Author: eodell

As a regular reader of The Guardian, for which you may thank Steve Bell, I am often perplexed by British politics. Some things I understand, like parliamentary democracy, which I wish we had here. Other things, like the...

In Tony Blair’s England, there is a serious effort to criminalize criticism of religion. In theory, the object of this is to prevent, for example, Muslim clerics from calling for the extermination of Jews. In practice,...

When John Ashcroft appeared before Congress to deny that the Justice Department engaged in torture, he argued that, not only was torture morally repugnant, it wasn’t even effective. Torture victims will, after all, confess...

From the Guardian: British families trapped in New Orleans last night claimed that US authorities had refused to evacuate them as Hurricane Katrina approached the city. Although assistance was offered to US residents, British...

There’s been a lot of hullabaloo over Pat Robertson’s recent remark that the US ought to assassinate Hugo Chavez. Being a big fan of Chavez, a real social democrat of a sort we simply don’t have in the US, and...