Month: May 2005

I saw an article on Daily Kos yesterday about how the Religious Right aren’t urging their flock to enlist.  In fact, Falwell himself managed to avoid service in Korea.  Pat Robertson took a pass, too.  I...

The Australian Budget for 2005-06 (our fiscal year is from 1 July to 30 June)was ‘brought down’ (introduced) in the Australian Parliament last night (Tuesday 10 May) by Treasurer Peter Costello.  It is his and...

This will be a brief diary, as I’m at work. Just wanted to bring the article below to the attention of the Tribbers.  The link is actually from 29 April, but I cannot recall any discussion and the “search”...

Sixty-seven people in three cities have died in Iraq today. The deadliest attack came in Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit: 30 people — “mostly day laborers waiting to get picked up for work at construction...

Recent discourse in many threads on dkos and elsewhere has been dominated by a marked tendency to focus exclusively on the US’s deficiences, inadequacies and responsibilities for the many ill and evils of all parts of the...