Environment: Oil Bug
There isn’t much good to talk about these days so this little article about oil-eating bacteria is at least a …
Category Archives: General
National Security: Who Are the Experts?
Glen Greenwald, How Would a Patriot Act, is one of the bloggers I turn to regularly. This post is worth …
Climate Change: Research
I remember, as a 10 year old in a new library, thinking it was possible to read all the books …
Foreign Interlopers
The Spanish believed in the early 1600s that they had a foreigners problem: the Moriscos. Granted, many of them had …
English and Irish: Arab and Jew
Today the Israelis are mercilessly bombing Lebanon, after, they say, the Shiia Hezbollah. Hezbollah is launching small rockets across the …
Woody Guthrie
I don’t have a lot of heros. Woody Guthrie is right at the top. For years I picked and sang …
Mumbai / Bombay Carnage
So why isn’t there more attention in the on-line world to the carnage in India? 200 dead, more than in …
Conservatives Without Conscience
This is a blockbuster interview of John Dean by Keith Olberman. Dean has just finished a book that started from …
Distributed Information — i.e. blogs
I haven’t been posting any snapshots of the fireworks going on between some old media guys (David Brooks, Martin Peretz …
North Korea — Oh, Never Mind
Hoax Watch, Day 10: No Nork Launch, After All
Olberman Slaps O’Lielly
My friends, this little video piece of Keith Olberman (MSNBC) giving Bill O’Lielly (FOX) some friendly, empathetic advice is better …
Bush Actions Unconstitutional
What a great way to wake up! CNN is leading with the news of the Supreme Court decision that the …