Washington, March 14 -- Last Wednesday evening, the House Appropriations Committee voted to throw another $67,000,000,000 at the murderous work in Iraq and Afghanistan. That night members of the committee, righteously indignant and nearly...
14 March 2006
I can’t get Three 6 Mafia’s Academy Award winning lyrics out of my head: “You know it’s hard out here for a pimp. When he tryin’ to get this money for the rent. For the cadillacs and gas money spent.”
And every now and then,...
And every now and then,...
08 March 2006
Detroit hosted Super Bowl XL in February amidst a city staggering with nearly 50,000 abandoned houses and a 14.1% unemployment rate. Police swept the homeless off the streets to project a goodly image to the world.
The...
The...
08 March 2006
As a progressive ‘yellow-dog’ Democrat who happens to work in the Ports for New York Harbor find it urgent to speak on the current Dubai fiasco.
Republicans and Democrats alike have taken aim at this takeover of the...
Republicans and Democrats alike have taken aim at this takeover of the...
08 March 2006
The perpetual war on women’s lives continues unabated. The recent U.S.
Supreme Court ruling that allows protestors to continue to terrorize women
at abortion clinics and South Dakota’s ban on virtually all abortions (with
other states...
08 March 2006
NEW ORLEANS, LA Carnival 2006...As a mild sociopath with a fear of crowds
and parades, I had been awaiting this event with a mixture of childlike
anticipation and abject terror. Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, marks the end
of the revelry...