Time for Obama and Dems to Start Looking for a Shovel

After the rip-roaring Q&A with House Republicans late last month, President Obama has called on Congressional Democrats and Republicans to hash out their differences on health care reform–live on television. The health care summit is scheduled for February 25th. Republicans are trying to get…

New York City has lost its soul. If this is an argument that you’ve already read and talked about to death, do not turn to Sharon Zukin’s latest offering. But, if this seems like a good jumping off point for an inquiry into the last fifty years of New York’s changing cityscape, Naked…

Aside from the premature canonization of Peyton Manning and the more deserved immortalizing of Kim Kardashian’s ass, the big story during Super Bowl week was the specter of Tim Tebow and his mother starring in a pro-life propaganda commercial sponsored by the Colorado-based evangelical…

“God is the one who called us to come here,” one woman explains to the interviewer in a recent CNN piece about the ten American Baptists stuck down in a Haitian jail after trying to transport 33 children out of the country. And while the video leaves the impression that certainly the group…

Over the past year, ‘discovery’ (or the ‘art of finding people and articles of interest on the web) has gotten both easier and more difficult. Easier in the sense than there are now many more tools to sort through the so-called ‘noise’. Harder in the sense that the entire free world has…

The new and rediscovered Wallace stuff just keeps coming. Check out this interview from 2003 (hat tip to htmlgiant) that is in ten parts. I’ll only post the first two here, the links to the rest should come up at the end of the video.

I have the cover story in this week’s Review section of the Abu Dhabi National, on the saga of Salah Ezzedine, the “Lebanese Bernie Madoff,” and the implications of that scandal on Hezbollah’s relationship with its Shia base.

Here’s the start, but jump over to The National to read the whole…

Video games and nostalgia have a love/hate relationship. In the right circumstances, you could easily find an argument between two grown men about whether the SEGA Genesis or the Super Nintendo was the better console, or which…