“There ought to be limits to freedom.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #122: OWStanding
“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into […]
Rwanda Diary: Hutu and Tutsi – what's in a name?
by Hannah Frantz Before I came to Rwanda, I spent a week following The New Times, Rwanda’s online newspaper, to get a sense for where the country is today. The impression that I reached […]
The lesson that bin Laden learned from Reagan
There is a particular narrative about Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War that has always struck me as compelling. I bought the argument at the time and I think […]
Send The D-bags To War (video)
By Lee Camp follow me at http://www.Twitter.com/LeeCamp
Nota Bene #118: VOTE!
“I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.” Who said it?
Review: Dying City by Christopher Shinn

“This city is dying and we are the ones killing it,” writes Craig, a U.S. soldier stationed in Abu Ghraib, in an e-mail to his twin brother, Peter. But Craig’s statement is […]
Et tu, Buddha? Rationalizing violence in Buddhism
Buddhist teachers — Eastern and Western alike — who sleep with their students have left a trail of human wreckage in their wake.
Redefining "pragmatism"
Ole Robert Gibbs sure let the cat out of the bag, didn’t he? Take that hippies, and by hippies i mean everyone to the left of and including Richard Milhous Nixon. Not […]
Nota Bene #115: RIP No. 32
“If you’re really pro-life, do me a favor—don’t lock arms and block medical clinics. If you’re so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.” Who said it?