“Today, there are new claims about other ways we are tracking down al Qaeda to prevent attacks on America,” Bush said.The government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval. Third, the intelligence activities I authorized are lawful and have been briefed to appropriate members of Congress, both […]

Wendy Goodman lives in Greenfield, MA and just returned from Haiti, where she opened a community arts center in 2003. She explained the difficulties of trying to make progress in a country such as Haiti, where mistrust of outsiders and strict class boundries are so sharp. She was interviewed in […]

David Andelman wrote a tribute in Forbes about the Timesman who just passed away this week. The Times takes a lot of flack, but Abe Rosenthal was a class act. “After three months of total immersion in Vietnamese at Berlitz, I was heading to Saigon as a newly minted foreign […]

Gawker is the biggest of all blogs. Some of their sticky features explain why. I was just browsing on their Gawker Stalker page. There every day, they chronicle where readers have run into stars. All of the stars you’d think they would log the comings and goings of, from Lucy […]

Craig Silverman writes in the Toronto Globe and Mail about a pair of porn magnates. “As he hoovers his way through a pack of cigarettes, McAlear explains how he went from working stiff to porn king. He was a mechanical engineer at Bell Helicopter when he introduced his wife to […]

Today is a big day. Nathaniel Javier Cosme turns ONE! It was exactly one year ago, I was basking in the nude at D’Anza Springs Resort in the California desert, and Kate called me with the big news. I ws thrilled for her then and remain in love with my […]