Month: January 2006

We recently invested in a Tibetian rug.  We purchased it from a man we know, who gets them directly from a collective of Tibetian refugees.  It’s made out of pure wool, hand-tied, -spun and -dyed. It took four...

The Domino Theory Returns. Latin America is in the throws of a democratic revolution, that has driven right wing governments from office, and left a rising tide of Bolivarian sentiment sweeping over the continent. In its wake...

For the right, what’s old can be new again. Teases Matt Drudge tonight, Gertz: NSA whistleblower asks to testify; Vows to describe illegal intelligence operations… DEVELOPING…. No link yet. I assume that Gertz...

Ariel Sharon might seem to be a classic case of a cerebral episode waiting to happen. He was certainly very overweight and 77 years but he had pressures other than just being Prime Minister of Israel, setting up a new party and...

“Watergate was a kindergarten picnic,” Cedwyn wrote here in a diary on January 3rd. “Desmund Tutu,” continues Cedwyn, “has said that America’s current political climate reminds him of...