Month: January 2006

Key question of the day: Why was yesterday “Blue Friday” in Seattle? (Trust Seattle fans to find a downer title to show their enthusiasm!) POLL!

[From the diaries by susanhu, who applauds Egarwaen and Knoxville Progressive for bringing forth the real ways — every day — that we can truly make a difference! It’s not enough to point fingers. We each have...

Good Morning Silicon Valley reports: Google saw the Bush administration’s request for its search records as “overbroad, unduly burdensome, vague and intended to harass.” Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL, mmmm, not so...

The NYT headline reads: “Heeding Pakistani Protest, U.N. Blocks Talk by Rape Victim.” The story says that “Mukhtar Mai, the Pakistani woman whose defiant response to being gang-raped by order of a tribal court...

by Patrick Lang (bio below) In my previous post, “And the Winner is – Saudi Arabia,” I argued that Saudi Arabia has recently made a successful effort to “acquire” Syria as a state operating within...