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Bruce Gagnon on Endless War

New England United Antiwar Conference MIT Jan 30, 2010
Panel #1 The Drive Towards Empire and Endless War
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network
I worked with Bruce in his early days as a nuclear freeze activist in Orlando, Florida. He was a pretty good speaker and budding leader, though I had some minor issues with his style, but [...]

Concert to benefit Peace House & Church of the Open Arms

Checkered Past Concert
Batch says “Poignant, playful and sweetly subversive with warm harmonies – acoustic music that zings!”
WHAT: Benefit Concert for Peace House & Church of the Open Arms
COST: Free Admission – (freewill donations during concert gratefully accepted)
WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 13, 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 for
refreshments & [...]

The poster boy of the Roberts Court

I don’t know about you, but I don’t mouth words when I’m thinking. When I mouth words, slowly and carefully enough to be easily deciphered by non-professionals, I very much intend to be seen.
… the behavior of Justice Alito at last night’s State of the Union address — visibly shaking his head and mouthing the [...]

Today’s book haul

I went to Barnes and Noble today to buy a PHP tutorial.
Well, you know how it is. I also came home with:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which I’ve been wanting to read since it came out and got rave reviews with J.D. Salinger mentioned repeatedly.
Mountains Beyond Mountains:The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, [...]

A new look. Whatdaya think?

I’ve switched to a new theme, which I think is a bit cleaner and easier to navigate. I’m still tweaking it a bit, so don’t be surprised to see things get added, subtracted, moved or (temporarily) broken. If you find something not working as you think it should, a poke in my direction would be [...]

SCOTUS redesigns flag

Need a pep talk?

Tristero echos Digby: “Don’t give up.”
This country’s politics are clearly in a state of rapid, dramatic transition. A transition to exactly what is far from clear. The way I see it, we may resume our rapid descent into the abyss of fascism so ruthlessly engineered by Nixon, Reagan and the two Bushes.To be sure, that [...]

The Netroots War

I hate all this ideological arguing right now on the Left blogs. It’s getting worse than the Obama/Clinton divide. This is when we desperately need to be working on strategy — you know, what will actually work.
I’m progressive as anyone, but we have to consider what’s feasible in the current political reality, which is [...]

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