Author: nine

Like others I know, I have been vacillating between certainty that McCain can’t win and fear that he will.  Mostly I believe the long Republican nightmare is over – Obama is too good a candidate to lose to such...

There is an article in the NYT today titled, “Rice Says Bush Authorized Iranians’ Arrest in Iraq” by Sanger and Gordon.  It includes quotes from Rice and Gates stating that US troops are authorized to go...

Right wing lies need to be confronted. Right wing liars say people who are against the war in Iraq are weak on terrorism. This is a lie, which is to say (1) it is an assertion that cannot stand when scrutinized against reality,...

here’s my cent: The question of morality or ethics is the question of HOW TO BE A GOOD PERSON. Since personhood is irreducibly a SOCIAL phenomenon, the question of morality or ethics is a social issue — how to act in...

As I have noted before, I think it is important to have long and medium term idealist visions of what a better society would be like even as we engage in pragmatic strategies and tactics to resist tyranny and improve lives in...