I was chatting with a neighbor this morning about the used birth control device some other neighbor tossed into my back yard. She remarked "and just when things were starting to look up..." "They are!" I said. " The gross nail salon next door is gone!" "I saw! They...

A neighbor of mine, Hrag Vartanian, writes today in his blog about the NYT's Nicholas Kristof's Iraq Poetry Contest. One entry that particularly moved him was by a fourth grader from the South Bronx whose father apparently was killed in Iraq. I wonder what young...

John Edwards wants to draft you and/or your children. Maybe we can opt out of military service by volunteering for hairdressing duty?

Today is my day off; I wasn't even planning on looking at the news, but it's on my Google page and when I opened my browser, there it was: "Israeli Riddle: Love Jerusalem, Hate Living There". I'll be brief, as the article speaks for itself. The article starts out...

I can't even think of any modern antiwar pop music, actually, I just know of a few songs that have lamely hurled juvenile denunciations at Bush like little wet boogers. Pink has continued the tradition of crappy lyrics that try to hit home and fail. It's not all bad...

We've had a lot of people asking why we would run this article from the New York Times on Somalia. Well, we're not ones to crush news, and quotes like this: Omar Hussein Ahmed, an olive oil exporter in Mogadishu, the capital, said he and a group of fellow traders...

Nearly every day there's a story about Bush or some other official (not to mention the embarrassingly ridiculous John McCain) claiming sectarian violence is dropping, Baghdad is safer, Iraq is "making progress." But periodically throughout the war, usually when there...

Wait, again? The Traffic Blockers aren't really thinking of using this tired old tactic again, are they? You know, the idiots who made Americans in cars and buses side with George Bush during the run-up to the attack on Iraq by sitting in the middle of or otherwise...

Is Palestine a high school full of tantrum-throwing teenagers? I don't know why I'm only now compelled to bitch about this odd situation wherein Israel will not stop sanctioning, roadblocking, kidnapping, squatting on, shooting, and bombing the Palestinians and their...

Has anyone in Africa paid attention to the last 4 years of international news? If so, then why, seeing the unrelenting destruction of Iraq over the years by the United States and its allies, would anyone, let alone human rights activists, complain that the United...