What desperation, anguish and confusion compels a beautiful, educated young women to blow herself up, taking out twenty one other with her? What horror was witnessed, what hope diminished, what possibility snuffed out? There will never be peace in the Middle East as long as we ignore the reality of what is happening, silence enlightening opinions, or refuse, point balnk, to even try to understand. -- January 29, 2004

David Grossman says of Ariel Sharon's Wall: "It is yet another precipitate action aimed at giving the Israeli public a temporary illusion of security; its main effect will be to supply Israelis with a counterfeit replacement for a peace process." Given how well Walls have worked in the past, Ariel Sharon may ultimately be for peace what Saddam Hussein was for democracy. The bigger question, as always, is who pays? -- January 2004

Trying Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity should prove entertaining reality television. So fear not! This holiday season will have more than enough jam-packed entertainment to keep you going if you get bored trying to count dead soldiers in spite of the ban on images of their return home in coffins. -- December 19, 2003

"When the heat got on, you dug yourself a hole and you crawled in it." Mr. Bush said of deposed dictator, Saddam Hussein, upon his capture. Of course the hole through which White House spews shit, and the deeper hole in which the treasonous leakers languish remains as gaping as the hole in which Dick Cheney's energy task force is hiding. -- December 16, 2003