Month: December 2005

I’m going to take a clip from a right-wing screed regarding so-called “America Haters” and use that as a means for understanding the mindset of those who bandy about the term “BooTrib haters.”No one...

Cross posted on Daily Kos Wed Dec 07, 2005 at 11:06:44 AM PDT Please don’t let this story go under the radar. Remember the faces of Katrina. Remember our fellow citizens being herded like cattle into the Superdome....

[From the diaries by susanhu. CNN has a story up, via Salon’s Daou Report.] Very little to report on this except that Patrick Fitzgerald and several deputies were seen carrying files into the grand jury area of the...

I promised a number of people that I’d write a World Fantasy Convention Report. So, World Fantasy Convention (WFC) was held in Madison this year, which is practically on my doorstep. I still don’t know if I have...

Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg released campaign spending data this week. Gotham Gazette that the records show that he spent $77.9 million of his own money on his re-election effort. In 2001 he spent $74 million.So, for the...