Crossed posted at My Left Wing It is ironic that with the ascension of the Barack Obama candidacy many people believe that it is ringing the death knell for the civil rights movement as we have known it....
Read MoreAfter frantically looking around for perspectives on Georgia that were in my language (as someone who is very very bad at Risk and Diplomacy), I found an excellent blog post, written by a linguist:...
Read MoreIT’S WAR, FORGET THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN THIS FALL No need to bomb Iran, the Neocons got the Georgian conflict to play hard ball. This is George Bush’s Berlin moment, US goods airlifted into Tbilisi with Russians...
Read MoreThere are five potential vice-president picks that I would be enthusiastic about, there are five that I could live with, there are four that I’d be disappointed about, and there are two that would just plain piss me off....
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