I’m trying to post a more balanced view – but I would like to see what Ariel or Brian have to say on today’s most pressing issue.

First Person: Hell no, I won’t go

Watching people march again to give Saddam Hussein a longer lease on life, I wonder about 1991. Perhaps if people like me hadn’t been in the streets, Bush Senior would have had the support to destroy Saddam’s regime. Lots of Iraqis would still be alive and the world would be talking about something else. In my community, the largely liberal and prosperous 14th ward in the city’s East End, I am getting funny looks saying these things to old acquaintances.