Category Archives: RagBlog

Years and years ago, while watching the mainstream culture move ever farther away from what I considered good sense, and wondering if I should go with them, or hew to my own path, however clouded or obscure it might get, … Continue reading →

A New Year’s Eve Menu for Two (31 December 2000) This is actually a rather British dinner, but without the usual Yorkshire pudding. It is well loved in North America which makes me include it in this section. When one … Continue reading →

This comes courtesy of Mariann, the “Wiz.” She says it’s “perfect for the “Blow and Snow season”, eh wot??” Peru president favors using cocaine-producing leaf for saladThe Associated PressPublished: December 19, 2006 LIMA, Peru: President Alan Garcia on Tuesday suggested … Continue reading →

Historical Perspectives on Latin American and East Asian Regional DevelopmentNoam Chomsky; Delivered to a Boston meeting of Mass Global Action, December 15, 2006 There was a meeting on the weekend of December 9-10 in Cochabamba in Bolivia of major South … Continue reading →

Saudi Royals Snub Bush, Fund Opposition to U.S. TroopsBy Jeffrey Klein and Paolo Pontoniere, New America MediaDec 21, 2006, 06:58 Saudi Arabia, fearful of a nuclear Iran and a Shiite Iraq, is taking steps to influence U.S. policy in Iraq. … Continue reading →

Unlawful effort to hand Canada to the Bush regime: Conservative Party linked to pro-U.S. Annexation Cabalby Peter MackenzieGlobal Research, December 20, 2006 “Stand Up for Canada” appears to have been devised as a technique of mass deception, under the joint … Continue reading →

Watada states his case in Moiliili: Standing ovations greet a soldier facing a court-martial for refusing to go to IraqBy Leila Fujimori A highly sympathetic crowd of a few hundred people gave Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada standing ovations before, … Continue reading →

Iraqi Women’s Bodies Are Battlefields for War VendettasBy Kavita N. Ramdas, Global Fund for Women. Posted December 19, 2006. The United States’ so-called “liberation” of Iraqi women has made them less free than they were under the Baathist regime, with … Continue reading →

The Retreat from Empiricism and Ron Suskind’s Intellectual Scoop Even realism has an obligation to be realistic. –George Packer. The only piece of political journalism ever to make me cry was Ron Suskind’s article, Without a Doubt, published in the … Continue reading →

SMU Faculty Want “W” Library Returned [T]he letter-writers object to the W Library because of Bush’s policies, seeing the library as symbolizing SMU’s endorsement of “attitudes and actions widely deemed as ethically egregious: degradation of habeas corpus, outright denial of … Continue reading →

Iraqis Can’t Be Blamed for the Chaos Unleashed by InvasionOnly those who live there can solve Iraq’s problems, but Bush and Blair must bear prime responsibility for igniting themby Jonathan Steele A rare joke was circulating among Iraqis shortly before … Continue reading →

Torture Is Now Part of the American SoulBy George Monbiot, The Guardian. Posted December 18, 2006. After thousands of years of practice, you might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But you should … Continue reading →