At the start of the decade, most of us believed that only chimpanzees might come anywhere near our wonderful human intellect, but by 2010 we realize that dogs, birds, monkeys, and elephants also challenge the human-animal divide.
Jingle Bells // Sarah sells // Now she's got a book // Truth? Or lies? // While she tries and tries // To be worth a second look. // Oh, the weather outside is frightful // And the GOP is spiteful
Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10th, and his acceptance speech, a forum in which legendary statemen...
Norway's venerable Nobel Foundation, responding to what it calls "an international epidemic of incivility, disrespect, and, for sure, stinko behavior" today announced it was establishing an annual Pissed Prize.
Republicans were supposedly leaps and bounds behind at that time of the election, but after a year's worth of execution on the part of both parties, it now looks like the space could be anyone's to own.
Theodore Roosevelt, a magnanimous, larger-than-life President who won a Nobel Peace Prize during wartime and spoke eloquently -- though not necessaril...
As year one ends for Obama and the world it may be that this is the end of the beginning, and that more innovative and far thinking policies are ahead that would deserve a Nobel prize. Or it may just mean more of the same.
Following in the rhetorical wake of Barack Obama is like being the clean-up crew after the Imperial cavalry have passed. A disagreeable but necessary duty in the interests of public health.
I scanned Obama's text for invocations of democratic consent from the Afghan people for more troops, more compassionate war. Isn't this supposed to be part of our mix here? But no luck.
Theodore Roosevelt won the Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and Japanese to the negotiating table to end the bloody Russo-Japanese War. In fact, Roosevelt did little to abet peace.
Having an idea and taking a small action has the power to change your life. You have the power to take an action that can make a huge difference. What is a problem that you see a solution for?
We have a different rationale for starting a business. And because we are different, we also bring in new perspectives.
Dreams from My Father had received a few impressive blurbs and favorable reviews, but had sold only a few thousand copies, so had been out of print for years.
I'm going to lie down on a psychoanalyst's couch, preferably one made of soft baseball glove leather, and sort out my Yankee feelings. Hand me that baseball autographed by Sandy Koufax, will you?
There are the real wars to win in Latin America. Against poverty and tyranny, against ecological depredation and the marginalization of the indigenous peoples and their wisdom.
With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.
I've been trying to track down English translations of poems by Herta Muller, the newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, but they are awfully hard to come by (if they even exist).
By giving hope to the millions of disfranchised, the poor and the angry in Middle East, Asia and Africa, Obama has begun to drain the swamp in which extremist groups operate and recruit.
I have to admit before I begin that I don't watch cable television "news" during the day, because I consider it largely to be a waste of my valuable t...
Missing from a recent Times article on American victims of Agent Orange, was a single mention of the far larger number of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam: the Vietnamese.
