Note: I hate to post anything from the Guardian at this point, after last week's erroneous report on so-called "severe food shortages" due to Hugo Chavez's "Socialist policies" in Venezuela, which, of course, was simply not true (food production is the highest it's ever been, in fact, and food consumption is so far up due to a doubling of the poor' ( Read more... )

THE SUPPRESSED SPEECH OF WAMSUTTA (FRANK B.) JAMES, WAMPANOAG ( Read more... )

I make a point of making sure everyone understands that I do not celebrate Native American Genocide Day AKA Thanksgiving Day, but I will also not deprive myself of getting to have dinner with my family, which will be nice. Last year, I spent it with Joyce's family, where I got to hear her Grandmother refer to Hispanic immigrants as "those people ( Read more... )

I'm bad (or good, depending on who's point of view) for giving away my books as gifts to friends or loaning them out and never seeing them again, so I ordered these books yesterday to replace the ones missing in my collection ( Read more... )

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I typically do not like most "political" music. I find it too simplistic and too shallow of a topic to place in one song, or even one hour long album. It's like the talking heads on TV news with their 30 second sound bites, you know ( Read more... )

Fun night. A tad bit too cold for my taste, but it was good grabbing dinner with Rick, one of my favorite friends. I didn't stay out too late because I am planning on taking my mother out for lunch tomorrow. She had a health scare two weeks ago that I didn't mention here, simply because in the course of the day she turned out to be OK. However, ( Read more... )