News & Politics

Shit – how am I going to explain to the JFK guys that all those flights between Cairo and Istanbul was only because I needed to use my miles to get back to the States?

Ah, pandering to the lowest common denominator to your most rabid supporters.  With no fear of opposing views, the Bush-Cheney axis of tragi-comic-politic can finally resort to their age old just 'cry wolf' and gay bashing tactics, with golden morsels like: "However they put

Great article on the Middle East from the Foreign Affairs.  An excerpt: Just over two centuries since Napoleon's arrival in Egypt heralded the advent of the modern Middle East -- some 80 years after the demise of the Ottoman Empire, 50 years after the end of colonialism, and less

Couple of grenades tossed into a Turkish cafe in Izmir – about two weeks from where I was on this jaunt. Ah. Where next? Fun times.

Well, golly. I didn't know that God was a Republican. And that he favors and talks to bigots and medicine men!

For all the stories that get press, from political to celebrity to athlete stupidities – this one looks to have a major impact on how the human condition will develop in the next decade.