The Berlin city council has voted to raze historic Templehof airport. It's become an unwanted relic with its historic patina rubbed off. It will succumb to the wrecking ball and for me, that's a shame.

White men aren't always guided by a hate of women, racial minorities, or anyone else for that matter. There's no underground club where men meet, drink beer, and think up ways to humiliate women and minorities. There's not even a secret handshake. Why blame the elections on us?

The Bush family may be a political dynasty, but they aren't a particularly intelligent dynasty - and you can't chalk all of the dumbness up to Bush the Lesser either.

Aside from his flag waving, flight suit wearing, preening picture posing, mission accomplished displays, our commander-in-chief has done precious little for the troops he claims to so whole-heartedly support.

Where once the name simply meant "colossal", we now think of the Titanic as the perfect metaphor for incompetence, hubris, and sometimes the overwhelming ability of humans to be cavalier with their neighbors' lives.

Word comes from Iraq today that the often ineffective and undependable Iraqi police have finally found a law they're competent to enforce - the seat belt law.

My employer goes very green with its new building.

The Olympics are over-commercialized and over-politicized. Do we still have a need for them?

Helping young people make choices about joining the military are harder than ever in the face of Iraq

There's no doubt the Bush administration has an awfully high opinion of itself. The president once famously said that he couldn't think of a mistake he'd made in office. But The Big Dick? He has mondo-hubris.