No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.