Month: June 2005

On rebuilding community

Am I wrong, or do many of us displaced Kossacks think of the community we just left (or strayed from, as the case may be) as family? You know, the more I think about this (at 3 AM), the more I think we Kossack refugees need to...

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I almost left Kos tonight, but didn’t

It’s getting really disgustingly teenagerish over there, as evidenced by what happened on my diary here.  I almost left for good.  I really did. And then JamesB3, whom I respect greatly but who is not usually...

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Italian Referendum on Assisted Procreation

“It’s evident that once we’ve obtained the recognition of the principle that an embryo is a human being, it will be necessary to profoundly modify the law on abortion in order to avoid a clamorous...

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CARTOON: Bravo, Mr. President!

The last week or so has been pretty depressing.  Kind of like finding an old picture of yourself (when you were younger and thinner) and wondering “what happened?!”  The Deep Throat/Watergate retrospectives...

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