Month: September 2005

The Daily Pulse blog is up and running, and we are looking for regular contributors to write columns on the pulse of the world.  If you’re interested, please drop me an email. Today, I’ve cross-posted The Middle...

The United States is now nakedly exposed to contingent events for another 3.5 years, until Bush leaves office.  Mediocre Republican minds and a philosophical antipathy to government intervention underpin this situation....

While it is much more important today to focus on the plight of the affected populations – to evacuate those that still need it, and to help those that have lost everything, it is also becoming clearer eache day that the...

The (heartbreaking) spectacle of a major American city crippled, falling apart and now being virtually abandoned by the authorities is what really emboldens whatever terrorist enemies we have.  This sort of thing is what...

Here we are getting ready to drive down from VA to the suburbs of Atlanta to do the final move-out on a house we expect to close on 9/9. Last night I read a diary on dKos by dbratl reporting on panic gas buying in Atlanta. This...