Month: September 2005

This poem is what came out when I could shake off the despair of the past two weeks. The people cry for water. The president gives them . . .   Stones For Bread The people cry for water. The president gives them words. The...

You all went and made this site so popular that it killed our server. Well, actually, you haven’t quite killed it, but you have made it choke on all your great writing. Too much data. By tomorrow, we should be up on a new...

I just finished transcribing Howard Dean’s segment on the Ed Shultz show, airdate September 8. Ed is a lot better at letting Howard talk than Randi Rhodes was. They go over some familiar ground, but there’s some new...

Or – how to build a fortune on a national tragedy. The Bush-administration has by many been considered a total failure in dealing with the consequences of the hurricane.  How wrong they are! The two last weeks have...

Many of you have bought the most interesting books, even a DVD, through our new partner, Powell’s, the large independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Your anonymity is safe: We can’t see who buys which books, but...