The artist Christo gets approval for his project wrapping the Arkansas River.

The L.A. Times reports: “Over The River” comprises eight huge, silvery fabric panels spanning 5.9 miles directly above the Arkansas River wh...

At the Extravagant Lamb Café...

... is that all you can do?

Al Gore is trying real hard to be the shepherd.

The climate doom-master has written a poem (in his new book "Our Choice"): Here is how the poem begins: One thin September soon A ...

Camille Paglia -- a big Obama supporter -- rips his performace at Saddleback.

She writes: What in the world possessed the Obama campaign to let their guy wander like a dazed lamb into a snake pit of religious inquisiti...

Why was Hillary booed twice in New Hampshire?

Time's Jay Newton-Small writes : The first time was when she said she has always and will continue to work for "change for you.[...

Graffiti on State Street, in Madison, Wisconsin.

I'll bet your mom is buying you presents right now. Isn't she ignorant? The sheep. Doing what the corporations have trained her to d...

Blogging the conventions.

I see the Democratic Party is about to accept applications to bloggers to cover their convention (in Denver next summer): The move gives bl...

Bible verses the candidates didn't cite.

Last night at the big debate, Tim Russert asked each of the Democratic candidates to recite their favorite Bible verse. They all made a stab...

"The more we play God or try to improve on Mother Nature, the more damage we are doing with all kinds of experiments that... turn into nightmares."

That sounds like the alarmism of a religious fundamentalist, but hostility to scientific research comes from the progressive side when the ...

"They said to me: 'We get a pig? Great'... So I explained the exhibition. They said, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, but give me the pig. We’re poor."

Another art project for you to rail against: A Danish artist has stirred up controversy by giving Ugandan villagers free goats, sheep and pi...

"Genghis Khan/He could not keep/All his men/Supplied with sheep."

Robert Christgau, utterly seduced by Maria Muldaur singing Bob Dylan songs, says: "I got a whole new idea of what those sheep are for...

"If any of us blog on this right now, we fuel the story. Let's starve it of oxygen."

TNR publishes a message "Kos sent earlier this week to 'Townhouse,' a private email list comprising elite liberal bloggers...

Religion, like a parasitic worm.

Edward Rothstein writes : An ant climbs a blade of grass, over and over, seemingly without purpose, seeking neither nourishment nor home. It...

The Village People cowboy has his say about "Brokeback Mountain."

Well, of course, "Brokeback Mountain" means it's time for Randy Jones, the cowboy from The Village People to resurface and do...

Such sheep.

Sheep are such sheep .

Faces seen around town.

A clown on a wall: An unrecognizable face on a lamppost: Gandhi on the sidewalk: Three faces on a wall: An elusive face in a shredded pos...