Articles by Lawrence Gridin


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Cluster Bomb Ban a Moral Success

At an historic conference in Dublin this week, 111 countries agreed to a near-complete ban on the use of cluster munitions. After 10 days of talks, and much lobbying and pressure from groups such as…



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Will Obama, Hillary, or McCain ever be as funny as Bush?

Say what you will about George Dubya Bush. He certainly wasn’t America’s most popular President. He certainly wasn’t America’s smartest President. He definitely wasn’t America’s best President. But as his 8 years in office draw…



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Mystery feet raise a stink in BC

For the past several months, severed human feet have been washing up on the shores of islands in British Columbia’s Georgia Straits. Reuters reports that a fourth such severed foot has been found. A passer-by…