Yesterday was a day to celebrate a smooth beginning, today the statistics of war inevitably turn our emotions around as one of our own goes berzerk and commits fratricide, pictures of American dead and captured are paraded on the decadently irresponsible Iraqi state television and al Jazeera, and our casualties …

Saddam Hussein – alive, injured or dead – is trying to revive his hold on power by broadcasting lies so outrageous that the only possible net result will be even less public confidence in his regime. When people hear something on the TV that is contradicted by their eyes, ears, …

In between writing triumphalist posts about the war, I am painting the basement a strange shade of blue-gray today and inhaling a lot of fumes, although I think what I just saw was real. We have somehow ended up with three cats: one to replace a cat that was run …

Going on right now, and tomorrow at 6:30AM, and Sunday night-Monday morning at 12:30 AM on Book TV: 2003 Virginia Festival of the Book – Dreams of War Panel Description: From the Virginia Festival of the Book, in Charlottesville, a panel discussion on the nature of war featuring discussants Chris …

It’s kind of like the cat in the box experiment – if he isn’t dead now he will be soon: there almost certainly was convincing intelligence that Saddam was in the compound that Bush decided to attack on March 19. No U.S. official would have advocated altering the entire war …

Respectfully, the Pope is old, feeble, deluded and full of shit.

Sometimes the good guys win.

If you’ve been following the Dixie Chicks’ saga – and based upon the traffic and comments, in the days just before the war, few were concerned with much else – you know that after Natalie Maines slammed President Bush in London, she apologized the next day. Well, we have all …

Poor Bryan, another wife has furrowed an unauthorized hoe: Rock star Bryan Ferry and his wife, Lucy, were divorced Friday after 21 years of marriage. The High Court Family Division granted Ferry, 56, and the former Lucy Helmore, 42, an uncontested divorce. The couple, who married in June 1982 and …

The deviantART site has 225 visual interpretations on the theme “Iraq War 2003.” There is some thought-provoking imagery, deft workmanship, creativity, humor and passion. Of the works that take a discernable stand – many are appealingly vague – 95% are anti-war, and most are frankly rather glib and trite in …