4 firefighters shot, 2 dead in upstate N.Y.

The procedural defeat of that horrible constitutional amendment is just the beginning. The religious whack jobs that have been pushing it are digging in for a long fight. I swear to you, reading about the fundamentalist  [more...]

One of the nagging talking points the Bush administration has harped on since September 11th is the ridiculous contention that “no one could have imagined” that someone would hijack a plane and fly it into a  [more...]

Here’s the third bizarre occurrence that greeted me on my return home: ants. I found a line of them marching across the countertop in the kitchen. I tried desperately to trace where they were coming from —  [more...]