[ December 6, 2008; ]
This year’s Walk & Knock canned & boxed food drive is taking place December 6th, with opportunities to volunteer that day, and/or on Saturday Oct. 25 and Saturday Nov. 29, when we’ll be folding the paper Walk & Knock grocery bags that will be put into the Columbian for subscribers.
You can find information about the [...]
From the greed and short-sightedness of the banks to the insanity of free trade policies to the shrinking of the middle class and the fundamental financial ignorance of the average U.S. consumer:
That says it all.
h/t hilzoy
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I am in the middle of a months’-long process of replacing the 20-year-old porcelain veneers that I’ve had on my front 6 teeth since I graduated from college in December 1988. The veneers were a graduation gift from my parents, to both cover the yellow horizontal stripes that 2 years of braces left on [...]
Not a democratized Iraq or a United States free from want and fear, but this:
More families with children are becoming homeless as they face mounting economic pressures, including mortgage foreclosures, according to a USA TODAY survey of a dozen of the largest cities in the nation.
Local authorities say the number of families seeking help has [...]
David Sedaris, on undecided voters:
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken [...]
Yes, we hear that the rate of casualties among coalition forces has now exceeded those in Iraq, but we have heard nothing like this from the MSM. We have to get it from Rolling Stone:
By the time we reach the town of Salar, only 50 miles south of Kabul, we have already passed five [...]
As Aziz Huq wrote in his piece published at truthout yesterday, the financial meltdown currently being experienced on Wall Street and in the Federal Treasury may be the start of unwinding another complicated and ill-considered U.S. investment strategy: our military presence in almost every country on earth.
Even before the mid-September unraveling began, international creditor goodwill [...]
Out of the Supreme Court, no less:
The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio’s top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.
The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio’s top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, [...]
Pot, meet kettle (and yes, the kettle is black.)
The first-lady-in-waiting, last week:
Cindy McCain lashed out at Barack Obama Tuesday, telling a Tennessee newspaper the Illinois senator has waged the “dirtiest campaign in American history.”
Really, Cindy? Because I haven’t seen anything coming out of any Democratic Party across these United States that can hold a [...]
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