Kittens for Jesus

Recently I've been thinking about intelligence, how to define it - or not - and the implications of being labeled on a scale of intellig...

Since time immemorial, when human conflict has been involved, the guy with the bigger stick/rock/sling/army/gun has usually commanded a grea...

Some hill in the Jemez. I like the clouds. A chile light on the Christmas tree. Some of those tiny yellow berries that they tell you not to...

The question of humanitarian intervention will probably be the defining issue in international politics in this century. It is an issue that...

With the recent developments in the "corruption" cases of Bill Richardson, Rod Blagojevich, Manny Aragon, and many, many other pol...

WARNING: The following post may contain technical terms that you will have to Google.  If you think your computer is run by magic faeries an...

To avoid any awkward confusion upfront, "metrication" is defined as "rewriting something in such a way that it is indecipher...

Today, the United Nations is obsessed with consensus.  The ultimate goal of every debate on every issue is to reach a consensus.  Member nat...

This past Saturday on KUNM , Radio Theatre played a PRX piece by Marjorie Van Halteren about the World Wars and the War in Iraq from the ...

I can't believe this . Maybe I should have foreseen massive resistance to the election of the first black President in history, but I n...

This series of posts, "Re-examining the Election," will be my "super-post" about the election that I promised.  Tonight ...

As a general rule, you don't make fun of yourself on national television until after  you've lost an election.  John McCain seems no...