Annals Of The Hive

I wrote this five years ago, right after Charles Ferguson won his Academy Award.  I think I have a pretty good idea now what Wall Street pla...

Every race has a dark horse, running at long odds. In this year's race for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, the dark horse m...

View Larger Map As you zoom in, the arrow points to the opening of Afghanistan's Korengal Valley at the Pech River, northwest of Asad...

Apparently, somebody convinced Suzanne Collins that the narrative of The Hunger Games, her teeny-bopper dystopian novel, needed some "f...

When I came home from the Army in the late Sixties, I spent a lot of time smoking dope and arguing with a good friend about whether everythi...