Month: May 2005

NEW DOCUMENTS via the Associated Press’s FOIA request. 2,000 pages. Listed by detainee name. Story: AP: Gitmo Prisoners Told Panel About Abuse. Can we get more volunteers to go through these? Send me an e-mail —...

There are a pair of remarkable op-ed columns in today’s Charlotte Observer about Baptists, presumably in reference to the N.C. pastor who put up the sign saying the Koran should be flushed (follow-up story). The first,...

Here’s an interesting thought I found in an interview on the SciFi Channel’s web site with prolific sci-fi writer Robert Charles Wilson (The Harvest, 1992, Mysterium, 1994, Darwinia, 1998, Bios 1999, The Chronoliths,...

Just want to make my presence known. I was forwarded this site by Apian, SusanHu, and a few others and just want to say hello.So here I am. I am Stand Strong over at DailyKos. I’d like to know more about this site. Apian...

I am, as I write this, listening to the original recording of the War Requiem of Benjamin Britten.  It was written for the dedication of the new Cathedral in Coventry, the old having been destroyed in a bombing in WWII that...