About Joey Kurtzman

Yesterday I got an e-mail from my cousin Matt saying, "a hundred years ago today Isak Altbaum left Europe…thank God we got out of Poland!" Attached to Matt's e-mail was a manifest of all the greasy "steerage aliens" (a term … Read More

George Bush was quite deliberate in picking last week as the time to announce his vast expansion of US HIV/AIDS relief efforts in Africa. It was all about social pressure. With the G8 summit coming up this week, most of … Read More

The Salt Lake Tribune says that a Mitt Romney administration might fulfill prophecy. It's Mormon lore, a story passed along by some old-timers about the importance of their faith and their country. In the latter days, the story goes, the … Read More

Yes yes, we all agree that it's disgraceful the way mankind has encroached on the territory of the great beasts, destroying more and more of their natural environment and herding them into the tiny reserves where they jostle for space … Read More

If you don’t know that George Bush just doubled the size of PEPFAR, the Bush anti-HIV/AIDS initiative that was already the largest and most ambitious anti-disease program in human history, you shouldn’t feel too bad. PEPFAR has never gotten much … Read More

Scroll to the bottom of this page and leave a comment. Once you submit it, what you write will remain on the site forever—unless we decide that it goes too far beyond the bounds of acceptable speech. But what does … Read More

How about none of the above? Charles claims his critics have considered only the above three ad hominem explanations for his omnivorous diet, and ignored his ideas. As we approach 200 comments to the vegetarian dialogue, he's feeling caricatured. Not … Read More