Month: October 2006

Stephen Sondheim wrote the mournful, haunting tune “Send in the Clowns” for the 1973 musical “A Little Night Music.”  As with many of the songs, poems, ballads and stories I’ve selected for...

Warning: The following includes some language from Right Wingnutistan that may require a hazmat suit before proceeding further.  You have been warned. You knew it was coming.   With all of the “yes, Foley should...

I wrote about the problems with Condi Rice’s pre-9/11 performance in my February 2004 article, What Was Bush Thinking On 9/11? (.pdf). It’s important to revisit these issues in light of the recent revelations that...

I’m not very sanguine about the effect Predatorgate will have on the upcoming elections. It seems every time one of these examples of Republican corruption surfaces (Duke Cunningham, Abramoff, Bush’s AWOL military...

Cross posted at the front page of My Left Wing. More “good news” from the “central front.” Remember that “stand up, stand down” thing young Mister Bush told us was going to be our way out of...