Lefkada, Greece -- The prevailing culture tells us that nothing succeeds like excess, that working 80 hours a week is better than working 70, and that sleeping less and multi-tasking more are an express elevator to the top. But ever since I passed out from exhaustion, broke my cheekbone and got five stitches over my eye a year ago, I've become an evangelist for the need to occasionally disconnect from our always-connected lives. And since there is no zealot like the convert, we've decided to demonstrate that a balanced life is possible even during the most compulsively hectic days in the political calendar. So in the midst of the Democratic National Convention, HuffPost's Living section will offer harried conventioneers a chance to unplug and recharge at the HuffPost Oasis with yoga classes, Thai massages, mini-facials, and more.
Of all the great resistance fighters I have met in my life, of all the Massouds and Izetbegovics I have had occasion to defend, Georgia's Saakashvili is the one who is the most unfamiliar with war, its rites, its emblems, its culture - but he is dealing with it.
This stadium thing looks like a really bad idea. But I did not write of this in public, because the blowback to criticizing Obama is so distracting and also because, well, they would probably wait for a man to say it.
Mother Jones is currently running a feature offering us the views of 24 writers, thinkers and historians on a question the editors find important: "Is Obama exaggerating when he compares his campaign to the great progressive moments in US history?"
Where does Musharraf's departure leave us insofar as the global effort to eradicate Al Qaeda from its haunts in northwest Pakistan? In one helluva pickle, to put it bluntly.
A few hours before iTunes became blocked in China, news surfaced about Songs for Tibet, a compilation CD offered free to Olympic athletes.
Be thankful for radio silence I guess when other candidates for VP like Daschle and Bayh are getting phone calls saying, "Sorry....but we look forward to working with you in many other ways in the coming years."
If I wasn't certain it would be like pounding sand down a rat hole, I would be taking out full page ads to tell the world I saw the man who should be the running mate for either Obama or McCain.
Joe Lieberman is being vetted as a Vice Presidential running mate for John McCain, and it seems to be an option that McCain is seriously considering.
For all the attention you've lavished on John McCain's Saddleback "victory," not one of you has asked him any of the obvious follow-ups.
A lesson McCain should have learned is that the world is a complex place, that today's enemies may be tomorrow's negotiating partners -- as Obama has at times dared to suggest.
There are several examples of where Jesus offers an answer to Pastor Warren's question on what to do about evil that is nearly opposite to Sen. McCain's.
