Author: Gaianne

Even by European standards, America has always been greed-driven and violent.  Founded on drug-running (tobacco), genocide, slavery, and religious obsession, America has always pretended to be generating wealth, while in...

It is a strange feeling to be deeply touched by someone who never existed for me except as a string of ASCII characters.  But I have to accept it, as it is.  This past week I have been going over Oldman’s...

It is hard to take in that the first assault on Fallujah was over a year and a half ago.  A piece of collective punishment (and hence a violation of the Geneva Convention, not to mention human decency) on the part of the US...

Loan Nguyen, known to bloggers by his pen name Oldman, has died after a short illness this past week at the age of 32.  A frequent poster on Blogging of the President 2004, as well as his own blog–which so...

There is really not much to compare this to.  I would like to joke, like Monty Python, and say that no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.  Except that in America in the fall of 2005 it is not a joke at all.  It...