Month: December 2005

“Fur Is Dead” OPEN THREAD

I’ve been reading lots of stories on the assassination of “Lebanese lawmaker Gebran Tueni, a fierce critic of Syria,” and hope to have some sort of commentary up soon. In the meantime, my daughter sent the...

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NOLA Recovery As Seen Outside US

Thought I’d provide you with some grafs of an article from the Guardian. The article largely reinforces Duranta and blksista’s excellent diaries (more below the fold – updated to fix broken “nerdified...

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Understanding Torture

With new revelations appearing weekly about the officially sanctioned torture by our Government and its puppet in Iraq (see Meteor Blades’ diary for the latest “discovery”), it seems to me a necessity to try to...

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