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happening-here?
http://happening-here.blogspot.com
commentary on our hopes and terrors
with homage to Frank Zappa, Sinclair Lewis,
and to everyone who has ever wondered: "can it happen here?"
- Added on: May 4th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Politics News & Media Society
- Tags: fun san francisco history iraq campaigns racism
Recent Posts
Steny Hoyer, the Party of No and us
Ezra Klein reports a speech by House Majority Leader Congressman Steny Hoyer (he's Nancy Pelosi's wily assistant and competitor for influence) about the inability of Congress to move on much of anything, mostly because the Republicans are committed t...
Why we need the Copenhagen conference to succeed
This delightful experimenter [2:20] illustrates how human-generated increases in carbon and other greenhouse gases are heating up the planet. Heating up the planet means climate will change. A dependable climate -- predictable weather and atmosphere ...
Health care reform shorts:Deficits matter more than people?
It has been hard to understand why, having set the health care reform train in motion, the President and administration generally have seemed unwilling to dig in and push to get a reform that people will appreciate. After all, if you take actions tha...
For my Episcopalian friends ...
This afternoon I had a truly traumatic experience. Because I have terrible teeth, I go to the dentist frequently. Fortunately, I have a wonderful, friendly dentist, so the experience is not quite as awful as it might be.My dentist has a flat screen T...
U.S. isn\'t going anywhere; Welcome to President McCain\'s 100 year war!
Just in case anyone was confused about what Obama meant in his Afghanistan speech, assorted poobahs went on TV today to to set the citizenry straight; their message amounted to: "don't go taking the President at his word about that 2011 withdrawal da...
A jaunt through the hills
These feeding deer didn't bother to run away as I approached through the late afternoon shadow near Rodeo Beach.These crows didn't see any reason to fly away from a lumbering human either.I wasn't expecting to find evidence of the stimulus on the tra...
