Recommended Reading

All of those New York Times columns for which I'm paying fifty bucks a year to read are now turning up for free on the website of a group called Truthout. I don't know why the Times hasn't shut it down but maybe the folks there have more important things to worry about these days.

Since it's there, you might want to read this weekend's Frank Rich column, which lays out a timeline for why certain "stories" seem to have spread by the White House. I'd also suggest a glance at a piece by Nicholas P. Kristof, which is about how a Bush administration decision is causing people in Niger to die, many of them pregnant women. One of the problems I have with the "pro-life" movement is how arbitrary and selective it seems to be about which lives are sacred and must be protected at all costs.