Eighth Air Force ( Read more... )

Jesse Jackson weeping with joy, spontaneous mob crowding the fence of the White House yelling "Bush Out, Bush Out"... I've been waiting a long time for this.

FUCK YES, PEOPLE.

This doesn't change everything, but it changes a hell of a lot.

This seems appropriate ( Read more... )

Messrs. Greenspon & Martin ( Read more... )

Lose your house, lose your voteBy Eartha Jane Melzer 9/10/08 6:42 AM ( Read more... )

From this very interesting site.

Author Jourdan Anderson
Annotation Jourdon Anderson, an ex- Tennessee slave, declines his former master's invitation to return as a laborer on his plantation.
Year 1865
Text Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 ( Read more... )

I still think about Katrina all the time, but now this:

New Orleans Orders Evacuation as Gustav Reaches Gulf (Update1)By Jerry Hart and Brian K. Sullivan ( Read more... )

I just explained anxiety to Ang in a way that she said made perfect sense. I said that the feeling I get when the anxiety's bad, but general (not in a worrying-about-the-cat kind of way, or worrying-about-my-family, or the-proliferation-of-plastics-will-definitely-give-me-cancer kind of way) explains itself as a continual and inescapable feeling of ( Read more... )

We're going up to Ang's folks place tonight, then leaving early Tuesday morning for Algonquin park. Will be back Friday-Saturdayish. Nola Fay's going to be looking after our cat and house. You probably don't need to get in touch with us, but if you do, we won't be reachable until the end of the week.

Cross your fingers we don't get rained out!