Annalog Newsflash: Newsvine’s public launch is tomorrow.
Is it true?
Definitely maybe.

Hillary Clinton is somewhat unusual — a polarizing figure with a studiously moderate voting record. In order to find out more about why Americans are so divided about her, I pose this question: what do you think about Hillary?
I’ll start. I think Hillary Clinton is very smart and very shrewd. I think she is unquestionably […]

Observe:
“Our goal has to be to reduce our forces down, and to do it at a pace where we recognized that we’re going to—I almost said ‘make a mistake.’ It will look like a mistake. It’s a judgment call. We’re going to have to pull out of some pieces of real estate and turn over […]

This is what happens when you send a nice Valentine’s email to your mom. You get renamed by AdWords.

It’s pretty stunning that 123numerology.com found out the secret I don’t tell anybody: my name is actually No Accident North. My parents just wanted to hammer home the idea that I was a planned and wanted child.

“Today during court proceedings,” reports the New York Times, “Mr. Hussein flapped his arms wildly until he began to lift off the ground. While the judge and counsels from both sides watched aghast, he floated at an altitude of ten feet for approximately seven minutes. During this time, he pelted the crowd with several wet […]

In the New York Times and here on Newsvine, I’ve read countless criticisms of the Democratic Party’s failure to offer a decent alternative to a flailing Bush administration. These criticisms are entirely justified. But they are not enough. We can’t be content with wishing the Democrats would do a better job. We have the right […]

I came across this little epigram today while browsing Almost 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Believing in astrology isn’t the worst flaw a woman can have. Being a vegetarian, for example, would be a lot worse.
This resonated with me because I am a vegetarian. However, my worst flaw is that I am a werewolf.

1. Continued dependence on the sale of oil, which polarizes the middle East into haves and have-nots, with governments gaining favor not through fairness or justice but simply by spreading oil money around.
2. European formal and informal colonization of the Middle East circa WWI, which stunted Middle Eastern economies and installed a series of illegitimate […]

Dan Savage’s column Savage Love taught me the phrase “sex-positive,” and his ideas are sex-positive in the best sense. In his “Straight Rights” updates, he shrewdly connects reproductive rights and gay rights — both movements are ultimately about freedom and equal protection under the laws. He gives an interview in The Onion AV Club this […]

The vicious and violent feud over the Mohammed cartoons is a symptom of a larger issue: radical Islam constitutes a fusion of religion and politics, and we in the West have not learned to deal with this fusion.
Political rhetoric is about debate and compromise. But religious rhetoric is sacred. Many people believe that the word […]