Why aren't I grateful to Al Gore for highlighting the environment? Simply put, he overdid it. Stopping a rainforest from being decimated is still subordinate to stopping genocide.
Yes, we all want to win, and no, none of us enjoy losing. But the price we're prepared to pay for our victories is that which will determine our essential character. Everywhere you look in sports today character is second to victory.
How is it that Englewood, New Jersey, which has thousands of prominent Jewish residents and an estimated 700 orthodox Jewish families, simply accepts the presence of the Libyan mission to the UN in its midst?
Lest you conclude that Tom Friedman has lost all sense of morality and has lost the ability to condemn murder, he does confess that Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah "had some dark side." Well now, Tom, you don't say. Really?
Not sure whether Americans are becoming more materialistic and self-absorbed? Look no further than Time magazine's recent carnival of narcissism and celebration of selfishness.
