Month: September 2005

(Cross-posted at Daily Kos) And to any other liberals, Greens, progressives, disgruntled Republicans and what have you: As most of you know by now, an anti-war, anti-Bush administration rally (and in all honesty, is there any...

  Imagine we’re in the decade of the 1960s. Imagine that the civil rights movement is heating up. Imagine African Americans agitating for their rights as Americans, demanding equal protection, equal access to the...

There is an arc to history, and there is an arc in the development of American politics. It can be seen in the differential integration of varying immigration groups, and how they gained political power. And gaining political...

200 days ago. I can hardly believe it has been that long, yet it sometimes seems as though that time has flown by. For those who may not know, it was 200 days ago today when I had my last drop of alcohol. While this may not be...

I kid you not.  The year was 1954; I was three years old.  My parents had followed some impossible-to-understand dream of moving to the middle of the damn desert and building their very own cinderblock house.  So...