Some of you may have already guessed that I am haunted by drone attacks. They have taken up residence in my brain, though to a lesser degree than the millions of pounds of explosives of all kinds that we rained...
Please understand I love the Café for so many reasons, and appreciate that Josh keeps it up, even though he says it's not a money-maker. I don't love the software problems. I posted a blog at 7:15 EDT this evening;...
(In case you missed these tidbits) In a split decision, the SCOTUS ruled that suspects must speak up in order to ensure the legality of their rights not to speak. Anthony Kennedy wrote that a suspect who speaks...
The 'summer offensive' (Hamkari Baraye Kandahar) in Kandahar will be the test case for US involvement in Afghanistan, according to Karen De Young at the Washington Post. She reports that administration officials say that the results will be the...
I wandered onto as Army website page last week in search of info about bunker-buster bombs, and read briefly about the Human Terrain Systems project (started in 2006), an 'initiative of the Army Training and Doctrine Command; career...
Dear Diary, This will be my last entry, and I don't know if anyone will ever read it; but I feel the need to chronicle what passes for life these days. My last entry was over three years ago, I...
Grayson is giving us a chance to have a little fun while we oppose funding of the wars In Iraq and Afghanistan; this was a real shot in the arm for me this morning. Another war-funding bill will...
I just put up two bird slideshows at my Posterous site for y'all; Flickr won't let me download them to Movable Type lately, so I can't blog them here. If the photos don't boot, just click on the first or...
There's been so much happening lately that it's been hard to know where to focus, and I missed all this; maybe you did too. Pardon the cut and paste; I'm not feeling well, probably from reading all that's discussed in...
I hated being fifteen; it was when I discovered that there wasn't a single 'grown-up' (what a stupid term) in the world who wasn't a damned hypocrite, and I hated every adult I could think of...what liars they all were. ...
Veteran Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who broke the initial story of the My Lai massacre and the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, spoke to an audience at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva the week of April 22,...
[Substitute your favorite metaphor: smashing us like bugs; walking over our backs on the way to the top; raping the planet and its resources....(don't be shy...)] A theory has been percolating its way up in me over the...
We lived in an apple orchard. Dozens and dozens of apple trees surrounded the house, and in the spring upon every breeze rode the soft sweet perfume of their blossoms, a gentle, clean scent tinged with the tiniest bit of...
Over the years, I lived in Boulder several different times; almost as though I were Metal to its Magnetic Forces. It's a college town, so there are bucket-loads of young people, and so many activities it can make...
I must ask this question out loud once every week or two (yeah; I'm sorta odd; shut up, ;-}); sometimes to probe the Universe for a response, sometimes to see what answer my hubby will come up with on...
Someone recently had a blog up entitled Does Race Matter. (My apologies I can't remember whose it was.) I checked the time stamp, got twisted around about what it meant, and spent an hour composing a reply. About...
Far in the southwest corner of Colorado rests the Sleeping Ute. His head is to the north, his feet to the south, his toes a volcanic outcropping. Legend has it that when he is angry, puffs of cloud...
Is there one near you? This is the week that may determine whether or not any meaningful financial reform is passed by Congress. Peter Drier, TPM guest blogger posted yesterday about the combined groups who will join together...
(Yes; image-pun intended...) Is there any hope that it can be strengthened? Who knows? All this is so fluid, and may be voted on at the first of the week. It looks unlikely that any truly meaningful financial reform...
Sometime in August of some year...we decided to go to Snake Dance in Hopi. This year it would be held in Shongopovi, Second Mesa. Howard Morgan, the then-famous Albuquerque weather man had been following the long summer...
