Month: January 2007

To Madam Speaker: About New Orleans

I just came from the Orange Zone.  Despite all the front page exuberance about her accession to power tomorrow, and how this is going to make American history, I just cannot feel anything for Nancy Pelosi just yet. Here is...

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Thursday News Bucket

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.  – Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977; US computer engineer & industrialist Nope, can’t think of a single...

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Official launch of Progressive Wave

As everyone knows, today is the day that the 110th Congress – one in which the Democrats, for the first time in 12 years, will control the House and the Senate – is sworn into power. Personally, I’ll be...

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Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 456

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 judgment we have no sympathy for the devil. we...

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