Author: ejmw

(I found this through Pope Guilty’s diary over at dKos) Truthout’s Jason Leopold wrote...

As many of you know, I was involved in a fraternity when I was in college.  A major part of...

As many of you surely do, I get seemingly hundreds of letters each week asking for contributions,...

In a year chock full of examples of Mother Nature returning fire against an earth’s population hell bent on destroying her, she has fired another salvo.  This time, it appears that she may be aiming for Nicaragua.

Meet Beta.  Not yet a hurricane, but rapidly developing into one.  The latest measurements from the National Hurricane Center tell us this tale:

I’m usually one for cold calculation over impassioned rhetoric.

Usually.  

So fucking sue me.

One of my biggest problems with our society right now is that we live in an atmosphere of fear (an atmosfear?  Maybe.)

And while we like to blame the Republicans for all of it, I’m here to say that fear is alive and well on the left too.

President Bush was elected (?) based on fear.  Fear of terrorist attacks.  Mushroom clouds, foreign crowds, mass destruction, reconstruction.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.  And I feel fine.

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