Month: December 2006

This is an Unhosted Cafe. Sit down, have some coffee, and try not to get newspaper ink on your clothes. Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)

Also at Kos. I don’t like to fall into full-bore paranoia, but after watching the Bush administration for six years, I’m more inclined to credit conspiracy theories than I am to believe in coincidence.  One the...

There hasn’t been any price for opposing Bush’s policies for a long time. There is no better evidence of this than the fact that the Democrats did not lose one House seat, one Senate seat, or one Governor’s...

The shallow minded will celebrate the execution of Saddam as a victory and perhaps as a watershed moment.  It ain’t either–i.e. victory or watershed.  If this is a pivotal moment it is simply turning a...

. Today I heard an interview of an Iraqi woman, now a Dutch citizen, who had left Kirkuk 12 years ago. She was shocked beyond disbelief what she found in Kirkuk, a city with complete lack of security and in near chaos. Civil war...