Life is like a hazy mirror
We’ll never know why some parts of the human family get more than their share of natural disasters such as tsunamis.
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Hamilton Spectator
Elizabeth to Santa: sing every day
Merry Christmas, don’t get too busy, and remember: don’t eat too many cookies, because you still have to get around next year.
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America enters a minefield
I hate politics. You can’t trust anyone. I mean, if I was Maqtada Al-Sadr, the dangerously political Shiite cleric who’s jostling for position in Iraq now, I wouldn’t trust my grandmother.
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Independent reasoning is at stake
If we are in a so-called war of civilizations, the biggest battlefields may not be in places like Iraq but in the classroom.
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Press freedom a bitter battle in Third World
Ever wonder why you don’t live in a George Orwell novel, a place where up is down if the right person says it’s so; a place that sooner or later, like a rotten empire, will always implode under the weight of its own self-deceit?
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In Yemen, Einstein tops ‘Booosh’
George Bush and rival John Kerry could both have picked up a few good tips from the wild-haired genius.
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Women and Islam
It’s no wonder that so many folks from Muslim nations want to emigrate to western nations.
Islam at crossroads in Yemen
Yemen is the cradle of Islam. But it’s not Iraq. Bullets aren’t falling like rain. Nobody is getting beheaded. It’s no Disneyland, but, besides the white-knuckle driving, most days pass without terror.
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