Month: December 2005

Original at Kos. Nik Cohn, the reporter who brought us, “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night,” which later metamorphosed into the seminal film, Saturday Night Fever, has now turned his attention to Southern...

. Crowd pelts Allawi at shrine A crowd hurling shoes, stones and tomatoes has prompted Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister, to cut short a visit to Iraq’s holiest Shia shrine during a campaign trip to the city of Najaf....

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 prisoner embraces his children during a...

Is your tree up yet? Do you do lights and all that stuff? Wreaths on the doors? Does the local paper photograph your castle every December? My cats have always loved the C’mas tree. It creates a new canopy to nap under....

I have been checking. As of 8:15 am, Saturday, December 3rd, 2005 George Bush’s war in Iraq had cost the United States some $223, 848, 120, 256.00, which works out to about $3, 400.00 per American family. And then there...