Month: January 2006

This is from an acquaintance of mine: To explain my email address. The Golden Notebook is a phenomenal and highly sociological novel by Doris Lessing, published in 1962. In it, the protagonist has four different notebooks into...

“Friendly fire” often takes the lives of soldiers; rarely is there any discussion in the press of “friendly penile fire” & its attendant consequences. In a startling revelation, the former commander...

Dear Senator     Just a brief note to thank you for not allowing yourself to get involved in the messy war of saving the Bill of Rights and the rest of our wonderful Constitution.  Heaven forbid that you...

Alito Infamy.      On December 7th, 1941, an attack was made on the American fleet in Pearl Harbor.  On 8 December, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed Congress and referred to December 7th, 1941,...

Cross posted at Daily Kos and Stories in America: This is unbelievable. Women soldiers serving in Iraq aren’t drinking enough water after dark because they’re afraid they’ll be raped when they go to the...