Month: December 2005

Susanhu’s fine frontpaged diary Chicago: City of the Pinched Shoulders catalogues Chicago’s recent refusal…attempted and failed secret refusal… of an offer of discounted diesel fuel from Hugo Chavez. A...

The tragedy that we call the Vietnam War began with a piece of deceit known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Congress granted the executive branch special powers that were then used to justify an ever escalating amount of...

This diary isn’t adding anything new. It’s just for the record. The record is important. It is common knowledge that Congress voted to pass the Iraq War Resolution. Yet the media hardly ever mentions that we are to...

Visitors to the NSA’s website may have received more than just information about the agency.  It seems that computer files or cookies were being placed on visitor’s computers.  Cookies are used to track web...

Sylvia Plath, you are one of my favorite poets, though 40 years dead.  So forgive what I have done to your poem “Daddy.” See it, below the fold:DeLay You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which we...