When the watchdogs are part of the problem
I often listen to "On the Media" on NPR, even though it usually feels like one is settling for wrist slapping when a good thrashing is in order. This morning they looked at coverage of the war in the...
View Article1 million Lebanese refugees
Last night on BBC radio, an artist in Beirut spoke about the conflict. There are over 1 million "displaced" persons (love that euphemism, as if people are merely shifting to another place while their...
View ArticleOpposite of "Cut and Run"?
What the hell is the rhetorical opposite of "Cut and Run"? It's such a mindless but effective phrase. Stay and Kill? As in, are you one of those Stay and Kill Republicans (or Democrats)? Leave and Let...
View ArticleAt Your Cervix, Sir
I write to clear up a misconception about the HPV vaccine. It protects against 4 strains of HPV, only 2 of which (16 & 18) are cancer related. It DOES work in males, clearly not to protect them...
View ArticleAn Amazing Movie, "Days of Glory"
Last night I saw an amazing movie, "Days of Glory," about the unheralded contribution North African Arabs from the colonies made in freeing France during World War II. The movie's French titles is "Les...
View ArticleSaving the planet--action alert
This morning I did something I’ve been meaning to do since last year. I went online and switched my energy supply company (ESCO) to one that supplied green power.And I'll still be saving money over...
View ArticleJohnston of BBC freed! Credits Hamas
After 16 weeks in captivity, BBC reporter Alan Johnston was freed by his kidnappers, the Army of Islam, this morning.As an insomniac who listens to the BBC throughout te night, one of the most moving...
View ArticleDouble Your $, Double Our Fun!
This was a Top Story in Pakistan's internet edition of Dawn, Pakistan's most widely ciculated English language newspaper, on January 4, 2005:US may double Osama reward WASHINGTON, Jan 23: The US is...
View ArticleThe Real Mandela--No Peacenik
Chaoslilliths diary on "Great People Who Have Changed"http://www.dailykos.com/...prompted this response, too long for a comment. In thinking of people cemented by past attitudes and words, the...
View ArticleI'm a Barack/Edwards slut...(w/poll)
Reading many of the candidate diaries and also recalling my own fervent love and faith in past candidates (Bill Clinton! Jimmy Carter! what a fool I USED to be, as Johnny Winter would say), I am struck...
View ArticleBack to Her Sluttish Ways...w/poll
Though not my first choice, HRC's ability to keep her shit together during this primary season has really impressed me. I saw Maureen Dowd's headline about HRC crying her way into the white house and...
View ArticleWhy all these mass killings in the US?
Have we all become so jaded that this doesn't get remarked upon? In the last week alone, FOUR public killings: I just ran across news of another public shoting, this one at Louisiana Technical College...
View ArticleWhy Clinton should not concede (yet)(w/poll)
Hillary Clinton is doing all of us progressives a big favor by staying in the race. I realized this last night as I watched the second amazing debate I have seen. Josh Marshall commented this morning...
View Article300,000 Troops suffer PTSD or Depression
Per the AP, a study by the Rand Corporation, not a liberal bastion, is documenting the enormity of the mental health crisis that the Iraq War is bringing to our shores:WASHINGTON - Roughly one in every...
View ArticleCritics Cost Jewish Educator Her Dream School
While we debate endlessly about the race card in the Dem primaries, it's alive and well on other fronts: There is an anti-Semitism already strong in this country that now targets Arabs instead of Jews....
View ArticleMyanmar cyclone, Katrina, People in Glass Houses...w/Poll
The. Chutzpah. Is. Unbelievable.: In a press conference yesterday, Laura Bush took the Myanmar junta to task for failing to prepare its citizens for the recent cyclone (est. death toll: 10,000) and for...
View ArticleClinton: People Behaving Badly, Behaving Worse
With each racial dogwhistle "misstep" of the Clinton Campaign, I have become more and more appalled. With each new variation on basic math in terms "how to count delegates," I have become more and more...
View ArticleOf Deadly Chinese Aftershocks, 9/11, and Tibet
Just before the Chinese nation was to start a 3-day period of national mourning for the estimated 32,000 dead in Sichuan, the latest in a series of aftershocks has shaken the region and killed three...
View ArticleChina bans free plastic bags
The Chinese join such countries as Bangladesh and South Africa in making the Great Leap Forward:China Bans Free Plastic BagsBeginning on June 1, all supermarkets, department stores and shops will be...
View ArticleAction Alert: Urge HRC to drop out? w/poll
HRC in her speech asked her listeners to go to her web site and share their thoughts.The splash screen says only to sign up to show HRC you support what she stands for.I gave my info and wrote:PLEASE...
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