Month: March 2005

[This began as a comment to PastorDan’s excellent Word for the Week for Easter Sunday. It got so long that it put me in mind of the “community standard” that if your comment is really long, you probably need to...

Typed as I listen to Philip Short, who wrote “Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare” — on Booktv.org, and fresh from watching portions of HBO’s new movie, “Sometimes in April,” about Hutu/Tutsu...

cross posted from Daily Kos Hello everyone in Boomanland. This is an experiment to see how Sunday Griot is received over here. And what better way to start off this cross-posting experiment on an Easter Sunday than to tell the...

WHITE HOUSE EASTER EGG HUNT Being as it is Easter and a lot of us are indulging in the tradition of the Easter Egg hunt, I thought it would be appropriate to post a few of the Easter Eggs that knowledgeable Left-leaning web...

Oil & gas in the Caspian has a long history – indeed it is one of the earliest oil production regions in the world, with Baku a major oil center in the second half of the 19th century and beyond. What makes the...