Month: March 2006

According to FarmWorkers.org, in 1965, America imported 177,000 temporary Mexican workers known as “braceros” to help bring in the crops. These were terrible jobs under terrible conditions, politically invisible at...

[also posted at daily kos] When Howard Kaloogian’s Move America Forward Truth Tour traveled to Iraq to take pretty pictures last summer, the delegation apparently stopped in Baghdad between July 11 and July 15.   The...

I love electoral democracy.  I really do. Unlike the Howard Beale character in the classic film Network, who said “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” — the best thing...

Sass Em Back 101 that would be Sally, Aloha, San Diego Dem, manee, Shirlstars, babaloo, cali and kamahya and meDiane101…Shirl wrote the first part following here and I will upload some picture shortly… The night air...

So I write a long happy story and hit submit and my computer crashed. It’s been that kind of day. I did our taxes today. The kids always seemed underfoot as I’m trying to find the paperwork for 1099s, I owe money to...