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The Holiday’s So Bright, I’ve Gotta Wear Shades
If you're going to spend Christmas in Florida, forget the lights and embrace the humidity
Impressions
True Love for Losers
Now is the time to celebrate the Chicago Cubs' gloriously unmatched century of futility
From Minneapolis to Washington:
For New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, the world is divided into the reasonable and the unreasonable: the people you can sit down and talk to, and the loose cannon outliers who must be contained
Batting for the Winning Team
As expected, the sacking of Baghdad by victorious coalition forces -- that is America, Great Britain and a handful of Australian and Danish troops -- has moved pro-war commentators to lyrical flights of fancy not witnessed since, say, the liberation of Af
No Ordinary ”Thugs”
Something other than oil is bubbling up out of the sands of the Middle East
Safeguarding the Homeland: A Modest Proposal
Could it be that the 7-Elevens are at the center of a plot to destroy America?
Iraq and the Ghosts of Munich
As a people, we have unmitigated contempt for anything that smacks of appeasement. The problem is that politicians and commentators so frequently misapply ''the lesson of Munich'' to situations where it has little or no relevance
It’s All Part of My Rock and Roll Dream
The phone rings, and it's Ace Frehley, lead guitarist for Kiss. Drowsily, in a voice leaden from heavy drinking, he hits me up for a favor: Fill in for him in an arena concert Kiss is giving that night, only hours away. This is so Ace
Junk Politics and Special Children
Having inserted pharmaceutical ''liability protections'' in the Homeland Security bill, the Republicans now have to face their toughest opponent yet: Parents
Homegrown Terrorism
It is here in Columbus, Ga., as thousands of pacifists march slowly toward the Army base's heavily guarded perimeter, that America's war on terrorism assumes, for me, the purest heights of hypocrisy