Our legacy in Iraq
By Vivian Greentree04/28/2006
There was an article in Newsweek last week about the more than 1,200 U.S. children who have lost a parent in Iraq or Afghanistan. They are falling through the cracks of the Pentagon’s casualty assistance programs. Some have been shuffled around from department to department for over five months after their parent’s deaths, others not receiving any counseling at all. For each ultimate sacrifice a soldier makes, there are innumerable ripples in the fabric of their families’ and friends’ lives.
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The Psychology of Bush’s Nicknames
By Ronald Pies MD04/27/2006
What are we to make of an American president who refers to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as “Pootie-Poot”? How are we to understand President Bush’s christening of advisor Karl Rove as both “Boy Genius” and “Turd Blossom”?
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Pride and Prejudice: Perplexa and The Portrait of the Post-Modern Female
By Alexander Rai04/14/2006
Alas, her name is not important.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
By Ann Weaver Hart04/05/2006
People send me things, news items, links to obscure journalistic ventures on the Internet. Sometimes I think they send these things to see if they can get a rise out of me. Okay, I know they send me things to see if they can get a rise out of me.
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Wake Me up When September Ends: Alfie’s Story and Mine
By Alexander Rai04/02/2006
Alfie has everything. Yes, everything. He has the face of Jude Law, complete with the bone structure, bristle, a rugged-boy blondness, and eyes that look green on the average East Coast television set. It follows therefore, that he has the accent of an Englishman, which of course is a pan-continental winner of hearts in its calculated, measured, sane, and seductive enunciation and inflection of erotic panache.
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Tolkien, Trauma, and Transamerica: The Sign of Our Times
By Alexander Rai04/01/2006
A dozen gold stars over a piece of used red cotton t-shirt spread itself 30 inches across a loose square bulk on top of which rested a face, nay, a jaw.
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The Politics of Dude
By Alexander Rai04/01/2006
The image of a Dude invokes some of the most familiar and serene images of humanity at large. He is one, fully in touch with his cosmic aura. He possesses a keen intuition and a refreshing capacity to fully fathom the tenderness of moments. A Dude is a dogmatically non-judgmental, approximately sentient being whose most telling trait is his ability to accept all that is bizarre and all that is beautiful (to him). The Dude is a simplifier.
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