Syracuse New Times - SANITY FAIR http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/newyork/articles.sec-735-1-sanity-fair.html <![CDATA[It’s All about Accountability - Syracuse police must take responsibility for their actions]]> Give District Attorney William Fitzpatrick some credit. He half-identified the problem. Speaking last week to a reporter, Fitzpatrick blamed the train wreck in the James Guilford case on a police department that has no accountability. But then the DA’s argument went off the rails.]]> <![CDATA[Droning On - High-tech weapon may create only the illusion that we're safer ]]> <![CDATA[Science Giveth, and Science Taketh Away - Eternal life might not work out if breathing is still required ]]> <![CDATA[What are They Smoking? - Stop pretending medicine is something you light up]]> <![CDATA[Free Radicals - Condemnation misses the target: It's the violence]]> <![CDATA[Boston Strong - Runners shine through despite the bombings at this year's Boston Marathon]]> <![CDATA[Can We Afford to Wait for Consensus? - ]]> <![CDATA[It’s Not the Socks that Stink - It's hard to keep up with the elected criminals, although we try]]> <![CDATA[Chavez Leaves a Mixed Legacy - He was a hero to Venezuela's poor, but made many enemies during his rule]]> Like Allende, who nationalized the Chilean copper industry in the early 1970s, Chavez sought greater state control of Venezuela’s rich oil fields. Like Arbenz in Guatemala, he stepped on the toes of powerful landed interests, many of them linked to the United States.]]> <![CDATA[Can Good Come of Such Evil? - Reactions are complicated after murder of woman, rape of child]]> <![CDATA[Resigned to the Status Quo - At the top in the Vatican, the name will change but not much els]]> <![CDATA[The High and the Flighty - A new Hancock airport hangar will cater to well-heeled jet-setters]]> <![CDATA[10 Things to Know about the New Post-Standard/Syracuse.com - In new online world, you can get your Syracuse news in Ukrainian]]> <![CDATA[Top Gun - Obama already commands the largest military on earth, so his skeet shooting photo op seems redundant]]> <![CDATA[Constant Comments - Many city residents avoid Syracuse.com because of the racist diatribes posted at the end of articles]]> Khalid Bey is worried about the shrinking profile of the Syracuse newspapers, which he thinks will result in much less information getting to his community. Bey, the 4th District common councilo]]> <![CDATA[Speech Therapy - By mentioning Stonewall in his inaugural address, Barack Obama elevated LGBT rights and brought hope to the marginalized]]> Four years ago Vince Sgambati, a retired teacher with the Syracuse City School District, went with his family to Sparky Town, a delightful and LGBT-friendly Burnet Avenue eatery, to watch Barack O]]> <![CDATA[Biden’s Big Deal - The veep should take the NRA's offer of an armed guard at every school in exchange for tighter gun control]]> Syracuse University Law School’s most prominent alum, Vice President Joe Biden, is about the only politician to have emerged from the silliness generally referred to...]]> <![CDATA[Chambers of Horror - Chambers of Horror]]> <![CDATA[End Game - Nothing will matter after the Dec. 21 apocalypse turns the world into zombieland]]> <![CDATA[Unfinished Business - It's still not clear why Syracuse University didn't suspend Bernie Fine in 2005, when allegations against him were first raised]]>