So Am isn't alone in being spammed. All from The Tyee.

Johnson & Johnson sues American Red Cross over use of emblem
the mind reels...

A senior British commander in southern Afghanistan said in recent weeks that he had asked that American Special Forces leave his area of operations because the high level of civilian casualties they had caused was ( Read more... )

my laugh for today

Sedaris ponders gender roles...or something

and Susie Bright starts a betting poll on that "reformed" minister

Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada

So I'm looking for what would be a good crop in peaty ground, a former bog, on Vancouver Island. And I come across a long excerpt from Hole in the Sky by William Kittredge via Ploughshares ( Read more... )

And it IS pretty short. Quiet, thoughtful. Nothing earth-shattering. Just what you need this weekend!

CARNIVAL, LAS TABLAS by CRISTINA HENRÍQUEZ

I'm pretty much shutting this puppy down. I'm defriending everyone and may restart this in the future or not.

I'll think of you. And I wish you all the best wishes!

A PR guy tells all but the links at the bottom of the page are good too. Money = no climate change!

This has been playing at full volume in my head all day. So here it is, for you. (but the sound quality is better in my head)

Another great article by Katherine Boo in the Feb 6 New Yorker.

Swamp Nurse: What's the best hope for the first child of a poor mother?