Author: blksista

When I first read these words by this woman nearly forty years ago, they blew me away. I was about fifteen. Of course, they were meant to blow the reader away…figuratively. The poet was referring to Vietnam as well as the...

Assbackery 101, second semester, 2007: This story came in last night, but The Guardian picked it up: The 2006 hurricane season turned out to be mild, and the new pumps were never pressed into action. But the [U.S. Army]Corps [of...

Promoted by Steven D. Is there nothing Bush won’t do to screw over Democrats, no matter how much suffering he causes? Bush and FEMA under David Paulison are playing political favorites again. Any state with a Dem governor...

Crossposted from the Orange Zone. Including Stacy Bannerman’s, the author of this article which was written for the February issue of The Progressive: It is the soldiers, their families, and the people of Iraq that pay the...

Crossposted at Kos. Via the New Standard, from the AP: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimated there were 754,000 homeless people in 2005, including those living in shelters, transitional housing and on...