Earlier this week, many Ukrainians were outraged that President Yuschenko did not appear to be doing enough to solve the present gas spat between Russia and Ukraine. Although reports vary, some place...
To anybody that was in the 6th grade with me: if the cherished memory of your very first school dance was tainted when you inexplicably got hit in the face with a chicken finger, that was me. I can...
"...What light through yonder window breaks?" The world is changing. Well, it is, in fact, always in a state of flux, but no more is it evident than on days like today. Before he died, Tupac Shakur...
In the final hours of this marathon election, all the polls are predicting an Obama victory. Whether this outcome is confirmed or not, the Republican party is in need of some serious soul-searching....
Tom Brokaw was on Charlie Rose the other day and he said that Barack Obama could be our first "postmodern" president. Brokaw admitted that the didn't know what postmodernism was, but whatever it was,...
As the McCain campaign's desperate attempts to paint Barack Obama as all but a "domestic terrorist" have elicited cries of "kill him!" from the lynch mo... *cough* the adoring crowd, McCain's own...
Should McCain defeat Obama in the US Presidential election, the world will descend into a state of mass depression. Political and psychological despair piling on top of the worst global economic...
A lot of people want a New Cold War. After all, the War on Terror is just too confusing and troublesome and, let's face it, terrifying. Poker-faced Soviet villains had hot side-kicks. Hollywood loved...
This is a special edition of this column. Here are two things you ought to know about the conflict flaring up between Russia and Georgia: First of all, Russia does not want NATO on her doorstep, and...
It feels instinctive to say that the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn marks an end of an era. Which era, though? Solzhenitsyn's life spanned many eras: WWII, the gulag, the Khrushchev years,...
