T.A.S.S is of course the Russian State Newspaper and neither it nor its kin Pravda (ironically The Truth) had much of a reputation for useful or accurate journalism
Government aid for newspapers doesn’t fit the American ideas of a free press or capitalism very well. I really don’t think that there won’t be strings attached [...]
The summary –
The choice is simple — the reconstruction of the South, or the deconstruction of the U.S. economy.
Its probably the most important article I’ve read in a long time. It lays out much of the current internal crises and gives us workable solutions all at one time.
To Whit
The alternative to the [...]
from Boing Boing.
The next time you get the urge to have the state lock someone up I’d suggest you read the article first . Incarceration is the last resort in a free society and the first resort (other than murder and torture) of tyrants —
If we have the largest prison population in the [...]
This is important so go watch it or do as I did and download the mp3.
In this interview two of the last real journalists, Moyers and Greenwald explain what is going on in our country,with our freedom and our future as a free nation.
There is. no B.S. just hard truths [...]
I just wish Bush had been the man he wanted us to think he was.
The L.A. Times has a wrenching article here
and of course there are the tribulations of others, mostly very minor offenders in Oklahoma at this link.
These outcomes don’t surprise me very much. Far too much of our policy is driven by hysteria and ignorance as verses good science, compassion and reason
Worse the pander-monkeys who [...]
That was a bonehead play. Getting a record for, likely, making a false police report, is not the way to help your candidate. Its a low ploy to try the “pretty girl in trouble” “sympathy card too.
I don’t really wish jail on her or almost anyone else save some really violent types but some [...]
On the L.A. Times.
All I can say is amen. If I had Prosperlings I’d kick them outside pronto. Its good for them, good for you and your misses and because it teaches independence, is good for your country.
Despite what 24 and the “colored coded” wannabe fascist wants us to think, the terrorists are much of threat . First they are very far away . Second and more importantly they just aren’t all that effective.
All the stuff we are supposed to be afraid off. Mostly piffle.
Anthrax? The US had [...]
On Common Dreams.
This is wonderful news! While it won’t stop torture at least many California physicians and psychologists will now think twice about being a part of such atrocities.
My hats off to the legislature.