, originally uploaded by Bright Tal. More from The Stranger’s Last Days: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – Clearly jealous of the attention lavished on Dick Cheney following the vice president’s shooting of an elderly man in the face, today President Bush sought to reestablish himself as America’s premier dangerous idiot,

Harper’s Magazine implores us to “IMPEACH HIM” on its March cover. Here’s an excerpt from the accompanying article: Drawing on evidence furnished over the last four years by a sizable crowd of credible witnesses—government officials both extant and former, journalists, military officers, politicians, diplomats domestic and foreign—

From the New York Times online, an article about a news broadcast via Al Jazeera of an American-Syrian psychologist voicing her opinions of violence invoked in the name of Islam: Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and

When It Comes to Drug Laws, the Jokes End By CLYDE HABERMAN Published: March 14, 2006 Most of the 100 or so people on hand, it seemed safe to say, would change the existing statutes in a heartbeat. They murmured approval when Robert Gangi, the executive director of the Correctional

From the NY Times (full article): Defenders of the Faith By SLAVOJ ZIZEK Published: March 12, 2006 Fundamentalists do what they perceive as good deeds in order to fulfill God’s will and to earn salvation; atheists do them simply because it is the right thing to do. Is this