Sarah Palin: The Female Dan Quayle
"Dan Quayle in a pantsuit." That's what I thought the minute I found out that Sarah Palin will be the Vice Presidential nominee on the Republican ticket with John McCain. She's young, she has been...
Category: Themes
The Damned, The Birth of the Demons
The previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's tale is here. We, the Demons, came to this world like this: Thousands of years ago, there were Angels. They were the guardians of the world, when...
Hand Cat Wife
Dear Readers, please note that this story is meant to be contained within a single paragraph. How to begin. That is the difficulty. There are always innumerable points of entry. And the point of...
Joe Biden, American racism, and optimism
I must admit my first reaction to Joe Biden being chosen as Obama's running mate was “meh.” I’ve had running debates over Joe Biden with a friend for most of the primary season. She loves him,...
Election 2008: race is more than black and white
In the current American presidential election, race has become a pivotal issue. Obama is the first African American man to have a legitimate chance of becoming president of the United States. Blacks...
Cold War revisited: “The Thing”
As certain factions speculate that the world is headed toward a new Cold War, Mark Farnsworth examines the artistic legacy of this phenomenon. "The Thing" is the darkest film in the Kurt Russell...
On the passing of a hip hop icon
Today marks the passing of an artist and a legend. Some of us were able to call him our brother, or our son. Another five people called him husband. But one thing we could all call him was......
Richard Dawkins, and the failure of the faith and atheism debate
I was motivated to write this article by two conversations I over-heard in a cafe. The first one took place between a group of Christian students who were busily 'denouncing' evolution – it was the...
On race and being a British teen
“Kischan you Asian!” is the phrase most likely to be heard during a sixth form “Asians against Caucasians” football match at my fairly innocuous school located just outside of London. Far...
The War: diary from Georgia
August 6th For a little more than a week I’ve been out of town with the family. Myself, my lady, and the kid are not very far from Tbilisi, in Narekvavi village. It’s an hour of driving, less if...