Protest Suicide, Please don't do this.
Yahoo News has a story about a man who was about to get married, who had a good job, but was so distraught over the election results that he killed himself in the most symbolic place he could think of...
View ArticleMass Suicide Attempt at Gitmo swept under carpet
CBS News is reporting that 23 or more prisoners at the Gitmo holding center attempted suicide. The actions occured in 2003 and the facts are just beginning to come to light now. It's clear that the US...
View ArticleMy Bill Moyers Moment. Reclaim the flag.
I was listening to this weekend's Prarie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor and had a Bill Moyers moment. For Memorial Day they were playing songs of America including the Star Spangled Banner. As I...
View ArticleThe Smoking Gun: It Takes Two Shots
The Downing Street Minutes are finally getting some attention in the press and finally someone directly asked Bush about it (although what did you expect Bush to say? "That's true, we did fix...
View ArticleThe 9/11 connection...
I woke up on Sept 11th 2001 and prepared for my first day on a new job. While putting on my socks I flicked on the old tele just in time for the morning hosts on GMA to say 'a second plane has run into...
View ArticleA new progressive magazine?
If there is something good coming from DailyKos and similar sites, it is that as progressives we're thinking about issues and developing policies and responses better than we have for the past couple...
View ArticleA cure for complacency?
I wrote this diary entry in response to another blog post that linked to my blog. The orignal author was depressed that coverage of the 4-year old's death at Disney World was taking away from the...
View ArticleThe new anti-Imperialism and the Democrats
The New York Times Magazine ran two articles aimed at talking Democrats off the ledge. The first, an insightful piece into middle America politics and the crystal ball that is Hank Hill and "King of...
View Articleit's my flag too
I wrote this in response to some comments that liberals are out of touch calling the Taliban and the American Taliban the same. It's not that there are no differences between the Taliban/Al Qaeda and...
View ArticleTerrorism, a natural phenomenom?
Dave Pollard's blog, How to Save The World, is almost always a refreshing voice of reason in a world that is often mad with hate, anger, fear, or some other self-preservation mechanism. This week he...
View ArticleKatrina: What do we do now?
I went to bed last night angry and woke up this morning inspired. It's time to affect change so that we as a nation, and as a citizen of the world, are never unprepared again. If this had been a...
View ArticleWhere is ABC News? (now with Poll!)
You know. I can't help but wonder what Peter Jennings would make of this mess. So far the word from ABC has been mostly silence. Robin Roberts from GMA went home to Mississippi for a few days, a few...
View ArticleRape, Beatings, Murder at the Astrodome... you read that right
Over on BoingBoing.net there's a IM session that has been posted with a blogging reporter who has access to the Astrodome and the people inside.12:29 Evacuee Irvin Skinner: We have a curfew. We're...
View ArticleEditorial: Hopelessness
Last night Bush spoke in platitudes only. He spoke of 'hard work' although he's never done a day of hard work in his life. His whole operation is self-preservation and cronyism. This is further...
View ArticleIn Katrina's Wake: A community comes together to Marry two who lost all.
There have been many tragic stories of loss, struggle, and hopelessness in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But there are glimmers of hope begining to shine through the cloudy skies. Here's one I read...
View ArticleThe Pending Economic Collapse: Linking Kidney Stones to Corporate Failure
Jaron Lanier (Wikipedia ) is mostly known for his dreadlocks and technological inventions. He has recently been chosen as one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals by The Prospect and Foreign...
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Collision: Animated Politics
Max Hattler has posted his animated film Collision on the net. It's a mix of Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colors and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection. The result is...
View ArticleThird Party is not a Zero Sum Game (w/ Poll)
I am this far (holds thumb and index finger about a quarter of an inch apart) from throwing in the towel. I think that the abandonment by the Democrats in the Senate of their constitutional duty to...
View ArticleHurricane Katrina: How one woman made a difference
I just stumbled upon this blogspot diary while doing a random search through recently created weblogs and I just had to get the word out. It tells the story of one woman, Rhonda Honegger, from...
View ArticleClass War: A Taxation System we can live with
One of the problems with getting out of this cycle of tax breaks for the rich and increased living expenses for the poor, is that now that it is easier to locate company resources overseas or even just...
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