Month: August 2006

(crossposted from Mannys blog) The are times when I absolutely need the comfort of others, because alone, I simply cannot bear to see and to know what I see and know. Not alone, for even one more moment.   Reading of the...

Some days, you have to wonder if the yellow ribbon crowd means anything more with their “Support the Troops” magnets than “Go Blow Up Some More A-Rabs for 9/11!” I ask because the politicians in the...

Kos calls it “people-power” politics; Noam Scheiber of The New Republic (TNR) in an op-ed in today’s NY Times calls it the power politics of “Counter-Bushies” taking over the Democratic Party....

Promoted by Steven D. Life, and death, goes on after Lamont v. Lieberman. Lebanese man loses 15 family members BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) 30 minutes ago — Ali Rmeity lies broken and bandaged on a hospital bed, wincing in pain....

In case any of you are feeling really good this morning, or are suffering under some false sense of well being, I have a cure for you. The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the...