Phyllis Bennis discussed her analysis of President Obama’s Afghanistan escalation speech in a conference call with community activists Thursday afternoon. Links to her published analysis of the speech was included in another entry here earlier this morning. The one-hour conference call, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, discussed the new Obama Administration strategy in [...]
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Cats are weird. Last weekend, Meda insisted that we needed a new comforter cover to replace the torn, stained, and faded one we have been using. The solution was a stop at the Ross Store in Kaneohe, where she could only find a single cover for our “full” size bed. It seems that everyone else [...]
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Raise your hand if you wanted to pound your head into a wall while listening to President Obama’s speech attempting to justify the escalation of our war in Afghanistan. Consider my hand raised. Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies had an excellent analysis of the speech and what the president said, and more [...]
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Larry Geller’s Chinatown rodent retreat video drew conflicting reactions yesterday. One email dismissed attempted to dismiss Geller as “a busybody who wants his 15 minutes”, and suggested “take a look at the dumpsters behind Jack in the Box and KFC and you will see hoards of rats.” Another reader emailed: Those photos of the big [...]
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