Expectations for the vice-presidential debate had been lowered so much that by the time the candidates took the stage, pundits could spin a win for Sarah Palin out of her managing to speak in...
Governance in my country suffers a tragic death every moment. It is drowned, it is smothered, it is stabbed, it is genetically altered, it is poisoned with sweet candy and it is given the quietest of...
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...
Paul Newman is dead. He died of lung cancer at age 83, at his home in Connecticut. He is survived by his wife, five children, and two grandchildren. He was one of the last of the great old stars, the...
Last week, CNN reporter Campbell Brown called on Republicans to stop being sexist and expose Sarah Palin to the media for open questioning. What Campbell is calling sexism is the benefit of...
Loud silences really don't convey much except a sense of defeat. This is more than apt in case of the historical Khairlanji verdict meted out in a sleepy town in western India, not too far away from...
I have bemoaned the fact that politics these days are all about gloss and image, simple statements and sound bites, with little to no room for complex thought. That it matters more whether a...
I’m not especially versed in politics. I know the basics: things like which amendment grants us the constitutional right to punch dolphins, or who that president was that bit the head off of a bat...
The economic bailout of Wall Street investment banks proposed by the Bush administration is only three pages long. If you click here to read it, you’ll have done more than John McCain apparently...
I find celebrities just a little presumptuous. Not all celebrities, really - mostly just the A-list actors. What bothers me isn’t their posturing, their preening, or their living in giant houses...
