Over at the BlogBrothers, Bob Brady just posted a very touching remembrance of his father’s time in the Second World War. I have similar memories of my grandfather, who had been a soldier with the German army during the same war and who could never talk about his experience in Yugoslavia, even thirty years later. [...]
San Francisco still has an amazing number of corner stores. I can probably walk to about half a dozen little markets and liquor stores in a three block radius and I thoroughly enjoy buying at least some of our groceries there. The prices are not much higher than in the overpriced supermarket down the street, [...]
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their homes and everything they own. The water in New Orleans is still rising, and it is already clear that this is one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit a major metropolitan area in the US. This is New Orleans the day after the Hurricane: This [...]
I just read this astonishing article by Ellen Knickmeyer from the Washington Post who was with US Marines while they were on another futile mission along the Iraqi-Syrian border to root out the insurgents. Read it here: Looking for Battle, Marines Find That Foes Have Fled This article is so full of amazing quotes, I [...]
Streets littered with pieces of human beings. Pools of blood. Dying and dead piled on the asphalt. Is that the freedom we promised to the Iraqis? The freedom to die? Rocket-propelled freedom delivered by Apache Gunships? For one and a half years now we have been listening to Bush and his moronic henchmen promising all [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, the US has pretty much destroyed its credibility, and the US administration is already facing the results of that. Last week the Sudanese, of all people, criticized the United States for the torture of Iraqi prisoners. This was in response to the protest of the US against the re-election of Sudan [...]
Wars have been a human blight for as long as we have roamed this planet. I’m not sure if they will ever completely disappear, but nowadays, with global travel, instant information flow, mountains of laws and international agreements, I think we should be able to take them out of the mainstream, sometimes maybe still happening [...]