Author: lorraine

Media Girl commented on macho and conservatives the other day; she has since added to that discussion, and has been joined by the great folks over at Pandagon. I have commented a number of times as to my observations/fears that...

This is Robert Raymond. He died in 1916, in the trenches of France. He was my great-grandfather. His daughter, Hilda, will be 89 this year. She was born after he died. My great-grandmother, Edith, Hilda’s mother, died at...

Every soldier’s death diminishes me. Every time a roadside bomb goes off, somewhere in America, parents, brothers, sisters, children, neighbors, classmates feel the sudden sting of death. We have now sent over 1700...

My energy is flagging. (Oh crap. I just noticed the pun. I’ll let it fly.) The flag amendment, the Durbin apology, the general level of bullshit, deceit, and apathy that is in the atmosphere and which I’m picking up...

In Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning wrote of everyday German citizens, members of a police unit in Berlin, who were sent to Poland and there, practiced the messy slaughter of whole villages of Jewish children, women, and men....