Month: June 2005

I have a confession to make. I haven’t actually been to a formal confessional since I was a child and routinely lied to the Catholic priest when I had nothing sinful to confess by making stuff up I thought he’d like...

image: Marines prepare to fold the flag draped over the casket of Lance Cpl. Robert Thomas Mininger, of Sellersville, Penn., during his funeral service at Arlington Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Monday, June 20, 2005. Mininger,...

Tom Delay suggests that Iraq is just as safe as Houston, Texas: “You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody’d go to Houston, because all this reporting coming out of the...

Beyond the kerfuffle over the off-key G8 poverty reduction programs perhaps naively endorsed by Bob Geldof and Bono (more on that below) — Amnesty Int’l’s report today accuses G8 nations of supplying arms to...

[Cross-posted at Folkbum and Daily Kos.] Like many movements, this one started with a book. Certainly, there was the earlier proto-environmental movement involving John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and protector of...