Want play a trick on those, Trick or Treating rascals that call on your house this Halloween We have the perfect Trick or Treat, treat - Chocolate covered brussel sprouts! We all know how much children hate to eat their greens, especially brussel sprouts. So this little treat is sure to ...

Laugh! Its the British Raj − (Book review) Wee Charlies World, by Bryce McBryce (Danpress adult fiction, 196pp, isbn 0959063048) Review by Cathy Macleod Long ago, when Britain ruled the world, its military families regularly confounded the War Office. And thereby lies a hilariou ...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came out, dunce and for all, about the proper conduct of a university and its head, saying, "Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities." To justify his abridgement of intellectual ...

Secretary-General Kofi Annan sped to the Middle East with his UN emergency repair kit to do maintenance work on the quick fix the UN implemented between Israel and Hezbollah. Only trouble is, his traveling handiwork doesnt seem as much like the permanent fix as all the world would like t ...

We were in a downcast mood, seemingly without any hope of hearing from an enlightened person in the Middle East, when suddenly there was the level-headed man from Jordan, King Abdullah, speaking, in a Time interview, about what needs to get done in his region so the nations over there ca ...

If youre a fan of Mozart and what lover of classical music isn't heres melodic news and a cheerful way to pay. A Dutch label called Brilliant Classics has just come out with a bargain edition of The Complete Works of Mozart. Since the composer is indubitably the Viennese confectioner o ...

Heres to Steve Irwin, the world's favorite croc jock, who entertained us with his ebullient pursuit of the reluctant crocs, pythons, and assorted non-human inhabitants of the earth. How inappropriate it seems that he met his terminus as the result of an encounter with a stingray gone wro ...

What do you know Theres at least one Iranian who still has a good thought in his cranium It appears that Mohmmad Khatami, the mullahlands former Pres is just such a resilient and commendable gentleman. During his two-week trip to the USA interestingly, the mullahs behind the rascally cu ...

The leaders of six Western nations whose inhabitants have, at least in the distant past, experienced the redemptive insights of the Enlightenment, with its insistence that reason should play a foundational role in human thought and that an idea like Condorcets perpetual peace and progres ...

President Chavez of Venezuela, responding to the Chevron discovery of new oil reserves in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which more than double Americas known reserves, stated, What do these gringos mean new oil reserves These oil reserves are the result of an oil leak from Vene ...

What a night to be at sea! shouted brave Captain Bush into the rain-slashed, wind-whipped Middle Easter that had suddenly come upon The Good Ship USA. Yar, yar, ya got that right, Capn, returned his faithful and once jocund first mate, Rummy, now hunkered down as he, too, braved the ceas ...

Tony Blair announced that he will step down as Prime Minister of England within a year and give up leadership of the Labor Party, which has been increasingly upset with his performance and approval ratings. What Mr. Blair did not announce is that he is just plain fed up with not being pr ...

The reformative news is in for nasty people and nice people, who often wonder if there is any justice in the world, are delighted. Studies have shown that those with a personality sometimes called type D, which some say stands for distressed but we think should stand for Downright Nasty ...

Anybody who has wended his or her way through the linguistic excellences and frequently petulant schemers in Shakespeares plays longs, at some point, to say to Lady Macbeth herself, Out, out, damned spot! After all, how much can anyone take of such a relentlessly scheming prod to the plo ...

The most well-preserved skeleton of an ancestor of homo sapiens has been discovered in Ethiopia. The skeleton, dating back about 3.3 million years, is a member of the evolutionary group known as Australopithecus Venezuelas and had a face that looks remarkably like Hugo Chavez. Scientists ...

And what is your background, Pinky Russell Peters looked directly at me from the stage at Yuk-Yuks in Ottawa Ontario at the 8 pm Saturday, Sept 9th show. I was wearing a blue shirt, so I wasn't getting the 'Pinky' comment until my wife, Janet, pointed out that I was all red-in-the face f ...

An unexpected manuscript showed up in our inbox. We were immediately convinced of its authenticity and decided we had to share it with you. It was accompanied by the following note: Hi, there. Hows life working out Who am I Thats for me to know and for you to guess. Let me just say that ...

The Senate is debating whether or not guys who go by the rules of the Geneva Convention can defeat guys who torture people and shoot them in the back of the head. Even Colin Powell jumped in and said he thinks we should adhere to the Geneva Conventions in order to protect the safety of o ...

Noam Chomsky, the innovative linguist on the left, went from the relatively placid life of a leading scholar to a major presentation by Hugo Chavez at the UN, who held up as recommended reading one of his many books, with the hefty title, Hegemony or Survival: Americas Quest for Global D ...

After decades of refusing to admit that Palestine has a legitimate right to exist, Israel inched toward possible approval of the idea it has opposed as part of its militantly anti-Palestine platform. Palestinians, who have by now grown used to the belief that they are the ones who get to ...