Month: September 2006

Lee Siegel is indeed God. He’s also known as spezzatura, a sockpuppet that sings his own praises. The ridiculous Franklin Foer has shit-canned Siegel’s blog and suspended him from The New Republic. That’s too...

From "Mindless in Iraq," by Peter W. Galbraith in The New York Review of Books, a set of reviews of Iraq-related current affairs titles. As we now know, Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon had no plan to secure any part...

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war we love and support our troops, just as we love and support the Iraqi people – without exception, or precondition, or judgement. three images and poem below the fold...

By law, Mexican President Vicente Fox had been due to give a valedictory state-of-the-nation address to Congress before he steps down later this year. But, there were rumors that Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his...

…At its core, populism stands in stark contrast to elitism and, therefore, by definition a populist would be against all forms of elitism: social, political and economic. In our present national condition, that means being...