Author: spiderleaf

[From the diaries by susanhu. A must-read / must-bookmark / must-discuss grand and disturbing work by Spiderleaf.]I’ve been watching the “reconstruction” efforts, the press conferences, the misinformation, the...

Just when you think Rove must just be having a bad case of the Monday’s & things can’t keep being this out of control, comes a report today from Editor & Publisher which is a rather bizarre development in the...

[From the diaries by susanhu.] This is incredible. This is obscene. Is this legal? Are they going to claim these are “militia’s”? Private contractors with the power to make arrests and use lethal force. Not...

Or better known as… People are dying. Poor people are dying. They are dead. Many, many of them. Not from the storm. But from a man-made disaster. One that was wholly preventable. I do not care to argue your points...

I turned to poetry to help alleviate my sorrow and found these two from Percy Bysshe Shelley that speak to me… maybe they will to you too. I threw in a couple of Buddhist teachings as well as they appear to illustrate my...