Author: sybil

Saturday Garden Blog w/poll

I DID Promise You a Rose Garden! Totem pole in the northeast corner of the rose garden welcomes visitors [more…]The plaque on the base of the totem pole reads: IN MEMORY OF ALL THE LOST YOUTH OF BRITISH COLUMBIA The totem...

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Canadian Reporter Beaten by Iranian Security

This happened in Ottawa, Canada in the Iranian Embassy. Reporters without Borders has the story. Canada: Documentary filmmaker beaten by embassy security guards […] Raouf was beaten when he was about to film absentee...

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FAKES?! Downing Street Memos

The right wing would love it if they were. They are fomenting a controversy akin to the CBS/Rather one in order to put the memos and their information in dispute. Michael Isikoff today on Air America hinted that they were fake...

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Chris Hitchens, left, right, center

O, Brother, Why Art Thou? VANITY FAIR article, July 2005 This arrived in my email box this morning. Love him or hate him, he sure can write. Left, right & center Punditologist Christopher Hitchens has now popped up in Iran...

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Bob Dylan, Prophet or Song & Dance Man

Dylan then Dylan today See the video. more…From the interview on 60 Minutes, the first in 20 years! Dylan is mysterious, elusive, fascinating – just like his music. Over more than four decades, Dylan has produced 500...

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