Month: November 2005

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing. image and poem below the fold A family buries a relative who was killed...

While the House wastes its and the American people’s time, let’s go deeper. Here’s some news that’s fit to print: The best op-eds today are not so much about last night’s embarrassing shouting and...

Congressman Murtha’s comments are welcome, and are long overdue for my tastes.  However, I also have voted against the thugs since my first presidential election, Carter V. Raygun in 1980, so anything that takes some...

A reply to aden’s recent post about the mistreatment of foreign workers by US forces in Iraq, Debt Bondage, Fraud, & Coercion on US Bases in Iraq.  (And an elaboration on my previous diary, Our Beautiful Minds as...

[From the diaries by susanhu.] Look, I’ve never been much of a C-Span type.  I really haven’t watched my “government in action” in real time probably since the Watergate hearings.  So maybe my...