I have a dream. In my dream, Secretary of State Colin Powell comes out from hiding and somehow skews up the courage to serve his country in the best way possible: He resigns. So starts an article written by Harley Sorensen of SFGate.com His thoughts got my thoughts going. I agree with him that Colin […]

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Well, kiss my ba-Bush-ka…. You seriously could not ask for a greater endorsement than this. If he’d endorsed John Kerry, I could only begin to imagine the commentary from the Republican Party.

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I’ve been wondering lately if I should take the incredibly rising oil prices as a positive sign.

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The pendulum of morality swings back and forth as a reaction to current events. It’s effected by presidents (Clinton), Super Bowls (Janet Jackson) and now finally this: the Rubber Duck of Spring Hill, Tennessee. SPRING HILL, Tenn. — Katherine Williams says the yellow ducky sponge she put on sale at a flea market is merely […]

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Hmmm…George Bush wired? I’m not sure I’m buying it. I mean seriously. Are we really supposed to believe that this Administration — or any group of Republicans for that matter — would do something like put a large rectangular receiver into the President’s suit just so he could be prompted with information during a debate? […]

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You might say I’m on a religious roll today. Oh, the irony: Me, a Holy Roller.

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Today, Americans are busily engaged in a kind of a religious war — although we don’t think of it that way — in Iraq. The war against terrorism — from the perspective of Muslims, anyway — is certainly a religious war. Americans failure to understand this is partly to blame for the ease with which […]

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‘Tis the season. You know it, I know it. I’m not talking about spending time with family, fighting for parking or even spending time fighting with family about where to park. I’m talking about voting season. But in the eternal words of Mark Morford of the SFGate.com : Let’s be honest. Percentage-wise, few people in […]

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Perhaps it needed an issue like this for me to understand Bob Marcotte’s claim that the Left spins as much as the Right, that they’re both playing “the Same Game.” And so it is that Community Alliance’s monthly rag spearheads the anti-zoo campaign with an article — portions of which can be found at Indymedia […]

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Sour Grapes, over at Famous Fresno, has apparently thrown off it’s support for cultural activities in Fresno. As the election nears, it’s become de rigueur to attack the ballot measure to help the Chaffee Zoo: Measure Z. Perhaps fearful that siding with the Zoo is too mainstream, Famous Fresno decided to jump on the little […]

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