Floating Ark

The world's attention has been on the tiny mountain kingdom of Tibet over the past two weeks after protests in 6 different Chinese citie...

Early this week we passed the 4,000 death mark in the Iraq War. I've had the war on the brain recently, being more amazed at how out of ...

It's Day 1 of March Madness and I've got my eyes tracking all my picks online. It should be a ridiculously good tournament and I...

I talked with my mother this evening about the lack of focus my generation seems to have when it comes to concentrating on one task for more...

This is just freakin' awesome. If I had a lawn, I'd get one in a heartbeat. A true zero-emissions mower! Albeit, a tad pricey.

Senior Foreign Policy adviser and long-time friend to Senator Barack Obama, Samantha Power, has resigned her position from the Obama campai...

New Mexico's Peter Domenici, the senior Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, slammed any hope of ending corporate ...

Since moving to Iowa City three months ago, I've taken to jogging once in awhile along the Iowa River. There are some paths through what...

We lost a great American character and truly unique individual today. If the cowboy persona of John Wayne could be a writer, it'd be wra...

You gotta love former drug-lords coming out for Hillary Clinton. Former Harlem heroin drug lords Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes both ruled the...

Hillary Clinton has been utilizing the term "Green Collar Jobs" over the past few months and, not surprising, she didn't come ...

Below are two fantastically filmed videos of bike messenger races in NYC and London. I have come to have a great deal of respect for the mes...

I'm originally from Vermont and outside of Ben and Jerry's ice cream (fave flavor is still Phish Food ), maple syrup (on the decline...

China, the largest and most powerful consumer country in the world, is dying to clear up their air. The combination of leaded gas, millions ...

They seem to be the rage now. San Francisco, being full of the smartest, most progressive folk I've ever encountered, is building the wo...

When your name is Dean Kamen , you probably eat really smart cereal in the morning. You probably wear really smart sweaters too. I bet you...

I've become addicted to this site over the past year after being introduced to it by one Stanley J back in SF. It continues to give me p...

How this is still an issue in an state who's history with voting corruption as checkered as your dad's wedding tuxedo from 1975 is ...

I'll be running to the theater to see this documentary. Unlike other films that are critical of the Bush administration's handling o...

I have to say that I wasn't surprised to see that the Yankee-Red Sox game tuned in almost twice as many viewers on Sunday night than th...