Month: August 2005

For Cindy Sheehan and the residents of Camp Casey image: A seriously injured Iraqi man is rushed away from the scene of a massive suicide car bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military convoy, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005, in Baghdad,...

Crooks & Liars interviewed MilitaryTracy today, right after the rally in Crawford. Listen! It’s terrific. Update [2005-8-13 22:27:49 by susanhu]: Would you like to cry tonight?Listen to John at Crooks & Liars doing...

Crossposted at Sacred Space: Reflections from the religious left Recently, I shared what I heard at an interfaith forum in Columbus. We had a Muslim woman (local pediatrician Asma Mobin-Uddin), a rabbi and a priest as speakers....

I use the term “Moral Left” to make a distinction between the Old Left of interest and patron-based politics and the New Left of value-based politics.  In truth, the Moral Left is not so much new as it is more...

This is an OPEN THREAD but I thought it’d be fun to talk books too. For my birthday, BooMan sent me “What It Takes” by Richard Ben Cramer. It is an exhaustive exploration of what kind of people it takes to make...