A river runs through it

Everyone seemed to like my sunrise over the Indian Ocean yesterday, so here is a photo of a river in KwaZulu-Natal. I can't tell you what river, …

Sunrise over KwaZulu-Natal

I'm just back from South Africa, a memorable trip. I will have to tell you later what I was doing there, but in the meantime here is a view of th…

Libya

I can't really add much to what others are saying on this issue, except perhaps to say that the revolutions sweeping the Arab world once again sh…

Thomas Friedman, international sage

There is a devastating parody of Friedman's latest column in the New York Times on the blog Inanities , and I recommend that you read it right…

TIAA-CREF: Divest from the Israeli occupation

Are your retirement funds with TIAA-CREF? If so, please sign Jewish Voice for Peace's petition urging this financial services giant to stop inve…

Egypt supports Wisconsin

U.S. hypocrisy on Israeli settlements

I have a fantasy. I am fantasizing that the reason the government of Bahrain has withdrawn its troops from Pearl Square in the capital, Manama, is b…

Curtis Cost: A danger to the African-American community

I don't post often about the AIDS denialist movement--those who argue that HIV does not cause AIDS--but a particularly egregious example of the d…

I shall sup from your skull

Some people, such as the Aghori sect of India, still do this today. As I report today  on Science 's online news service, the practice of making …

Hillary Clinton, Egyptian constitutional scholar

The Obama administration, led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has been telling us for days that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak shouldn'…