Author: Aaron Barlow

"Come On People Now"

[This is crossposted from dKos] As Cindy Sheehan does what we all should be doing, I am reminded of a few song lyrics, not uplifting, not joyous but inspired by necessity.  I would like to share a bit of them below the...

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Things We Can Do About Niger

This is an expansion on a comment I made in response to Shanikka’s diary over at MyLeftWing on Niger.  I posted the diary there, but thought it worth posting here, as well. The first thing we can do in response to the...

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With Abject Apologies to Lewis Carroll

However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close to it, she saw clearly that it was...

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"A New Kind of Evil"?

Back, less than a week after 9/11, when George Bush saidThis is a new kind of–a new kind of evil.  And we understand.  And the American people are beginning to understand.  This crusade, this war on...

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