Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts, one of the best photographers of the last half of the 20th Century has passed away. For years, you couldn't pick up a copy of Rolling Stone without seeing some Ritts photos....
Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
Savage Stupidity
I don't usually listen to much talk radio, but I accidentally found myself sucked into a few minutes of Michael Savage's show yesterday around 11:40 pm. I know better than to listen to such...
2003, A Space Odyssey
Alan Boyle of MSNBC reports on The coming year on the final frontier: EARTHLY QUESTIONS dogged most of the developments having to do with space during the past year: Would cosmic ambitions have to...
Nonstandard Deviations
Cathy Young in Reason on Nonstandard Deviations: It's amazing to think that in the United States in the 21st century, you can get arrested for something you do in your bedroom with a willing...
How did Iraq get it’s weapons?
Neil Mackay and Felicity Arbuthnot of the Sunday Herald report on How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them: Reports by the US Senate's committee on banking, housing and urban affairs — which...
Casey Lartigue on Limbaugh
Received the following message from Casey Lartigue: Cato's education policy analyst Casey Lartigue, Jr. will be interviewed by guest host Walter Williams on Rush Limbaugh's radio show on Thursday, December 26 at 1 p.m....
Jeremy Lott on Trent
Jeremy Lott on the, umm, thing about his last name: In the late '80s, ads for Domino's Pizza featured a character called the Noid. The costumed claymation creation — in a red costume with...
Format Askew
Over the last two days, my MT database corrupted and I've been forced to import all my entries all over again. Jim Henley knows the deal. Fortunately, I had a good export and no...
Saskatchewan Indian Official Approves of Holocaust
David Ahenakew, a Senator with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) and a former chief of the Assembly of First Nations made these shocking comments at a FSIN meeting last Friday: "The Jews...
Would Baghdad fall quickly?
Thomas E. Ricks, writing for The Washington Posts asks, Would Baghdad fall quickly? The two generals are concerned that the Wolfowitz school may underestimate the risks involved, the officials said. They have argued that...