Diplomats & Military Commanders for Change

A bi-partisan group of former US military commanders and diplomats held a press conference and issued a very strongly worded call for the defeat of the president this fall. Known as the Diplomats … Read more

Sometimes I Wonder

how the average middle-class German citizen felt in the late 1930s. (Someone said a better question is: “how did they feel in 1948?”) This editorial from the Chicago Sun-Times is thought provoking, to … Read more

Jay-Z’s Dead

Spinjunkies has released a new album, Jay-Z’s Dead, which “encompasses the entire Black Album by Jay-Z set to the music of the Grateful Dead”. It is a remix, similar to the Grey Album’s … Read more

Bumper Sticker Politics

Legal Torture; a legal memo doesn’t supersede US and international law. The Times and Iraq; a review of inaccurate and incomplete reporting by the NY Times in the period leading up to the … Read more

Maui Sunset

We’ve been busy the past couple of days, doing something we love: driving! We’ve circumnavigated both lobes of the island of Maui, first going around the top, smaller section, and the next day … Read more