Month: March 2005

The Miep Gies Gene

The first hominids who strained and struggled until they managed to rise up on two trembling limbs, were vilified, we can be sure, by their fellows. Some, if not most, were probably killed within minutes of their evolutionary...

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HOTLIST ENABLED and some other changes

I never used HOTLIST at dKos. Let me know if it is working right. Also, on the top menu there is a new box called ‘Recent Comments’. It will show you the last 10 comments made on the site. That way you know...

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An outsider’s view of US health care

If Theresa Schiavo had lacked health coverage fifteen years ago, would we ever have heard of her plight? With a view to the right wing’s anguished insistence on the tax-payer financed life support of one person against her...

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serious moonlight: an evening with M. Ward

The Great American Music Hall is one of those venues that with its combination of gilded ambiance, storied history and spooky atmosphere….creates a kind of off-the-grid node, a super-charged creative space, that adds...

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