The murderous maniacs just keep cropping up across the nation in one supermarket after another. They walk in, go straight to the cereal section and start to shoot at the cereal boxes. And they do it indiscriminately. It doesnt matter whether the cereal is Kelloggs Corn Flaks, Post Raisin ...

"I never go on vacation," said a Manhattan real estate agent. "And when I do, I have my computer, my Palm, my e-mail and my cell phone with me at all times." It seems that our tech toys have become the adult equivalent of an umbilical cord. So how can we live without them And what ab ...

While browsing the philosophy section in a quaint and generally inaccessible bookshop, we came across a miniature tome we might have missed in conning the long shelves of a megastore. Noting the title on the spine and considering its offbeat nature with curiosity, we reached to indulge i ...

The Reverence Gregory Gird, preacher at a thriving megachurch with 5,000 devoted members, caused quite a stir and lost 1,000 adherents when he gave a sermon in which he came right out and defended tolerance. There were early warning signs that he might advocate the now intolerable virtu ...

Earlier reports that BP closed its Alaska pipeline due to corrosion have turned out to be erroneous. The company, noticing growing rancor that it would allow such a vital link to corrode to the point of desuetude, altered its story, saying that subsequent examination revealed that the le ...

Has a nation every conducted a war like the one Israel waged against Hezbollah Instead of the usual war is hell, it was more like an attempt to conduct war as make nice. Now that a cease fire is in place, fragile as it may be, let's review the tactic and how it weathered the war. Did w ...

Mohammed One raised his hands toward where he thought heaven might be, and wailed, I cant stand it anymore! Allah, have mercy! But the sky, flame-streaked and smoky, remained unresponsive. So he sank to his knees and began to weep, but the ground was so hot it blistered his knees instan ...

Poor Joe Lieberman how fallen from grace is he and in such a sudden way. Just six years ago, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, today he finds himself unable to persuade his party to reelect him to a fourth term in the Senate. And, as lousy luck would have it, he lost the Dem ...

Mark this date on your calendar: August 8, 2006. It was on this day that the rarest diplomatic event of modern times took place. France and America agreed on something, specifically, the wording of the resolution before the UN on the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. ...

A new survey by Whew! Research reveals that Americans are not as polarized as politicians and newscasters on supposedly divisive issues like abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research. "Despite talk of 'culture wars' and the high visibility of politicians, newscasters, and activist g ...

Thanks to British intelligence, with a little help from a wise and noble Muslim informer, another attack by Al-Qaeda has been foiled. And just in the turban of time. As you know, the suspects had recently received a coded message from Pakistan, where the authorities were closing in on th ...

How it Happened I was alone @ home late one night after one, two or three too many vodka & cranberries. Dog-hungry, I started clambering about the kitchen in search of sustenance. Unfortunately, the only thing edible I was able to muster up was a can of Star-Kist tuna. I then reluct ...

It might take a little coffee or probably a few rounds of beer or any other booze you could get your hands on when it comes to relaxing after a hard day's work. Well, yeah I'm guilty about that one as well, unless I'm caught dead wearing a lampshade over my head after a few rounds of vod ...

The Chicago City Council has voted to criminalize foie gras. An alderman who is a member of the questionable culinary group maintains that the delicious delicacy represents a case of cruelty to animals, since the geese and ducks that produce it are force fed through tubes placed in their ...

An Islamic woman in Mogadishu finally did it: she inflicted eleven lashes on an Islamic leader for threatening to flog her for selling cannabis. To justify the intended flogging of the woman before she turned on the male who had ordered it, the rulers pointed to a passage in the Koran t ...

A male rabbit named Furball had lost all hope. The female rabbit he had lived with for an entire year had left him for another rabbit. The owner of the garden he usually dined at had just put a fence around it. A fox had nipped one of his ears. And, at his most depressed, it seemed to hi ...

Some days when we contemplate the divisive and deluded doings in DC, it helps to look away from the grandiose and revered buildings that have hosted our government since it was moved there from Philadelphia in 1800 and to contemplate the broad, green, and ever forward pushing Potomac, th ...

Its time for the USA to resolve, once and for, to bring down the curtain on international conduct so clumsy it can be seen, not as dexterous, but as the ballet Frankenstein. Time to remember that ninety-nine percent of our practically usable power comes out of the barrel of a cash machin ...

It seems that Americas only optimist in regard to Iraq is beginning to feel unloved by the people he hoped to bring freedom and democracy to, much like a distressed lover who has proffered a box of chocolates, only to find that the object of his affections is allergic to chocolate. Or, w ...

How can a demagogue who boasts of kidnapping and killing and whose woeful misjudgment has reined down death and destruction on his own country be hailed as a saint Is this demagoguery for dummies or what How can the Lebanese people, proud descendants of the Phoenicians first to trade wi ...