Month: July 2005

Suppose you lived on a farm, and were trying to protect the place from roving bands of marauders intent on murder and mayhem.  You put bars on the windows, security cameras around the perimeter, locked lids on all the tanks...

image: In this file photo from July 7, 2005, Egypt’s envoy to Iraq Ihab el-Sherif is shown speaking at an unknown location in Iraq in this frame grab from a video posted on an Internet site. Handout/Reuters Photo by...

This is your free-for-all OPEN thread, but I hope you’ll check out the great list of action items at ExxposeExxon.com (via Alternet’s “Exposing Exxon’s Bad Behavior”).

(Cross-posted on dailykos.com) After putting the kids to bed last night, we settled down to watch a video – Hotel Rwanda.  I’d actually forgotten that a million people were brutally slaughtered in this...

“The wages of typical workers are treading water, growing roughly at the same rate that inflation eats into their buying power. Last week, the Labor Department reported that average wages for production and nonsupervisory...