Fire Next Time
This is Catalina Island, across the channel from Santa Barbara — May, 2007. Fires are burning on the Florida — …
Monthly Archives: May 2007
National Security State
Andrew J. Bacevich, whose work on American militarism we have drawn your attention to, has a brief review of five …
Guestworker Programs
Update below The Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a report titled, Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the …
Health Scams
This front page article on Medicare Advantage insurers scaring and scamming the elderly and then billing Medicare for nice profits …
New Growth Out of the Old
Several folks have sent on this Paul Hawken article that appeared in AlterNet, out of Orion Magazine (both of which …
Religion Poisons Everything
Christoper Hitchens, bad boy of the left before he became a bad boy of the war enablers, is now joining …
Alabama Terrorists
You’ll remember the articles linked to last week about a raid on a group of Alabama terrorists. Well, it turns …
Obama and Repubs
This is a pretty damned interesting article. DISILLUSIONED supporters of President George W Bush are defecting to Barack Obama, the …
Greensburg, KS, Gone
Greensburg, KS Tornado, May 4, 2007 Category F-5 More Photos Searching for survivors Greensburg Gone: NYT Tornado Project Blame La …
Les Femmes et Les Hommes
“…she is looking at him, and he is looking at his audience…” A friend, a fine writer and translator, Allison …
Land Loss – Climate Change
This article about land loss in South East England doesn’t do a very good job explaining exactly how climate change …
Republicans Debate
Well they didn’t really debate. The secret contest was to see who could say Ronald Reagan the most times in …