Month: December 2006

(cross-posted at Daily Kos) Many of us have met Time’s choice for Person of the Year – You – with some derision. If the criteria of the award were to be literally followed (“the individual or group of...

(originally posted at kos) As a child, I used to sneak into the living room after dark and stare at the Christmas tree.  I’d watch the lights blink shades of red and blue upon the wall while listening to the slow...

So, I was wondering what, if anything, my good friend Karl Rove is up to these days. I mean, he just had his fat ass handed to him in the midterms and I kind of assume he’s a little less popular…perhaps a little less...

The topic below was originally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal. Across the political divide Americans understand our democracy has stopped working for them – unless they happen to be comfortably wealthy....

This started as a comment to Booman’s story, WSJ: Critiquing Blogs. As so often happens, there was a lot to think about and my comment entered that gray area between comment and diary. A dia-ment? Well, whatever it is,...