, my guide from Rangoon, that I was surprised at his candor about politics during our dinner at a street-side restaurant when, suddenly, all…
The times have rarely seemed so “biblical” since the times were, well, biblical. Those great, dualistic themes—good and evil, the godly and the diabolical, believers and infidels, heaven and earth,…
Preamble: I don’t even want to write this damn subject anymore. I’m as sick of it as I am of Bush and his stupid war and his American jihadists. Then…
What!? They plan to sculpt the face of Moqtada al Sadr into Mt. Rushmore!? We have heard George Bush say it many times: we must defeat the insrugents and…
I phoned an old friend a few days ago, one I had no spoken to in many years. He was a guy I had played basketball with, and I stumbled…
[Editorial Note: Dear Reader, The author of this piece has provocatively titled it in a manner to appeal to base values and prurient interests. The Office of Morals…
If Bush and Cheney and their intellectually-challenged supporting cast aren’t enough to make you mutinous, then the loyal-to-the-bunker Republican congressman and wimpy Democrats, incompetent bureaucrats, and a Supreme Court with…
On cable’s Military Channel, a scarcely-disguised promo-propaganda organ for the Pentagon and defense industry I am watching a former Navy Seal, handsome, fit and head shaved, like Vin Deisel in some…
Previously, in these pages [No. 42.3] we considered that urban planning might be regarded as a process of getting things (land uses) in the proper places, like getting one’s socks in their…