Most nights, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's pithy commentary is brilliant. Then there are the nights (like yesterday) when it's simp...

To much of the country, the flourescent pinwheel that's slowly looping its way up the weatherman's map represents a disturbance of t...

I cannot do this brilliant Harpers piece justice by blockquoting any part of it: you must simply read it for yourself. After which you wil...

Not that I wasn't fully expecting the White House to make political hay in America while the terrorism sun shone in Britain, but Vice Pr...

It's simple economics: reduce supply, especially in times of increased demand, and you'll push prices--and profits--higher and highe...

Oh dear. David at Quakeragitator has tagged me with the book meme. He must think I like to read or something. 1: One book that changed y...

When reports of actor/director Mel Gibson’s DUI arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic tirade first surfaced, media folk across the world were ...

Yet more Iraq-related lies and cover-ups , the details of which are conveniently released late Friday ? What a surprise: BAGHDAD, Iraq, Ju...

In the past couple of weeks, we've seen and heard a great deal of hand-wringing and emotionally charged rhetoric with regard to the issu...

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously today to renew the Voting Rights Act: WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union applauded the Senat...

Need some good news on this unrelentingly steamy-hot Friday? The subhed of this piece-- Southern conservative efforts on amendments fail -...

When it comes to anger management, Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. (Consider this fairly work-safe, unless of course one is an...

An amazingly tight match, a nailbiting shoot-out, and in the end it's Italy . Won, won.

Unwed teenage mother Maisy is blissed out as her babies--with Marley in the middle--nurse for the tenth time that morning (from July '05...

You can take the footballer out of Italy, but you'll never, ever be able to separate the Italian from his beloved cuisine and culture : ...

What a tangled mess of second-rate barbed wire the whole Minutemen Project / Build it And They Will Turn Back border fence endeavor is turn...

From the afternoon fireworks on the field in Dortmund, Germany, a few thousand miles away, to the spectacular nighttime ones that lit up th...

Clockwise, from top left: Marley, Helena, Lance, Michael, Shaniqua (hiding under Michael's paws) and White Socks Last fall, my hard driv...

He's Marley, he's Marley, He's awesome and he's gnarly! He's black and white and cute; He wears a furry birthday suit. H...

Luca Toni adds two amazing goals to Gianluca Zambrotta's early one and secures Italy's place in the semi-final Viva Italia! The Azz...