Category: long story short

For an often-morose moper, I have lots to be grateful for. I’m healthy, young(-ish), privileged, and free. I work at home. I live in a beautiful mediterranean climate. I have maintained a love affair for over a decade. I am still learning to know myself better, to listen to my body, to express my emotions.…

Full text: bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’

Harley Sorensen has some, on balance,very wise advice for the Democratic party in Dems Must Change To Win In ’04 / View from the left: To win in 2004, the Democrats must return to their roots, rather than continue their recent insipid balancing act, an act that has turned them into spineless, lukewarm Republicans. But…

Tom Tomorrow describes three scenarios and asks you to guess which actually happened and which are outlandish satire. I should probably just link to the cartoon every Monday….

The Well is a private conferencing system, its “current” topic notoriously incivil, and yet there’s been a great discussion there lately, with a frank exchange of a wide range of views about geopolitics today and the war on terror, and little patience for unexamined truisms Since I only “own my own words,” I can’t provide…

I’ve been in there rooting for “San Francisco Democrat” Nancy Pelosi, though I know her mainly as a fundraiser, and cutting her some slack as she tries to reposition the Democrats in congress, but Huffington put her finger on a real concern in her Salon column today: Turning her gaze on the smoldering ruins of…