What we have here is a liberal reporter's equivalent of a rap song - appropriate IMO, inasmuch as rap is the despairing shout of the disenfranchised. Krugman...
Hello John, Yes, it is very sad. Yes, we are the world's leading outlaw nation. It would be far better if nobody had nukes. I do not blame the Iranians for...
Hello ABers, Here is another Zimbabwe update: http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,1580559,00.html Reposted below my tagline for your convenience....
http://www.energybulletin.net/9394.html A Hobbit's Choice: Saruman or Sam by Alex Macsporan For those of you who have been living under a rock these last few ...
Hello ABers, This is a disturbing report if true. When you reach the very bottom rung of existence-- it must be absolutely heart-breaking to send your child...
Hello gr8scott8rg, Absolutely terrific post! Kudos and Applause! Now if we could only get Tolkien's Works, this excellent essay, and Dieoff.com as required ...
... A brilliant piece. I, too, read The Lord of the Rings almost every year, and The Silmarillion nearly as often. A perfect metaphor. Well done. Very well...
That is THE question to be asked and answered! Check out Ray McGovern's take on this, pasted below with link. GSC +++ Rogue Soldiers or Rogue President?...
... What a delightful contribution to our inquiry - what a relief from the dry reasonableness of the devout atheists who populate this conversation. Yet this...
That was a sad and disturbing piece on the trafficking of children. I have no doubt at all that it is generally true. This trafficking of children happens...
Hello ABers, Assume you are a reporter asking the common man in the street a few questions: 1. Who is our Secretary of State? 2. What is Haiti? Where is it? ...
Hello GS, Thxs for responding, and sadly confirming that little children WILL SUFFER THE SINS OF THEIR FATHERS. The Mothers of the world should be legally...
Hello Pondurenga, I just wanted to say again how much I enjoy your wordsmithing. Now if we could get Alex Macsporan to join our Asylum and grace us with some...
Deadly Bacteria Detected in US Capital During Anti-War March http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1002-01.htm Published on Sunday, October 2, 2005 by Agence...
I thought about mass-mailing this story, since I have quite a few friends and contacts who were there, until I noticed that in the WaPo article that they'd...
Thank you, Bob, As I step away from beautiful, kind, sun-drenched Berkeley to prematurely wander in the barren, smoking desolation that my brain foresees, I am...
Your two sets of questions were marvelous, Bob Shaw! Laden with an 'ironic understanding of our our sad (tragic?) reality', I believe. I do hope some...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051001/sc_afp/usstormenergyenvironmentbicycles_051001131406 4Bicycle sales boom in US amid rising gas prices Sat Oct 1, 9:14 AM...
... The report does not mention the part played by GW Bush himself! His misadventures on bicycles! He even fell down and grazed his knees! But despite all of...
From today's Progress Report: http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053 Sources Say Bush Directly Involved In...
" I think that petroleum depletion, and the eventual unavailability of the substance in significant quantity, is the single most serious matter that faces...
http://www.union-bulletin.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=28443 The Growing Cost of Growing Wheat By Andy Porter of the Union-Bulletin ...
Hello Mark, Good post! If one considers that most detritovore wealth or networth cannot be converted at a reasonable rate of return to overcome the ...
... Indeed it was. The last sentences, especially: "The outcome is not forgone one way or the other. The Powers of Night are old and strong, but they are not...
... Why? Because the US and Israel are the "Masters of the Universe", no less! (They surely behave as though that is their fundamental belief). And, alas, my...