Author: timelord

The political dimensions of “Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith,” currently still breaking box office records, seemed to take many people by surprise. However, if anyone had paid attention to what Lucas had been...

“Words can be like notes, like expressions of the soul,” Don Watson writes in his new book, DEATH SENTENCES: How Cliches, Weasel Words, and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language (Gotham Books, 208 pages,...

“Space superiority is not our birthright, but it is our destiny,” proclaimed General Lord. “Space superiority is our day-to-day mission. Space supremacy is our vision for the future.” No, it’s not...

[From the diaries by susanhbu] While the Bushies do nothing but bluster, Iran is calling their bluff, as did North Korea last week. It’s a dangerous game of nuclear chicken, set against the background of the...

While the U.S. media ignores the non-proliferation conference in New York, many outside the U.S. and some in are castigating the Bush administration for threatening world peace and stability with their intransigence and...