Month: February 2006

Crossposted at Dailykos Mardi Gras is on my mind this weekend.  This afternoon, I tried to explain it to my friend’s two-and-a-half year old.  I don’t think she understood.  She’s never seen a...

In the north of Laos, the US and UNODC decided that there would be complete opium prohibition, no matter how or what the cost. They lived up to that. They eradicated most of the opium, and a few thousand children. But events...

Johnny Weir makes no apologies.       Us says that the flamboyant figure skater has gotten into hot water for running his mouth and “dissing judges (he referred to the Eastern Europeans as...

In the spring of 1917, Hotochee, my grandmother’s 14-year-old sister, stood barefoot in the spongy soil on the north shore of Lake Ochochobee and married Davis, an 18-year-old farmer’s son. Three months later, just...

Spend Early Morning at the Froggy Bottom  Diner This is an Unhosted Cafe. MaryB will be along a bit later this morningso hang out here till her cafe is ready. Reprobates and dissolutes welcome Please recommend (and...