Author: Jay Tea

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, reminds me a little of our own ambassador, John Bolton. Both have what traditionally been a crippling trait in diplomats: a …

This has been a very, very, very good month for the nerd in me. That's the nerd that has a three-foot-tall stack of Star Trek books -- and those …

I just received a spam that said "people judge your (masculine appendage) size by your shoe size." I t came in just as I was slipping into my size …

Yesterday was a bad day for Matt Amarello, Massachusetts' Turnpike Authority Chairman. Not one, but two courts ruled against him. First, one said that the lawsuit brought by a …

Two days ago, after Israeli fire killed four United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon, Secretary General Kofi Annan issued a statement that called the attack "apparently deliberate." I don't think …

Every day, as it becomes more and more obvious that Boston's Big Dig project is not as bad as its critics had been claiming since it started. It's far, …

Over at Willisms today, I take a look at the gray area between large terrorist organizations and governments, and consider the unthinkable......

A Harris poll recently conducted indicated that the percentage of Americans who believe that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction before the invasion has risen in the last year, …

Damn, he did it again... Over at Big Lizards, Dafydd ab Hugh has a fascinating essay up. In it, he doesn't say anything I haven't said before. But he …

One of the more pathetic examples of human psychology is "battered wife syndrome," where someone covers for, makes excuses for, and even defends the person who abuses and mistreats …