"Sorry, sweetie. I'll make sure the next duck you see in the fridge is dead".

If you're going to be a big tough huntin' kind of guy, at least kill the one-pound defenseless duck when you shoot it. I think that hunting in our modern society is cruel and unnecessary, but from my limited knowledge of hunting (being that I'm a sissy liberal), you're...

Arab or Western: same fundamental problems for women

It's been close to 20 years since I had a job which required that I keep regular office hours, and have daily interraction with co-workers. I was very interested to see this article from a blogger that I read regularly dealing with office politics and relationships which...

The AP's Jamil Hussein Scandal

"by Eason Jordan.   If an Iraqi police captain by the name of Jamil Hussein exists, there is no convincing evidence of it - and that means the Associated Press has a journalistic scandal on its hands that will fester until the AP deals with it properly. This...

Invasion Update: Ethiopia Advances on Somali Islamists’ Last City

Does this sound familiar? I'm sure we all believe that the invading army du jour will pack up and leave once Mission is Accomplished..."A phalanx of Ethiopian tanks and armored personnel carriers chugged toward the last city occupied by Somalia’s diminished Islamist...

3 members of missing family found alive

"Three members of a San Francisco family missing for more than a week were found alive Monday along a snowy, treacherous roadway in southwestern Oregon, police said. A search continued for the father. Investigators said a helicopter spotted 30-year-old Kati Kim waving an...

Vancouver woman found alive after 27 years

Her name is Wendy Louise Allen, and she has been found alive and living under an assumed name in Ontario.Vancouver Police were convinced she was one of the many women they thought had been killed by Robert "Willie" Pickton, who is charged in the murders of 26 women."The...

"6-Sunnis Burned Alive" is likely untrue

" "Sunnis Burned Alive in Revenge Attacks" This headline was blared with authority and gleeful revulsion across every newspaper in the U.S. Even Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper overseas, declared this in 2-inch letters on its front page. And why not? It is...

Sunnis burned alive in Iraqi revenge killings - Toronto Star

" Nov.25, 2006. 05:34AM TIM HARPER WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTONThe grim death toll in Iraq surged yesterday as reprisal killings followed the worst massacre of the war, leaving the streets of Baghdad strewn with victims of grisly assaults and American forces in the middle of...