The release of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Committee report might persuade those still holding on to the George Bush approach to Iraq to finally get off that disasterous sinking ship. But…
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# Journal Entry
It’s that time of the year again; time for Zu-Zu’s petals. But first, a few words on a related “seasonal” film; one that I haven’t seen tree dozen times,…
[Continued from 36.7] On the fourth day we were on a northward heading in the Moçambique Channel between the African continent and the Island of Madagascar. This is an…
Back in 2006 there was the Michael Richards incident. Since I never watched Seinfeld, I had no idea who this guy was; so the furor over his racial slurs on…
Chickenhawks Abroad When traveling these days the next best thing to not rushing into the street in Sadr City and yelling “Mohammed was a gay alcoholic with a Jewish grandmother,”…
[Continued from 36. 6] I had noticed the first day that almost everyone in the group had a bible. Donald’s was one of those with a leather cover,…
Ron reached across the table and grabbed my hand. “I know there aren’t many things we agree upon,” he said, also taking his wife’s had in his left, “but…
I quit the Roman Catholic Church (you don’t really “quit” as such, there is no resignation form or anything like that, you just stop showing up) in the early 1960s.…
When a semblance of democracy returned to America this past week I was about as far away from my country as it had become from its principles. I did…
My grandfather, Sebastian (see, No. 10.3, Archives), was the ultimate urban scavenger. After he died it took weeks to throw out the accumulation of decades of his stopping to…