The Froggy Bottom Lounge is hereby open, after a full and interesting discussion during the daytime Café. The soundsystem has some light ambient jazz thing going on, the lights have been dimmed a bit, and we’ve opened...
Read More(Cross-posted at dailyKos)This diary is long – mostly because it includes my inadequate attempt at translating a few paragraphs of “The GULag Archipelago” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These paragraphs are what...
Read MoreIt seems that every time a foreign journalist uncovers and revels some wrongdoing by the Bush administration, there is ponderous musings in US media as to why they didn’t catch that story. That type of talk, of...
Read MoreCross posted on dailykos.Many Americans have been outraged by Karl Rove’s words delivered at a New York fundraising speech. Twin Tower families, Op Ed pages and blogs have exploded with fiery opinion. I...
Read MoreBent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men...
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