Month: April 2006

Perhaps because of my own background as a psychiatric social worker, I find this analysis from Harvard-trained psychoanalyst Justin Frank very accurate: We have a drunk as president, a drunk with a history of being able to do...

“[I]n times of crisis it’s interesting that people don’t turn to the novel or say, ‘We should all go out to a movie,’ or ‘Ballet would help us.’ It’s always poetry. What we want to...

In My America We have done everything that we feasibly can to protect our citizens from terrorist attacks. We do not invade a country that has not posed an imminent threat to us and will have cost us $365 billion by the end of...

Newcomer Check-In Time at the Froggy Bottom Café Grab a cup of coffee from the coffee cart. Your host today is Maryb. Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from...

Yes, he’s a big fat hypocrite, as well as a inverterate liar. However, there’s no room for schadenfreude in my heart today. Not when this is still going on (via Raw Story): As the United States prepares a team of 30...