Month: September 2006

[Crossposted from my Real History blog.] Come on, ABC. This should be simple. Fictionalize the non-essential elements all you want. Tell the truth about the key facts that matter. ABC appears to have done this in reverse as any...

…No doubt, the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, and the subsequent decades of expansion from war have been a blistering experience for every side, most notably the American taxpayer. Attacks against civilians are...

Lest we get all distracted by the anniversary of 9/11 and forget we should impeach these motherfuckers post haste, here is a refresher. “The secretary of defense continued to push on us that everything we write in our plan...

A blast from the past, as a friendly reminder. This is a repost from three years ago at about this time. Rings every bit as true this year as it did last two years (note that I made a couple minor changes – Sept. 11th is...

the presser, the cutter, the wringer, the mangle, the needle, the union, the treadle, the bobbin, the bosses — Katherine Weber, “Triangle Oratorio”, from her novel Triangle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.)...