READ PT ONE: TREASON “It’s like a great darkness falling; it’s the beginning of forgetting.” – Marguerite Duras PART TWO: CASUALTIES For just about as long as we’ve been at war there the recent and distant history of Afghanistan has been wrapped in a cloud of myth that’s worked hard to obscure the context of

“The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility.” – Chris Hedges PART ONE: TREASON There are one or two things ahead that your friend and humble narrator here simply avoids having to discuss, that are deflected plus joked about rather than detailed whenever they come up—but that nevertheless form

The other day I got into a conversation with a co-worker concerning how the right-wing’s off stated desire to partition the country would be just fine with both of us [just as long some manner of land swap could be arranged for Austin]. Now usually that kind of separatist talk amongst self identified progressives would

So at this point it would be somewhere beyond pointless to recount the details of the Shirley Sherrod story, everyone already knows them and I don’t really want to get into it anyway. I want to have my say and ask a fairly simple question about something else – something related and crucial to –

Ok so for about the last day and half I’ve been trying to think of a name. We [meaning the United States] desperately need someone to replace the decidedly disappointing  Karl Eikenberry as U.S. Ambassador in Kabul … The thing is that name would need to belong to a person who was a couple a

Ok so it’s pretty obvious that Evan Bayh is “retiring” because he’s an angry … angry … angry little girl-man forever stuck at the brink of womanhood. He’s angry at us liberal activists primary voter types for having ignored him, he’s angry at lefty bloggers for criticizing whenever he acts like he’s Evan Bayh, angry

Ok folks … here are the names of the Senate “Democrats” who eschewed logic, reason and logic [I like logic] to vote in support of F-22 funding: Sens. Chris Dodd (Conn.), Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray (Wash.), Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Jeff Bingaman, Tom Udall (N.M.) (Udall’s Colorado cousin, Mark, voted to kill

“Hardly a day goes by without the op-ed page of the Washington Post carrying an article by a veteran of the Bush Administration holding forth on foreign policy. Michael Gerson, a former Bush speechwriter and policy advisor, even has a regular columnist gig. And today Yosemite Sam advocates bombing Iran. It’s as if in 1969,

FREEGATE For some reason it looks like Freegate — popular amongst Chinese users seeking to get around the Great Firewall. What’s even better is that multiple ground reports from Iran tell me it’s even fast! With Freegate’s tiny size of 400k, people can pass this around on tiny thumb drives or grab it from one

Here’s a rough translation of her whispers of …. “Tomorrow is the Saturday of destiny….Tonight the Allaho Akbar is louder than other nights….Where is this place? A country were people have only God left to reach out to… This is a country where every night people’s scream of Allah O Akbar is louder than the