When your hopes are washed away…. Most will say a raindrop, as it sparkles on a leaf while the evening sun sets, is a very beautiful thing, but when billions of those tiny raindrops crash into rivers and force them…

Enthusiasm wanes for the battle of Dr. Evil and Mini-Me  With all the nastiness, plot twists and power struggles of the 2002 California gubernatorial race between Gray Davis and Bill Simon, it’s starting to look like a grudge match between…

Gray Davis wallows at money trough, Chapter 947 After accepting $150,000 in political contributions from a California weight-loss company two years ago, Gov. Gray Davis decided the state would await federal action and not advise the public of the possible ill…

Tomb curse strikes again A legendary curse that has protected the tomb of Genghis Khan from discovery for 800 years appears to have struck again after a US expedition that claimed to have located the grave abruptly pulled out of…

 Rumsfeld’s Crazy Foreign Policy Team In the January 1975 issue of Commentary, Robert Tucker promoted the radical notion of invading Arab oil fields. It is worth noting that Commentary is a publication of the American Jewish Committee and is edited…

Changing the World Through the Web (Again) At the recent Extreme Markup Languages conference in Montreal, Jack Park spoke about NexistWiki. His presentation is available online. Park is in the process of building a piece of software that can be…