Month: June 2005

Dobson’s Family Research Council paid former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke $82,000 for his list of radical right-wing donors. Now there’s a shocker, huh?Others have been all over this, including AmericaBlog, and the...

Gender and Power What I have learned about gender and power was not learned in a classroom, but over 64 years of living life in America as a woman born into a small town, male dominated fundamentalist 1940 culture. I finally...

Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet has become my meditational text. In the past four years, which has been a time of tremendous transition and sadness, expansion and death and rebirth, these 10 letters, written...

The war in Iraq has produced some insane events, but this one is making my head explode: The Marines said the 16 Americans and three Iraqis, employed by Zapata Engineering of Charlotte, N.C., sprayed small-arms fire at Iraqi...

I fell asleep last night with the television on. This morning, as I gradually regained consciousness, I realized that the Chimperator was giving a speech. He appeared to be addressing the troops, but in reality he was addressing...