Month: January 2007

This is an Unhosted Cafe. Sit down, have some coffee, and try not to get newspaper ink on your clothes. Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)

In todays London based, “Independent on Sunday” Wesley Clark has written a piece slamming the planning of the Iraq war and the idea of the “surge” of maybe 20,000 (30,000 in some reports) US troops in...

I can plot the course of my life by the books and authors that have influenced me.  Dune by Frank Herbert is one of those books.  I believe it will come to be seen as one of the defining books of my generation. So many...

This is an Unhosted Cafe. Self-serve food and drinks. Lewd, rude, and crude — that’s how we grow ’em around here. Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) May the 4’s be with...

   The money sponge, Iraq, having filtered funds to and from various budgets, is hard to squeeze dry fast enough to employ defunding the war as an efficient means to get us out.  Barney Frank, new chair of the...