"In August 1996, Sutton's bulldozers, backed by military police firing weapons, rolled across the goldfield, smashing down worker housing, crushing their mining equipment....About 50 miners were still in their mine shafts, buried alive."

—BBC Correspondent Greg Palast, Bush Family Fortunes

One night I dreamt of a masked man pursuing me down a dark and deserted street. I ran too fast to slow down, even when I saw a warning sign that said the street was about to end. And then the street dropped off like a cliff.

Before Blue's Clues, there was Mr. Wizard and he was great.

It is common for Paraguayan women to greet one another with "Nde kyrapona!," which roughly translates to "You are so good and fat!" It is a compliment my American wife would have a hard time responding enthusiastically to.

Vision of Humanity releases the 2007 Global Peace Index, which ranks countries in terms of their peacefulness. Unsurprisingly, most MENA countries didn't fare well.

Someone is making Scrooge McDuck-type money off of my illness and I’m getting pretty tired of it.

It is hard enough to find love, and those who are able to find it are fortunate and should be able to celebrate it rather than wondering if the next day is the day that they will lose their lives because of it. I can only hope that there will come a day when love of all kinds is embraced.

With bloggers being jailed and sites being blocked around the world, it's time we took a stand against Internet censorship.