Leonard Cohen is on the European stretch of his world tour , and of course Balter's Blog was on the scene when he played at Bercy in Paris last n…
Read moreI was down in the Lot Valley (southern France) the past few days, so lagging behind--as this blog often does--the 24 hour news cycle. But I have been…
Read moreA friend of mine in Los Angeles has just brought to my attention a scurrilous column published in the L.A. Weekly late last month, authored by Mich…
Read moreThis drawing accompanies an article in today's issue of Le Monde (dated 3 July) relating how employers in the U.S. are lowering salaries to dea…
Read moreA couple of days ago, Times science writer Gina Kolata, who was filling in for John Tierney on his blog TiernyLab, linked to a report by the organ…
Read moreThose old enough to remember the original "Saturday Night Live" show from the 1970s will remember this signature line from Franken. But you…
Read moreThat's the conclusion of the International Committee of the Red Cross in a new report released today . You can read a summary and download the pd…
Read moreThe Obama administration is considering issuing an executive order that would allow so-called "preventive detention" of terrorism suspects…
Read moreNewsweek science writer Sharon Begley pens an often wickedly funny critique of evolutionary psychology this week, and I blog about it briefly on Sc…
Read moreI know I'm coming in late on this, but I gather that the right-wing blogosphere has been going bananas because President Barack Obama took his …
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