Month: September 2005

Via Crooks and Liars: Adopt a Family in Houston “I just received an urgent call to get this message out from the Cindy Sheehan camp. Anyone in distance of the Houston Astrodome get over there and adopt a family if you can....

I posted this at our Progressive Bloggers site, but Susan Hu read it and encouraged me to post it here… so here goes: I’ve been watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s horrific damage and I’ve been...

[From the diaries by susanhu. Some good news — they’re alive — but amidst horror. Anderson Cooper is on Larry King now — he is deeply upset — duranta refers to him below.] I’m alive. I’m...

Yellowtailed Black Cockatoos are impressively sized birds, nearly two feet from top to tail, and very noisy.    They are a bit clownish as well, often hanging upside down from one foot while eating something gripped in...

Crossposted at the Shadow BFA Blog So, Dennis Hastert says rebuilding New Orleans isn’t sensible? Wow–I can think of a lot of things that are less sensible than that. How about Bush gutting FEMA? I think that...