Month: May 2006

We’re Sorry. We can’t locate your host. She must be with the Midwest Message Board. So, this is an Unhosted Cafe. Self-serve food and drinks. Newspapers are located near the door next to the newspapers. Please...

Welcome to the Froggy Bottom Pirate’s Pub All Pirates should introduce themselves to the Buxom Wenches. Your host tonight is Maryb. Hooks and parrots must be checked at the door. Please recommend (and unrecommend the...

My brother thereisnospoon wrote a diary on Kos that is current on the rec list at the time of this posting–and frontpaged in Green here–arguing that we will not do as well in 2006 and 2008 because of the apparent...

After the events of 9/11, the US has dramatically altered the political landscape for positive immigration reform, and so has the old adage that good fences make good neighbors. The saying has now taken on a new meaning now that...

The question arises: what is the government’s (and, in particular, the Bush administration’s) motivation for its domestic surveillance and recently revealed telephone data gathering programs? Oh sure, they say...