Month: January 2006

Whether or not the ancient Chinese actually had such a curse or it is just an urban legend, we are indeed living in interesting times. But “interesting” doesn’t have to be all bad. In quiet moments, which...

Original at DailyKos From the NYT: The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior...

I’ve written and called my own Senators.  I made it clear.  I don’t care what they have done for me in the past.  Alito has got to go.  And I told them they were accountable for their fellow...

This is a special memo to the “Love It Or Leave It!” pathologically patriotic Plutonians. (Plutonians, for the purpose of this memo, are those whose sense of reality is about as far out as the planet Pluto.) Take a...

Some say you can’t make the world better than it is. They say you ought to be sceptical about human nature, yet they urge you not to question potentially abusive conduct of the powerful. They say you hate America if you...