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The L Word A full-page ad in the LA Times yesterday loudly proclaims how The L Word, a new TV series about lesbians, is monumentally ground-breaking and Very Very Important indeed. However reality is not allowed to intrude. The entire cast…

Feds slam California prison system California’s $5.3-billion penal system is plagued by a pervasive “code of silence” that protects rogue guards, corrupts recruits and is condoned by leaders who “neither understand nor care about the need for fair investigations,” a…

Something to think about Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. George Carlin

Bush booed in visit to Martin Luther King’s grave Several hundred protesters loudly booed President Bush on Thursday as he laid a wreath at the grave of Martin Luther King on the anniversary of the civil rights leader’s birth.

A bold new innovation Jim Hightower, my favorite populist left-wing Texan, reports: I have exciting news for those of you who worry that American industry is losing its creative edge! America West Airlines has just implemented a stunning innovation that…

The Western Wall. A parable. A reporter goes to Israel to cover the fighting. She is looking for something emotional and positive and of human interest. Something like that guy in Sarajevo who risked his life to play the cello…