Month: April 2005

Take this fun, short quiz at Grist. (I got 6 right, sigh. You?) “Dearth Day”: Earth Day goings-on don’t measure up to “dark drama on Capitol Hill” where the House passed an energy bill “that...

[S]ome might not want this sort of freedom which reeks of oil and is splattered with blood.” – Belarus president Aleksandr Lukashenko, a Soviet-style dictator Condi, who has scorned Belarus as “the last true...

since Henry Hyde was kind enough to give us an opening. I originally posted this as a comment to the first diary on dailykos on Hyde’s remarks yesterday.  That diary had a factual error, which is noted in the expanded...

. New London Play Fetes U.S. Activist Killed in Gaza LONDON (Reuters) April 21, 2005 – A new play tracing the journey of Rachel Corrie from comfortable American home to death in a Gaza refugee camp paints the young peace...

Promoted from the diaries – susanbhu. See also: Lorraine’s update diary, 100 Women Will Die Today: Here’s Why. The Guardian is reporting that despite approval by a panel of medical experts, the World Health...