Never forget

With all the focus this week legalizing discrimination against fellow Americans, it’s easy to forget the hell we have unleashed on other folks.  In fact, you might say that is exactly why we are even discussing gay marriage at this point – it certainly hasn’t been important enough to talk about for the last two […]

Read it all, this is important.

From much closer to the front lines than I could stand. This is just a small part of her entry today: Baghdad Burning: “All morning we’ve been hearing/watching both Shia and Sunni religious figures speak out against the explosions and emphasise that this is what is wanted by the enemies of Iraq- this is what […]

Blue, as in “out of the”

A couple of weeks ago a friend called me. He’s not a close friend, but he’s more than an acquaintance. Whatever. Anyway, he was just calling to check about something I was working on. We hadn’t talked in a while, but before I could say “happy new year” he told me what’s been going on. […]