Month: December 2005

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters we honor courage in all its forms cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing. image and poem below the fold An Iraqi...

One day some university may offer a Ph.D program in Plameology. It all depends on whether this investigation peters out or revs up. For those of us that have read every word we could find, poured over the timeline, examined the...

I got the message below as an email. I apologize if it’s old news but wanted to get it in front of a few more sets of eyeballs today. Seems like the least we can do… I have a special request. I’m sure many of...

US ambassador to Canada, David H. Wilkins apparently had a big impact with his recent speech in Ottawa.  Perhaps more than he bargained for. NYT link “Just think about this,” Mr. Wilkins, a former Republican...

Gadfly is Marty Aussenberg, a columnist for the weekly Memphis Flyer. Marty is a former SEC enforcement official, currently in private law practice in Memphis, Tennessee. (A full bio is below the fold.) Cross-posted at The...