Month: April 2005

Uh-huh. And “Democratic buyers of Volvo cars outnumbered Republicans by only 32 percent to 27 percent,” reports the New York Times. “Volvos have become more plush and bourgeois, which is a Republican thing to...

Since we’ve been talking about gender a lot, and it’s Friday, and BooMan called me a gadfly, I thought I would spew some inflammatory rhetoric for a change. There are three things women cannot do, and two of them...

I was hoping the headline was a mistake; but it’s not.  This is the environment Bush’s administration has created in our country. The Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting Bush and his family,...

I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. In the 70’s (and probably now too), Charleston was a rich military target. We schoolchildren were often directed to watch films about the proper response to a nuclear missile...

Cross posted at dkos The point of this diary? Well I’ve recently found out about the proposed Iranian oil bourse (bourse being the French word for a commodities exchange) and would like to look into how this fits in and...