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'Hey World, Whatcha Say; Should I Stick Around (the Café) for Another Day?'

By we are stardust on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:04pm |
If you don't care for personal blogs, Universal Theme blogs, strictly non-political blogs, be warned: this one ain't for you. If you've never faced the Dark Night of the Soul, either for yourself or for humanity, or your brothers and...
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O, the Bounty of the Hard-won Garden!

By we are stardust on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 9:12pm |
You all know how it is that when we work hard for something, or save hard for something, we appreciate it ever so much more?  That's how it is for me and my garden...   My garden's a wee thing...
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What's Your Sign?

By we are stardust on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 9:37pm |
Ruta's yesterday-blog was one of his best, IMO.  He called it Sand, and featured a photo of a sign on a road in the middle of a desert of sand.  If I can paraphrase, he said its impact was such that it...
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New Ratchet Effects and Class in America

By we are stardust on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 2:13pm |
We've become accustomed to the Ratchet Effect in American politics, the idea that our politics keep moving to the Right.  (Thanks, Ellen.) Loosely speaking, some other Ratchet Effects are occurring. One huge one concerns the migration of wealth upward; recent...
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My Songs Have Gone Missing

By we are stardust on Sun, 08/22/2010 - 5:39pm |
  My songs are missing, and I don't know where to find them.  For so long they were just there; I took them for granted.  I feel as though I should, or at least want to apologize to them; and...
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UN Changes Gears on Gaza Flotilla Investigation

By we are stardust on Sun, 08/15/2010 - 8:46pm |
On August 2, 2010, Israel yielded to calls from the US and the International community to participate in an independent investigation of the May 31 attack on the Mavi Marmara in which in which Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish pro-Palestinian...
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All Around the Mulberry Bush, the Monkey Chased the Weasel: Afghan Time-clocks

By we are stardust on Sat, 08/14/2010 - 12:34pm |
(Yuri Cortez/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images...American and Afghan soldiers on a joint patrol last week in Kandahar Province. Military officials say the counterinsurgency strategy needs time to work.) The Obama White House is getting a wee bit nervous that...
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Elizabeth Warren Uncovered What the G Did to 'Rescue' AIG, & It Ain't Pretty

By we are stardust on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 9:57pm |
Based on an article by this name by William Greider, The Nation  (published at Alternet by this blog title)  Most of us at the Café are Warren fans; she minds The People's business in a most spectacular fashion.  What...
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Memo From Kabul Conference: 2014 Date for 'Security Takeover'

By we are stardust on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 12:27pm |
Don't they look Happy ? I forget what we may have been invited to focus on around July 20, 2010.  But it apparently wasn't the International Donor Conference on Afghanistan in Kabul that week.  Hillary Clinton and Ban Ki-Moon...
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Prop 8 in California Overturned!

By we are stardust on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 5:24pm |
9th Circuit District Court Judge Vaughn Walker offered a 136-page decision in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, firmly rejecting the Prop 8 law passed in November 2008. UPDATE: Here's Judge Walker's conclusion: Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational...

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