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2016  1

November  1

America, America - The 2016 Presidential Election

November 15, 2016 · 2 min · musafir

2015  3

September  1

Corte Madera, CA, - Budget Inn

September 18, 2015 · 2 min · musafir

August  1

America, America - A Country Awash in Guns

August 6, 2015 · 1 min · musafir

January  1

Go Charlie, Go

January 13, 2015 · 1 min · musafir

2014  4

July  2

Young Men With Horns and Guitar

July 18, 2014 · 2 min · musafir

Why Do People Who Fish Have a Tendency to Despoil the Environment ?

July 18, 2014 · 1 min · musafir

April  2

A Hike Up to Monument Peak (Ed R. Levin County Park, Milpitas, CA)

April 29, 2014 · 2 min · musafir

Bend, Oregon - October 2012

April 14, 2014 · 1 min · musafir

2013  6

August  1

Vogelsang High Sierra Camp-Lyell Canyon Trail

August 15, 2013 · 5 min · musafir

June  2

The Morning After Pill - 2007 and Now

June 14, 2013 · 1 min · musafir

Personal History - The World of Shipping, and “Mogi” Mogensen

June 9, 2013 · 4 min · musafir

April  1

Mailbox for Wile E. Coyote, Cañada Road, Woodside, California

April 21, 2013 · 3 min · musafir

January  2

“Amour”, the movie. An Act of Love

January 29, 2013 · 2 min · musafir

Samosas, Singaras - Mecheda, West Bengal, And a Small Town in Pakistan

January 25, 2013 · 5 min · musafir

2012  10

December  1

India - Violence Against Women

December 28, 2012 · 1 min · musafir

September  3

The Political Circus - Republicans’ Almost Prurient Obsession With Sexual Lives of Americans

September 28, 2012 · 2 min · musafir

Four Days in Emigrant Wilderness

September 25, 2012 · 5 min · musafir

The Conventions are Over But Political Circus Continues

September 8, 2012 · 1 min · musafir

August  1

The Invisible, Impenetrable Todd Akin Pregnancy Protection Shield

August 20, 2012 · 2 min · musafir

July  1

A July 4th Walk at Point Lobos SNR, California

July 5, 2012 · 2 min · musafir

June  1

If they are in Palo Alto, CA, then no place is safe

June 3, 2012 · 2 min · musafir

May  1

The Political Circus - Campaign 2012

May 6, 2012 · 2 min · musafir

March  1

The Seasons: Signs of Spring

March 10, 2012 · 2 min · musafir

February  1

The Political Circus - 273 Days Before November 6th

February 6, 2012 · 2 min · musafir

2011  19

December  1

Passages: December 2011

December 18, 2011 · 3 min · musafir

November  1

Thanksgiving Day 2011

November 24, 2011 · 2 min · musafir

August  2

Another Summer Rushing Past

August 28, 2011 · 2 min · musafir

Canyon Creek In The Trinity Alps

August 15, 2011 · 7 min · musafir

July  2

The Debt Ceiling - Obama and Democratic Senators Sold Us Down The River

July 31, 2011 · 2 min · musafir

Lower Paradise Valley, Kings Canyon, California

July 12, 2011 · 4 min · musafir

May  3

EndTimes?

May 19, 2011 · 1 min · musafir

Libraries

May 19, 2011 · 1 min · musafir

Personal History: A Look Back - Death of a Dog

May 18, 2011 · 5 min · musafir

April  2

Spring - at long last, it feels like Spring

April 27, 2011 · 2 min · musafir

Gods and Devotees

April 1, 2011 · 1 min · musafir

March  4

Spring 2011 - Cherry Blossoms

March 27, 2011 · 2 min · musafir

“Blood Money” - A Bribe By Any Other Name

March 16, 2011 · 1 min · musafir

Automation, and Jobs - The Moving Finger

March 13, 2011 · 3 min · musafir

Death and Taxes

March 8, 2011 · 2 min · musafir

February  2

Blossoms, blossoms, everywhere

February 12, 2011 · 2 min · musafir

Egypt, Mubarak, and the United States

February 1, 2011 · 3 min · musafir

January  2

Charlatans of Catholic Church

January 17, 2011 · 2 min · musafir

The Two Faces of Switzerland

January 6, 2011 · 1 min · musafir

2010  33

December  4

Personal History: Remembrances

December 31, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

WikiLeaks Justified? Yes

December 12, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

Fall 2010 - Wild Mushrooms - Skyline Ridge

December 12, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

The Capitulation of Barack Obama

December 10, 2010 · 1 min · musafir

November  3

Thanksgiving 2010

November 25, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

The Devils of Wall Street

November 19, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

My Favorite Holiday

November 17, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

October  1

The Outlook for Democrats

October 22, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

September  1

Personal History: Odds and Ends At the Beginning of Autumn 2010

September 22, 2010 · 4 min · musafir

August  2

The Seasons: Summer 2010

August 28, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

Clouds Rest - A Kick in the Head

August 9, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

July  3

Personal History: Kolkata (Calcutta) Old and New

July 30, 2010 · 4 min · musafir

From Bollywood Sound to Glenn Gould and Johann Sebastian Bach

July 10, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

Personal History - Voices and Memories

July 5, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

June  3

In Pakistan, the Mullahs Rule

June 25, 2010 · 1 min · musafir

Summer 2010

June 21, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

The Other War, In Afghanistan

June 12, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

May  2

Yosemite National Park - May 2010

May 24, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

Spring Wild Flowers - San Francisco Peninsula

May 4, 2010 · 1 min · musafir

April  2

The Hypocrisy about Pornography

April 23, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

Passages: April 2010

April 18, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

March  2

First Day of Spring 2010

March 20, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

Hands Across the Seas, Part IV (Final Chapter)

March 10, 2010 · 4 min · musafir

February  4

Tyranny of the Religious

February 24, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

A Red-shouldered Hawk and Wild Mushrooms

February 16, 2010 · 1 min · musafir

Wunderlich Park, Woodside, CA.

February 12, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

Weeds, Wild Flowers, Outdoor Statuary - Canada Road, Woodside, CA

February 9, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

January  6

Blair, Bush, And the Farce that is Chilcot Inquiry

January 30, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

Three Cheers for Elizabeth Wilmshurst

January 26, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

The Seasons: January Rains

January 20, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Winter Rains and Green Foothills

January 15, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

Reform of Wall Street

January 8, 2010 · 3 min · musafir

The Seasons: Winter 2010

January 2, 2010 · 2 min · musafir

2009  67

December  6

Transformation of Barack Obama

December 27, 2009 · 4 min · musafir

The Seasons: End of Fall 2009

December 21, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Health-care Reform

December 18, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Iraq War - Blair’s Deception Exposed

December 16, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

Barack Obama and Wall Street

December 12, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

Another “War President”

December 2, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

November  9

John Brodniak of Yamhill County, OR. - A Victim of Our Health Care System

November 29, 2009 · 5 min · musafir

Fall 2009 - Wild Mushrooms in the Bay Area

November 27, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Catholic Church and Pedophilia Back in the News

November 26, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Insurance Reimbursement for Prayers

November 23, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Vive Extremadura

November 18, 2009 · 4 min · musafir

On the road to 2010 - Shrinking Coattails of President Obama

November 15, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Hands Across the Seas, Part III

November 10, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

Obama’s Election Victory Redux

November 4, 2009 · 5 min · musafir

Hands Across the Seas, Part II

November 1, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

October  4

The Seasons: Last Days of October 2009

October 29, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Hands Across the Seas, Part I

October 25, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

About Dark Pools, Extraordinary Rendition,Collateral Damage,etc.

October 20, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Men Seeking Virgin Brides

October 2, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

September  3

The Seasons: Early Autumn 2009

September 29, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Mt. Whitney and A Grand Cru Classé Pauillac

September 23, 2009 · 5 min · musafir

In the “Melting Pot” - Thoughts of an Immigrant

September 12, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

August  7

In Afghanistan, A Cruel August for Soldiers

August 31, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

Faces in the Line - St. Anthony’s Dining Room

August 28, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

The End of Summer Feeling

August 18, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

You, Me, and the World in the Evening

August 9, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

Buyers Beware - iKitchen.com and Related Sites

August 8, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Stern Grove - Bhangra, Irish Reels and a Musician in Kilt

August 4, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Back to Yosemite, Jewel of the Sierras

August 1, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

July  4

A Major Step Forward for Right-to-Die Movement in Britain

July 30, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

No, Not a Penis Substitute

July 20, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Sunday afternoon at Stern Grove

July 12, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Butterflies are Free

July 6, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

June  3

Summer 2009

June 25, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Marcel Proust and Vida Vamegli

June 14, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

Sculptures and Paintings among the Trees

June 7, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

May  5

End of AIPAC As We Knew It

May 29, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Northern California - Late Spring 2009

May 27, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Credit Cards - Caveat emptor

May 20, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

A Vengeful Government in Sri Lanka

May 13, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Afghan Civilian Casualties

May 6, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

April  6

Judge Baltasar Garzón Rides Again

April 30, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Ziggy, Swerve, and Heath Ceramics

April 24, 2009 · 4 min · musafir

The Seasons: Spring 2009

April 20, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Cuba and the United States

April 14, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Nevada Politicians

April 10, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Glastonbury 2009

April 6, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

March  8

Pope Benedict and Condoms

March 27, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

Patriot Act

March 26, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Flowers of Spring 2009

March 23, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Presidents Past

March 19, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Spring is Around the Corner

March 13, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

Bush’s “Conscience” Ruling Rescinded

March 8, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Pornography and the Bible Belt

March 4, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Obama and Aid to Faith-based Organizations

March 2, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

February  6

States’ Rights and the Politics of Pot

February 27, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Cherry Blossoms and Spring

February 26, 2009 · 1 min · musafir

President Obama’s First Speech to Jt. Session of Congress

February 25, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

The Fall of Humpty Dumpty

February 19, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Yearnings of Richard B. Cheney

February 9, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

A Novel from 1917 and Two Recent Ones

February 7, 2009 · 3 min · musafir

January  6

No Tears for the Children of Gaza

January 27, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

The Meltdown Hits Close to Home

January 26, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Atrocities By Descendants of Victims of Holocaust

January 25, 2009 · 6 min · musafir

Early Spring

January 15, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

‘Horror’ of Gaza

January 11, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

Shema Yisrael or Shame on Israel

January 4, 2009 · 2 min · musafir

2008  99

December  13

Hope ?

December 30, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Rains….and Chanterelles

December 29, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

The Murky World of War Against Terror

December 28, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

The Bush Doctrine and Viagra

December 26, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Christmas Eve 2008

December 24, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Winter Solstice 2008

December 21, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

The Barbaric Side of Islam

December 21, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

Credit Card Sharks Facing New Rules

December 20, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Obama Courts Evangelicals

December 18, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

The Seasons: Fall 2008

December 13, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Assisted Suicide - Britain’s Sky TV Takes a Bold Step

December 10, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Bloody Hands - The Decider and his Groupie

December 8, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Call Him Flexible

December 3, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

November  4

Thanksgiving 2008

November 27, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

A Walk in Foothill Park and Green Olives from the West Bank

November 21, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Purses Remain Closed in this Season of Giving

November 15, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

President Elect Barack Obama

November 4, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

October  10

Win One for Turner Campbell of Fort Collins, CO.

October 31, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Twittering Outside ‘Twitter’

October 28, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

The October Surprise ?

October 26, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

God of the Republicans

October 25, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Dubaya’s Last Laugh

October 19, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Dignitas - Back in the News

October 18, 2008 · 4 min · musafir

Playing the Race Card for All It Is Worth

October 12, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

McCain-Palin In A Malicious Gyre

October 10, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

Sarah Palin Didn’t Blink, She Winked

October 5, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Autumn of Discontent

October 3, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

September  8

The End of the Mother of all Ponzi Schemes

September 26, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Sarah Palin and the Witch Doctor

September 25, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

America, America

September 24, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

News from Fouke, Arkansas

September 21, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

Dark Clouds on the Horizon

September 20, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Unblinking and Clueless

September 15, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Election 2008 and American Voters

September 8, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Gott Mit Uns and John McCain’s VP Pick

September 3, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

August  5

Hamid Karzai, the Cypher in Green Robe

August 27, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: A Month Before Autumn Equinox

August 24, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

The Tango King Dispute

August 18, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Is August the Cruelest Month ?

August 12, 2008 · 4 min · musafir

Time of the Hucksters

August 4, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

July  9

Women’s Right to Choose Under Attack, Again

July 31, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

San’a to Mocha (Yemen, 1989)

July 26, 2008 · 7 min · musafir

Islamic Republic of Iran - Still In Stone Age

July 21, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Waning Days of the Bush Presidency

July 19, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

So Many Books, So Litle Time

July 17, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Milton Friedman is Gone, Where Are His Disciples ?

July 13, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Barack Obama and A Sellout on FISA

July 10, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

The Flag - Honor and Disrespect Revisited

July 7, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

July 4th Fireworks - Story of Two Ocean Containers

July 6, 2008 · 4 min · musafir

June  6

Obama Disappoints

June 25, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Summer, Fog, and Golden Gate Bridge

June 24, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

The Seasons: Summer is around the Corner

June 11, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

Shed no Tears for Hummer and Other Gas Guzzlers

June 7, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

It is Barack Obama

June 4, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

They Are Baaack, Abstinence Only Sex Education Promoters

June 1, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

May  9

McClellan ’s Tell-All Book

May 30, 2008 · 4 min · musafir

Pentecostals Strike Back - Devil and Charles Grassley

May 25, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Rambling On Memorial Day Weekend 2008

May 24, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Same-Sex Marriage

May 18, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Flag Pin Does Not A Patriot Make

May 17, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Mothers’ Day 2008

May 11, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Election 2008 - Warmongers

May 9, 2008 · 6 min · musafir

Day of Reckoning for Clinton and Obama ?

May 6, 2008 · 4 min · musafir

G.W. Bush and Hillary Clinton

May 2, 2008 · 5 min · musafir

April  9

Barack Obama done in by a Pat Robertson Wannabe

April 30, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

‘Secondary Virgins’ Back in the News

April 28, 2008 · 4 min · musafir

Armies of God

April 26, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

Democrats on the Brink

April 24, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Monday Morning Charivari

April 21, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

“Teeth into the Jugular”, or Jingolytis of the Bosphongus

April 13, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Tenderness in the Desert - “The Band’s Visit”

April 9, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

“Stop-Loss”, A Movie about Soldiers and Bush’s War

April 7, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

The Infamous John C. Yoo Back in the Spotlight

April 2, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

March  9

Bush: “a defining moment” in Iraq" - Into the Valley of Death

March 28, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Hubris and ‘The Enemy Within’

March 27, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

March 24, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Spring, 2008: How Green is the Valley !

March 20, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

The War Goes On

March 16, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Casualties In Iraq

March 10, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Hail, Vermont

March 7, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

Think Trillions - Cost of Bush’s War

March 5, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

The Hague to Mazar-i-Sharif

March 3, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

February  8

Democrats, “Beware the Ides of March”

February 28, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Viewing Presidential Contenders without Rose Colored Glasses

February 21, 2008 · 4 min · musafir

The Seasons: Heralds of Spring

February 19, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

The Race for White House

February 14, 2008 · 5 min · musafir

Scamming in the name of War Veterans

February 10, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

The United Kingdom and Sharia Law

February 7, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Smirk’s Last Gift

February 4, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Winter and Punxsutawney Phil

February 2, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

January  9

The War and Its Toll

January 31, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Heaven, Nirvana and a Run up Parrott Drive

January 27, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

Art Tatum on a Rainy Friday Night

January 25, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

Walk in the Woods with a Young Forager

January 19, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

A New Beginning

January 17, 2008 · 4 min · musafir

Call for Impeachment by a Former B-24 Pilot

January 10, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

American Politics - The Taboo against Tears

January 8, 2008 · 1 min · musafir

A Sunday Morning in January

January 6, 2008 · 3 min · musafir

A New Year Begins

January 1, 2008 · 2 min · musafir

2007  167

December  12

The Seasons: December 2007

December 29, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto and Expediency of Politicians

December 28, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Pakistan - End of Benazir Bhutto

December 27, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Christmas 2007

December 25, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Films, Old and New

December 23, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008: God and the GOP

December 19, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

The Seasons: Autumn Rains

December 18, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

South to North

December 16, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

South of the Border - Right to Die Gains Approval in Mexico City

December 11, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Teenage Pregnancies and the “Abstinence” Guy

December 7, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Iran - President Bush’s Broken Dreams

December 5, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

“Redacted”, a Film about Rape and Murder of Abeer Hamza

December 4, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

November  16

Sudanese Rabble

November 30, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Empire Building, Neocon Style

November 29, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Hate, Love: Four-letter Words

November 27, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

A Fresh Wind Down Under

November 24, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Thanksgiving 2007

November 21, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Tolls of War: PTSD and Blake Miller, the Marlboro Man

November 18, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Religious Fundamentalists - Islamic and Christian

November 17, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

John McCain’s Shameful Descent

November 16, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

A Man, his Doll, and a Town with a Big Heart

November 15, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

The Devil and Alaska’s Republican Legislators

November 12, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Televangelists Facing Scrutiny

November 10, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Kucinich battles to Impeach

November 7, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Three Score Years and Ten, Plus a Few More

November 5, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Pakistan’s Uneasy Autumn

November 4, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Season of Falling Leaves

November 3, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

The United States and Torture

November 2, 2007 · 8 min · musafir

October  10

On the Road to 2008: Looking for a War

October 30, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Guns, Drugs, and the U.S.A

October 29, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Sadiyah, Iraq, and 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment

October 27, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

“A Lot of Low-Hanging Fruit”

October 25, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: October 2007

October 24, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008: Evangelicals Looking For a Candidate

October 16, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Man Who Was Elected President in 2000

October 13, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008: The Religious Right or ‘Value Voters’

October 9, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Taking Back the Republic “One ditch at a time”

October 7, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Deaths at Nisoor Square, Baghdad

October 4, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

September  7

Condoms and Catholics, Condoms and Bush Administration

September 30, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

The Seasons: End of Another Summer

September 23, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Bloggers for Bush - Treacly Stuff

September 19, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Alan Greenspan Joins Rank of Iraq War Critics

September 16, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Iraq - “Accentuate the Positive”

September 9, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: September 2007

September 8, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Pakistan - Twilight for the General

September 3, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

August  9

Senator Larry Craig - Another Two-faced Republican Exposed

August 28, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

AG Gonzalez and President Bush Faced Reality

August 27, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

“Morning After Pill” Back in the News

August 23, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008: The Dark Side

August 22, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008

August 21, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Karl Rove - The Architect or Turd Blossom ?

August 14, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Passages: August 2007

August 13, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Hillary Clinton and Lobbyists

August 5, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Good News for Bushies - Murdoch Acquires WSJ

August 1, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

July  13

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) - A Giant Passes Away

July 31, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Tour Guide Returns to Rant Against the War

July 23, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Defeat for General Musharraf

July 20, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Alarms and Diversions: They are coming, they are coming

July 18, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Passages: July 2007

July 17, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Dehumanizing War

July 14, 2007 · 6 min · musafir

The Pinstriped, Gucci Clad Thugs of Bush White House

July 12, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Old Khayyám and I

July 10, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Morning News: Impeachment and DHS

July 9, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Blues Piano

July 7, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Dying for the Commander in Chief

July 6, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Scooter Libby, Bill Clinton, and Republicans

July 2, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Uneasy summer for G.W. Bush

July 2, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

June  12

Death knell for Gilroy Garlic

June 30, 2007 · 8 min · musafir

In Islamabad, Chinese Masseuses and Burqa-clad Vigilantes

June 25, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Rabble-Rousers - A Fatwa Revived

June 23, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Death Came to Zarghun Shah, East of Kabul

June 19, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Wild Flowers, San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay - Spring 2007

June 18, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Returning Veterans Caught in Bureaucratic Jungle

June 17, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Catholic Fundos Go After Amnesty International

June 13, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Hero of Albania - President G.W. Bush

June 10, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Price for Arrogance

June 6, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Congress, Democrats, Bush, Iraq

June 5, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Spam Kings and Those Who Keep Them in Business

June 4, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Iraq - The Human toll of the Neocons’ War

June 1, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

May  14

Arlington Cemetery : Memorial Day 2007

May 28, 2007 · 10 min · musafir

Lament for Dead Soldiers - One Father’s cry from the heart

May 27, 2007 · 6 min · musafir

“Ah, Wilderness” - The Seasons

May 27, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Evangelical Moles in Post-Bush America

May 25, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Democrats Rolled Over

May 23, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

The Jimmy Carter Flipflop - He Was Right on Saturday

May 22, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Novels: Old and New - V.S. Naipaul * Kiran Desai

May 20, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Defeat for Paul Dundes Wolfowitz

May 17, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Falwell and the Moral Majority - The Wannabe Torquemadas

May 16, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Walks in the Woods - Spring 2007

May 13, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

A Red Hibiscus Bloomed - Jharkhand on my Mind

May 10, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Ségolène Royal Fizzled Out

May 7, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

A Modern Day Sun King in The White House, Nah

May 4, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Fourth Anniversary of “Mission Accomplished”

May 1, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

April  14

Deborah Jeane Palfrey and her Ticking Time Bomb

April 29, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

A Young Iraqi Woman Writes about Leaving Home

April 28, 2007 · 6 min · musafir

The Warrior in the White House and U.S. Casualties

April 25, 2007 · 5 min · musafir

Jazz on a Cold, Gray Sunday Morning

April 22, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Tulips at Fremont High School, Spring 2007

April 21, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Hail, Vermont Senators

April 20, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Dismal Spring for G.W. Bush

April 20, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Massacre at VTU - A Black Day in America

April 16, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

George Tenet’s “At the Center of the Storm”

April 16, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Failure of “Abstinence Only” Policy

April 14, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Billy Pilgrim - “Poo-tee-weet”

April 12, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Kurt Weil, Ute Lemper, …….and Deaths In Iraq

April 11, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Easter Sunday 2007 - Poems of Brian Turner

April 8, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

The Tax Man Cometh - Where Our Money Goes

April 4, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

March  15

Who Will Blink First ?

March 30, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Veto Warning

March 27, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Not Just Another Book About Iraq - “The Long Road Home” By Martha Raddatz

March 25, 2007 · 5 min · musafir

Incests do not take place in Mississippi

March 23, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Spring, Another Spring

March 20, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Four Years - 3218 Dead

March 18, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008 - The World of P.G. Wodehouse

March 17, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Yellow Freesias in a Blue & White Vase from Lahore, Pakistan

March 12, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Spring is Around the Corner

March 11, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Destruction of A Street Full of Bookstores, Baghdad, Iraq

March 10, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008: Newtie Decided to Test The Waters

March 9, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

A Pardon for “Scooter” Libby, A Pardon for the President

March 8, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Libby Case Ends in Guilty Verdict

March 6, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Signs of Spring

March 3, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Army Private Matthew T. Zeimer,18, and 78 More - February 2007

March 1, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

February  20

White Supremacy

February 28, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Endangered Species - U.S. Attorneys

February 26, 2007 · 5 min · musafir

‘Secondary Virginity’ and Slightly Pregnant

February 25, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Looking For A Song, A New Anti-War Song

February 24, 2007 · 6 min · musafir

Repealing War Authorization

February 23, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Mahmudiya, South of Baghdad

February 22, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Small Towns Across America Bear the Brunt of War

February 20, 2007 · 11 min · musafir

Casualties of War

February 19, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Seven GOP Senators Who Voted Against Troop Surge

February 18, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

GOP Defections - Deserting A Sinking Ship

February 16, 2007 · 7 min · musafir

America - From “Most Beloved to Most Hated” Country

February 14, 2007 · 8 min · musafir

“This Debate Will be Different” - You Can Say that Again

February 12, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

By Hook Or By Crook, They Wanted War

February 11, 2007 · 7 min · musafir

Coal Mine Creek, Winter 2007

February 10, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Iraq - The Human Costs of Their Lies

February 9, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Iraq: The Sinkhole for Our Money

February 7, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008 - The Media

February 5, 2007 · 7 min · musafir

U.S. Casualties in Iraq: January’s Toll

February 3, 2007 · 5 min · musafir

Winning Hearts and Minds in the Middle East

February 2, 2007 · 6 min · musafir

Molly Ivins 1944-2007

February 1, 2007 · 5 min · musafir

January  25

Turning Aspens and the Byzantine World of the Neocons

January 31, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Death of Staff Sgt. Hector Leija

January 30, 2007 · 11 min · musafir

San Francisco - A Look Back

January 28, 2007 · 5 min · musafir

Global Warming - What Evangelical Christians Fear

January 28, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Commander-in-Chief

January 27, 2007 · 5 min · musafir

Libby Trial Exposes Bungled Coverup of Another Lie

January 26, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

A Matter of Trust

January 25, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

President’s Smokescreen Blown Away by Jim Webb

January 24, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

America: “Mission Accomplished” to Troop Surge

January 23, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

A Poem that the Warrior President will not Understand

January 22, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Bay Area Trails: The Benches at Long Ridge

January 21, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Winds of Change - Lobbying Reform

January 19, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Condoleezza Rice’s Mission to Middle-East

January 17, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

Kirkuk, the Next Killing Zone in Iraq ?

January 16, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Darkness at Noon - Attack on Civil Liberties

January 14, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

Last Stand at the Potomac

January 10, 2007 · 4 min · musafir

From “Bring Them On” to Troop Surge: 2810 Dead

January 10, 2007 · 3 min · musafir

President Bush, Disconnected Or Worse

January 8, 2007 · 7 min · musafir

Bending the Law - G.W. Bush and His Signing Statements

January 6, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The 100-Hour Agenda - You Go Girl

January 5, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Rainy Morning in January

January 4, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

Reverend Pat Robertson Off His Meds Or Off His Rocker

January 4, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

The Decider, Not

January 3, 2007 · 5 min · musafir

The NRA Targets Unfriendly Legislators

January 2, 2007 · 2 min · musafir

Iraq - The Gorilla on the President’s Back

January 1, 2007 · 1 min · musafir

2006  367

December  26

Last Day of 2006 - There is Always Hope

December 31, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

End of Saddam Hussein, Not the Mess In Iraq

December 30, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Lieberman, the “Independent” Senator

December 29, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Gerald Ford’s Voice from the Grave

December 28, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Defending Freedoms

December 27, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Iraq and the Neocons

December 26, 2006 · 6 min · musafir

Christmas Eve Morning in California, 2006

December 24, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

The Seasons: Winter 2006

December 22, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Murders at Haditha, Iraq

December 22, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

A Bouquet for Dr. Mario Riccio

December 21, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Democrats, Stand Up and Resist the President

December 20, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

They Continue to Die in Bush’s War

December 19, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

The Good Soldier Spoke Out

December 18, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Piergiorgio Welby - Italian Court Rejects His Plea

December 17, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Reid and Hastert - Birds of a Feather

December 16, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Looming Spectre of Cheney the Tie Breaker

December 15, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Holocaust - Denying It Will Not Erase the Facts

December 13, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Chile’s Terrible Past and Iraq’s Violent Present

December 12, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Our Heroes, Ourselves - Reality and PR

December 11, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Where are you Abe Lincoln ? Lobbyists Rule

December 10, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Passages: December

December 9, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Warrior from Crawford and the Dead in Iraq

December 7, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

What Would Bush Do?

December 6, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Think Peace

December 5, 2006 · 6 min · musafir

The Fascinating World of Fungis

December 4, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

They Keep on Killing In the Name of God

December 3, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

November  32

A Matter of Civility

November 30, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

A Mixed Bag - News from Here and There

November 29, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Soldiers’ Pay

November 28, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

For The “Eye Contact” President the Next Stop Is Jordan

November 27, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

AK-47, A Cheap and Efficient Killing Machine

November 26, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Quagmire that Is Iraq

November 25, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Panic on K-Street

November 24, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Not “Bring ’em on”, Mr. President, Bring them home

November 22, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Democrats and Ethics

November 21, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Moving Finger - Bush and The Neocons

November 20, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Fall and Fungi

November 19, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

History Lesson

November 19, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Evil That Man Does

November 18, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

There They Go Again

November 17, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

End of the ‘Run Amok’ Presidency

November 16, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Talking Jesus Dolls - WWJD ?

November 15, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

GOP’s Third World Strategy In Maryland

November 14, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The 109th Congress - Final Session

November 13, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Sunday After the Election (2006)

November 12, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

You too, God !

November 11, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Massacre at Beit Hanoun

November 10, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

President and Barney - Good News Comes in Spades

November 9, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

From Across the Atlantic : “Thank You, America”

November 9, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Hubris Vanquished - “I Could’ve Danced All Night”

November 8, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

“Stand Up and Deliver”

November 6, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

God’s Own Party ?

November 6, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

A Poem to brighten Sunday, or any day

November 5, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Another “Holier than thou” bites the dust

November 5, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

A Matter of Trust….and Fear

November 4, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Waiting for the Fat Lady

November 3, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Foot In the Mouth - Affliction of Politicians

November 1, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Blogosphere - Is there life without Technorati?

November 1, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

October  33

October’s Terrible Toll In Iraq - Names by Date

October 31, 2006 · 7 min · musafir

“Shut Up and Sing” - The Dixie Chicks Do Their Thing

October 30, 2006 · 7 min · musafir

A Walk in the Woods on an Autumn Afternoon

October 29, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Oh, to be in Boratstan (Kazakhstan)

October 29, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

When We Wake Up On November 8, 2006

October 28, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Return of the Mudslingers - Campaign 2006

October 28, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Mad Dogs and Mullahs

October 27, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Beat the Drum Slowly

October 26, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Iraq - President’s Secret Plan

October 25, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

14 Days Before Midterm Elections

October 24, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Is the Veil (Hijab) Mandated In the Koran

October 24, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

One Soldier Plans a Road Trip Around America

October 23, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Sunday, A Gary Snyder Kind of Sunday

October 22, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Democrats Closing “The God Gap”

October 21, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Misogynistic Muslims

October 20, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Dirge of October - Names By Date

October 19, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Bloody October In Iraq

October 18, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Nightmares at Pennsylvania Avenue

October 16, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Sunday Morning - Time, Distance and Lament for a Friend

October 15, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

“…..Bush’s rising frustration….” And “Republican,Ut”

October 14, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Britannia Wavering - Is this the End of the “Coalition” ?

October 12, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Voice of the People

October 12, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

October 2006

October 11, 2006 · 7 min · musafir

Another Face of Religion

October 10, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Absurd: The Veil Controversy

October 8, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Way We Are

October 8, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

835 Days: Countdown G.W. Bush Presidency

October 7, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Veil, Burqa, Purdah and Muslim Women * Evangelical Christians In America

October 6, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Chickenhawks and Dead Soldiers

October 5, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Morning News: Harry Potter and President Bush

October 4, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

All the President’s Supporters - Barney, the dog, and the First Lady

October 3, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Changing Fortunes and Democratic Leadership

October 2, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Speaker of the House and Mark Foley

October 1, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

September  28

The Good Soldier Got Snookered

September 30, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Chickenhawks and Henry Kissinger

September 30, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

‘Conflicted’ No, He Is A Fake

September 29, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

John Danforth’s Sane Voice

September 28, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Countdown for Tony Blair

September 27, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

‘Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead’

September 26, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

The NIE Bombshell

September 24, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Fall 2006

September 23, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Abuse of Power, The Bilal Hussein Story

September 23, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

‘Moral Desert’ - What the President and His Team Have Wrought

September 21, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Den of Thieves

September 20, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Sanctions Against Iran and Justifying Torture of Prisoners

September 19, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Bookstores on Mutanabi Street, Baghdad

September 18, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Pope Benedict’s Mea Culpa - Not Enough for the Muslims

September 17, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Doing What They Do Best - Barrage of Lies

September 17, 2006 · 9 min · musafir

Prelude to Another War ?

September 15, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Pakistan - Proposed Reform of Rape Law Bites the Dust

September 14, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

‘A Third Awakening’ !

September 13, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Voodoo Men, Soldiers, and Love Among the Ruins

September 12, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Then and Now - 5 Years After 9/11

September 11, 2006 · 9 min · musafir

Do the Right Thing - Senator Chafee Did

September 8, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Milking of 9/11 - The Fear Factor

September 7, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Women and Islam

September 6, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Groves of Academe

September 5, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Good News Gets Better - GOP In Disarray

September 4, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Sunday Morning Charivari

September 3, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Cluster Bombs - The United States’ Shameful Role

September 2, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

“The Ache of Summer”

September 1, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

August  23

The President and His Attack Dogs

August 31, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

A Year After Katrina: The Poor Gets Poorer

August 30, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Between The President’s Mouth and His Acts

August 29, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Battleground South Dakota - HB1215

August 28, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Bush Presidency - Days left: 876

August 27, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Hawks (Chickenhawks) and Deserters

August 26, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Summer of Discontent in Israel

August 25, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Failed Policy - No Wonder They Hate Us

August 24, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Gaza, and Our Warrior President

August 23, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Presidential Coattail

August 15, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

From the Same People Who Gave Us the War in Iraq

August 14, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Israel, Lebanon and the Peace Agreement

August 13, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Fall of Humpty Dumpty

August 12, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Lebanon War - Human Rights Abuse

August 11, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The President In His Element

August 11, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

A Sane Voice in the Babel

August 9, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Guns of August 2006

August 8, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Bush and Israel Extracting More than their Pound of Flesh

August 7, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

For The Warmongers, A Poem by Yehuda Amichai

August 6, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Our World On A Saturday Morning

August 5, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Children In The War Zone * War Crimes * Conservatives’ Last Gasp?

August 4, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Lebanon: Winners and Losers

August 3, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Democrats Take A Cohesive Position On Iraq War

August 1, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

July  33

Atrocities in Lebanon and Cloud of Lies

July 31, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Condoning Butchery - The Bush/Blair Axis

July 30, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Eloquent and Deferential Prime Minister

July 29, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Floyd Landis - How Would It Play Out ?

July 28, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Lebanon, July 2006 - Guernica, April 1937

July 27, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Lebanon: The Elusive “Enduring Peace”

July 26, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Imperial Presidency - (I Think) “I Am The State”

July 25, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Looking Back, Looking Forward - Mossadeq to Ahmedinejad

July 24, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Lebanon: Britain Takes a Stand, Away From G.W. Bush

July 23, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

No Chocolates and Flowers For U.S. Troops In Iraq

July 23, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Bombs for Lebanon With Love From Uncle Sam

July 22, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

You, Me, and President Bush: Summer Reading

July 22, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

How to Make An Omlette: The G.W. Bush Way

July 21, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Destruction of Lebanon

July 20, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Endless Loop - E-Mail between An Israeli and A Lebanese

July 19, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The First Veto by Our President - Crusader Against Evil

July 18, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Sound Bites, Photo Ops, and Reality

July 17, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

The Cowboy From Crawford and His Missions Not Accomplished

July 16, 2006 · 8 min · musafir

People of Lebanon and the Cedars of Lebanon

July 15, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Insanity Fair - Lebanon, Israel ,Gaza, and A Wound Up Robot

July 14, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Lieberman Behind the Facade - Brother Jeb and the Liberators

July 12, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Obese and the Rest of Us

July 11, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

A Taliban By Any Other Name

July 10, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Zidane’s Flameout - Fall of A Giant

July 9, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Civilian Victims In Iraq

July 9, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Stem Cell Research and Fertility Clinics

July 8, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

They call it “Operation Summer Rains”

July 7, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Thursday Morning Charivari

July 6, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

North Korea Thumbs Its Nose * Mexico Election Dispute

July 5, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Neocons’ War and A Girl Named Abeer Hamza

July 4, 2006 · 6 min · musafir

Generous USDA (Yes, There is Santa Claus)

July 3, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Seasons: Summer

July 2, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Faith and Politics

July 1, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

June  35

Abuse of Power - Checks and Balances, and The SCOTUS

June 30, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Be Afraid - Vulnerability of Electronic Voting Machines

June 29, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The F Word Goes Mainstream

June 28, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Have Viagra - Will Travel

June 28, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Defeat of Flag Burning Amendment

June 27, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Flag Burning Amendment: Politicians in Search of Bogies

June 27, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

“…..the times they are a changing”

June 26, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Prudes, Pricks, Bigots

June 25, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Young Voters, Jon Stewart and “The Daily Show”

June 24, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Summer of ‘06 - Republicans’ Grand Strategy

June 23, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Left, Right or Center?

June 22, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Dr. Strangelove alive and well in Washington DC

June 21, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

India - A Journey to the Past

June 21, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Running with the Mob - The Indictment that never happened

June 19, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Labour Party Wants Blair to Go * Gifts recived by Our President

June 18, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Bad Hair Day * The President’s Turd Blossom

June 17, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

John Danforth - In the Babble, A Sane Voice

June 16, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

U.S. Occupation of Iraq - Global Attitudes

June 15, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008: The Shadow of Iraq

June 14, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Mad Dogs, Zinsmeister, and God

June 13, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Fear is the Key

June 12, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Terrorists, Jihadis, Liberators

June 11, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Sex and British Women - Pornography Goes Mainstream

June 10, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

End of an Era, the Tom DeLay Era

June 9, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

On the road to 2008: God bless you for selling me the big, black Hummer

June 8, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Death of a Terrorist

June 8, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Wednesday: News from Here and There

June 7, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Weird People - The Armageddon Followers

June 6, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Iraq War - Parents of Casualties Speak

June 5, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

“The Shadow of the Wind” * The Ramblas * And A Man for All Seasons

June 4, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Mid-term Elections, Divisive Issues…..and Sex

June 4, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Haditha * Hamandiya * Ishaqi (?) * And a Bumper Sticker

June 3, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The new Al Gore - The man who was “elected” by the people in 2000

June 3, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Dixie Chicks - You go Girls

June 2, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Now it is “Core Values” training for Soldiers

June 1, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

May  31

Haditha, Iraq - The Truth, It is Ugly

May 31, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Tony Blair follows his Master’s Voice

May 30, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Memorial Day 2006 - The Third Year of War Against Iraq

May 29, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Bush Resurrects Ghost of Cold War * A Walk in Baghdad by the Bay

May 28, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Haditha - A Few Marines and Slaughter of Civilians

May 27, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Gallery of Rogues

May 26, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008 - The Hillary and Bill Show

May 25, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Neocons - Failure has not made them humble

May 24, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Evangelical Christian Democrats !

May 23, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Eurovision 2006 - The Finns Rocked the World

May 22, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Distant Thunder - Fury on the Right

May 21, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Saturday Morning Fish Fry

May 20, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Fractured Friday - Slaughterhouse Iraq

May 19, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008 - Brother Jeb and ‘Value Voters’

May 18, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Pure, Chaste Youth of Saudi Arabia

May 17, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

President Bush Straddled the Fence on Immigration

May 16, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

GOP - The Senate and the House

May 15, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Mother’s Day 2006 and the Veterans of Iraq War

May 14, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Bush’s ‘Turd Blossom’ - Is Indictment Imminent ?

May 13, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Water Falls at Big Basin State Park, California

May 12, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

On the Road to 2008 - Hillary Clinton

May 11, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Pelosi on a High Horse

May 10, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Tuesday’s Chatters

May 9, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

War On Christianity ?

May 7, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Hookergate ! Anything is possible

May 6, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

CIA - The Truth Is Out There

May 6, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Poor Women, Rich Women, and Unwanted Pregnancies

May 5, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Was it a slip or a plant ?

May 4, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Bush Presidency - Cracks in the Armor

May 3, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Packaging of the Plagiarist

May 2, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Monday Morning Soliloquies

May 1, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

April  34

Distant Drums - The Dead of April

April 30, 2006 · 6 min · musafir

Exits Kaavya Viswanathan - Good Riddance

April 28, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Karl the Machinator - Is the Noose Tightening?

April 28, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Bloodlust of Radical Islamists

April 26, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

For the 109th Congress, It Is Business As Usual

April 25, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

There They Go Again: Prostitutes and Islam

April 25, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Boss and the “Protest Singer”

April 24, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

CIA and the Mary McCarthy Affair

April 23, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Bush and Earth Day! There is a Disconnect

April 23, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Saturday’s Snippets

April 22, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

The Shifting Political Tide

April 21, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Edgewood Park, San Mateo County - A Gem Just off Hwy 280

April 21, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

India, New Friend of Bush - Realpolitik or Simple Brown-nosing

April 20, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Women Amputees: Toll of War, “Sorrowing Lies My Land”

April 19, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Our Friends, Our Enemies

April 18, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

California’s High Desert - Arid and Awesome

April 17, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

GOP and Horsemen of the Apocalypse

April 17, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Revolt of the Generals and the Names of the Dead in April

April 16, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Angry Left * Retired Generals * Senator Chafee

April 15, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Holy Week 1815 - Then and Now

April 14, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Commentaries: Iraq, Iran, Immigration

April 14, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Democrats in Disarray and Bloggers

April 13, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Schizophrenia Drug Studies and Pharmaceutical Companies

April 12, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Weapons of Mass Deception and a Fitting Reward for the Commander in Chief

April 12, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

News From Here and There

April 11, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Good Soldiers

April 10, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The War President Getting Ready for Battle

April 9, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Fitzgerald the Dragon Slayer - Go Pat, Go

April 9, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Magic of Languages

April 8, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Arrogance and Contempt - A President Above the Law

April 7, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

God and the Republicans - Ah,Togetherness

April 6, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Bush Tax Cuts - Generosity of the 500 Lb. Gorilla

April 5, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Haryana, India - From Bride Burning to Bride Buying

April 5, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Fall of Tom DeLay

April 4, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

March  34

Prayers and Patients

March 31, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Jill Carroll * The Lobbying Bill * Diebold,Inc.

March 29, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Arms Merchants - Nations that Profit from War and Deaths

March 29, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Iraq - Bush, Blair and the Mess they have Wrought

March 27, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

A Bribe by any Other Name Still Stinks

March 27, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Looking Out of the Window

March 26, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Impeachment - Rumbles in New England

March 25, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Fools and the President

March 24, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Holocaust Revisited

March 23, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Condoms, No. Abstinence, Prayers and Cold Showers

March 22, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Put the Aviator’s Suit on, Mr. President

March 21, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

How to turn peaceful Iraqis into bomb throwing Insurgents

March 21, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

First Day of Spring 2006

March 20, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Have Bible, Will Vote

March 20, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Three Years After the Bombs Fell

March 19, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Looking For A War - Preemption Redux

March 18, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Bach and Bergman, Not Bush and Bombs

March 17, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Bush, the Warrior Who Has Lost His Audience

March 16, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Operation Swarmer: Air Strikes Near Samarra, Iraq

March 16, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Russ Feingold’s Call for Censure of President Bush

March 15, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Bush Juggernaut Caught In Quagmire

March 14, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Iraqi ‘Dead Poets’ Society’ - Shattered Dreams

March 12, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

Death of Tom Fox, A Man of Peace

March 11, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Gale Norton Departs Under Taint of Abramoff Scandal

March 10, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

“The Emperor Has No Clothes”

March 10, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

All We Need Is Additional $91 Billion

March 9, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Conservatives Bash Bush At Cato

March 8, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Looking For A Theme - “Bring on the noise, bring on da funk”

March 7, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Seasons: Spring Rains

March 6, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Bobbsey Twins for God - Tony Blair and G.W. Bush

March 5, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Seasons, Oscar Awards And all that Jazz

March 4, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Ghost of Katrina Resurfaces

March 3, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Real Iraq and The President’s Iraq

March 2, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Dirge of February - The Killing Fields in Iraq

March 1, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

February  26

Eyeless in Samarra

February 28, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Plan B Battle Line Shifts to States

February 27, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Tolls of War - In Midwest and In Iraq

February 26, 2006 · 4 min · musafir

South Dakotan Legislators and HB1266

February 25, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Unwanted pregnancies Happen…Even in S. Dakota

February 24, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Political Landscape

February 22, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

“The Left Hand of God”

February 21, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Mother of All Assumptions - $1.35 Trillion in the Bush Budget

February 19, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Wars Past and Present and Books that Portray the Dark Side

February 19, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

God and Politics - Mid-Term Elections, GOP, and Soldiers of Christ

February 18, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Violent Protests Over Cartoons Continue

February 16, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

The Shot Heard Around the World - Stonewalling Fails

February 15, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

“The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight”

February 13, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Faith, Officers, and Cadets - Evangelicals at the Rudder

February 12, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

A Cartoon, Not about Prophet Mohammed but our eloquent President

February 11, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The New Face of “Reform” Is Old Face With Makeover

February 10, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Season of Rabble-Rousers

February 9, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

“Weapons of misdirection”

February 8, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

The Nuclear Club and Iran

February 7, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Cartoons Are Cartoons

February 6, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Needed, Movies About War In Iraq

February 5, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons - Signs of Spring

February 4, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Cartoonists Under Fire - Off with their heads

February 3, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Islamic World Up In Arms Over Cartoons

February 2, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

House Republicans - Second Thoughts About Reform

February 2, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Panic in Google Land

February 1, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

January  32

Iraq, The Dead of January 2006 - President and Punxsutawney Phil

January 31, 2006 · 5 min · musafir

Corrupt Republicans ! What Happened to the Champions of Moral Values ?

January 30, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

J.P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man

January 30, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Saints, Bigots, and Outright Fakes

January 29, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Marathoners and Mullahs in Lahore, Pakistan

January 28, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Rapture - Evangelicals Heaven Bound

January 27, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Rain Clouds over the Malahat

January 26, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Google Rolled Over (or Got Rolled) In China

January 25, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Anne Turner Case - Death With Dignity

January 25, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Bush, Abramoff, and Photo Opportunities

January 24, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Poems on a Sunday Morning

January 22, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Atrocities in East Timor

January 21, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Witch Hunting at UCLA

January 20, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Oppose Samuel Alito – Yes, the Democrats must

January 20, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

Today Pornography, Tomorrow War Critics, then “Liberals”

January 19, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Speaker Hastert’s Game Plan for Lobbying Reform - Wide Loopholes

January 18, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act Prevails - Viva Oregonians

January 17, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Reed Swaying in the Wind and Victory for Michelle Bachelet

January 16, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

Mushrraf in the Middle

January 15, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

India’s Girl Deficit - Gender Based Foeticide

January 14, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Den of Thieves

January 14, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

A Bumper Year for Wild Mushrooms

January 13, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Need a laugh - read “Alito’s agenda”

January 11, 2006 · 1 min · musafir

“Government For the People”—the ‘K’ Street People

January 11, 2006 · 3 min · musafir

A dark side of India - Female Infanticide

January 10, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Iran and Nuclear Weapons - Did CIA provide them blueprints for a bomb ?

January 8, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

“The bigger they are, the harder they fall”

January 8, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Televangelist and the Engineer - Candidates for Padded Cells

January 7, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

How are things in President Bush’s Iraq

January 6, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

The Abramoff Affair - Panic among the Hogs

January 5, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Collateral Damage - Death Rains from the Sky

January 3, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

Sex and ’ Conservative’ American Males

January 2, 2006 · 2 min · musafir

2005  343

December  28

Friends, bloggers, other visitors

December 31, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Winter

December 28, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Faith and Bigotry

December 27, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Bush White House Lied……Again

December 24, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Peace, think Peace

December 23, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Spending Cuts Bill and what it means - The bottom line

December 21, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Kangaroo Courts in the Land of Bush - “Darkness at Noon”

December 21, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The “Freedom Fries” Gang and Their Budget Bill

December 20, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Who will watch the watchers ?”

December 19, 2005 · 5 min · musafir

Same Sex Weddings - Across the Atlantic, Walls Come Tumbling Down

December 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Right to Die - Switzerland Takes the Lead

December 18, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

“We the people” and George Bush’s America

December 17, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Members of the Choir - All Together Now

December 16, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

A Giant Among Pygmies - William J. Fulbright (1905-1995)

December 16, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Democrats - Lost in Translation

December 13, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

A Soldier and His Son - Murder or Mercy Killing ?

December 13, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Trouble in Paradise - Taprobane in Turmoil

December 12, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Chile - Winds of Change

December 11, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Did you kiss the dead body” - Harold Pinter’s Speech at Nobel Awards Ceremony

December 10, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

“Brokeback Mountain”, A Film About Gay Cowboys

December 9, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Back to Los Trancos Trail

December 8, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Democrats: Pussyfooting Around The Iraq War

December 7, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Good Soldier Rice and the Tortuous Definition of Torture

December 6, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Republican Mavericks Lindsay Graham, John Sununu

December 5, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” ? * Autumn Haikus

December 4, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Planted reports” Par for the Course

December 3, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

A Bloody November - We Lost 84 Soldiers

December 2, 2005 · 5 min · musafir

“A Real Strategy ?” Or More of the Same

December 1, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

November  43

Hogs at the Trough (II) - Addicts and Pushers

November 30, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Lies about Iraq’s WMD and The Democrats Who Swallowed Them

November 29, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Iraq After Saddam - What is the Difference ?

November 28, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Making of Suicide Bombers

November 28, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Sexual Hypocrisy Alive and Well in India

November 27, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Violence Against Women, A Worldwide Problem

November 26, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The First Rains of the Season

November 25, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Thanksgiving Day 2005 - Year 3 of the War In Iraq

November 24, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Further Misadventures of The Bush & Blair Team

November 23, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Mean Jean” Schmidt, VP Cheney - Attack Dogs Doing Their Thing

November 22, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

“Shake and Bake” in Iraq - Who Will Cry For Us ?

November 21, 2005 · 5 min · musafir

Poets’ Corner on A Sunday Morning

November 20, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Et tu, Bob Woodward

November 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Kicking Fallen Leaves During Walks in the Fall

November 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Stark beauty and simplicity of Black and White Photographs

November 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Rep. John Murtha, A Decorated War Veteran Raises His Voice Against the War

November 18, 2005 · 5 min · musafir

The Plan “B” Story, Politicization of The FDA

November 18, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The VP Defends the War - And Thus Spake His Boss

November 17, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Alito Shuffle - He Is Acting Like A Politician

November 16, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Simply A Matter of Distrust

November 15, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

FDA Officials and their Faith-based Dirty Tricks

November 14, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Wars, Combatants and Non-Combatants

November 14, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Free Spirits On A Motorcycle in Vietnam

November 14, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Sunday - “Softly As In A Morning Sunrise”

November 13, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

There is hope for Moderates

November 13, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

For G.W. Bush, A Bleak Winter Ahead ?

November 12, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The President and Polls - He does not believe in them

November 11, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Veterans’ Day 2005 - Remember the fallen in Iraq

November 11, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Go Pat, Go - The Taliban Among Us

November 11, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Judith Miller Retires from NY Times - What took so long ?

November 9, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Pennsylvania Adheres to Proven Ground, Kansas Caters to Dogmatic Christians

November 9, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

First, the Good News - Hubris Vanquished

November 9, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Riots in France - Europe at Crossroads

November 8, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Seduced by Glamour ?

November 7, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

For Soldiers in Iraq, A Bleak November

November 7, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Sunday Morning Soliloquies

November 6, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Hogs at the trough - The Hypocrites in Congress

November 5, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The American West and the Lewis & Clark Expedition

November 5, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Bloggers v. Sploggers

November 4, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Smirk goes to Argentina to attend Summit of the Americas

November 4, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Bush Administration and Our National Parks

November 3, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

A Debate between President Bush and Geena Davis (of Commander in Chief)

November 2, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

October was a cruel month - We lost 94 soldiers in Iraq

November 2, 2005 · 5 min · musafir

October  43

Texas Dodge ’em - Bush played the Alito Card

October 31, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Politics of Divisiveness - The Smirk is Back

October 31, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

India - Dowry System and Bride Burning

October 30, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Marine Corps Marathon

October 29, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Libby resigns – Charged with five counts in the CIA/Valerie Plame leak investigation

October 28, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Letter in The Guardian,UK, From A Vietnam Veteran

October 27, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Harriet Miers Fell on the Sword for Her Boss

October 27, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Casualties of War and Champions of War

October 26, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Enigma of Condoleezza Rice

October 25, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

A Wise Old Man Who Served Bush 41

October 24, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Iraqis and The Ministry of Defence Poll

October 23, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Prince “George” Without His Machiavelli

October 21, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Greece, Off the Beaten Path

October 20, 2005 · 5 min · musafir

The Tragic Fall of an once Proud Newspaper

October 20, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

A Bully Squirming - The Table has Turned On Tom DeLay

October 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Harriet Miers - Finally a Paper Trail Surfaces

October 18, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Evelyn Waugh* Paul Scott* Henning Mankell

October 18, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Slash and Burn, Cut and Run

October 18, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

How We Are Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq

October 17, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Kashmir - Tragedy in the Disputed Territory

October 16, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Deadline Oct.28th - All Eyes on Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald

October 16, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

For or Against Harriet Miers - Democrats In A No Win Situation

October 15, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Rutabaga and Other Root Vegetables

October 15, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Bush And A Vision of Apocalypse

October 15, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Harold Pinter Gets His Due

October 14, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Injured U.S. Soldiers

October 14, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The President’s Video Conference with Troops in Iraq

October 13, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The President Makes A Scripted, Orchestrated Appearance

October 13, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Elfriede Jelinek - Controversial author back in the news

October 13, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Third Way - The Path Back for Democrats

October 13, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Reading the President’s Body Language

October 12, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Blogging as Therapy - If it works, why not ?

October 11, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Pesky Reporters - The President Got Hot Under the Collar

October 11, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Victims of Natural Disasters - Largely the Poor

October 10, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Bush administration chalks up another achievement

October 10, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

A Turbulent Autumn in Foggy Bottom

October 9, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

G.W. Bush - New Cold Warrior or Creator of Red Herring?

October 7, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

El Jefe read a speech—a long one

October 6, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Women of Pakistan Cannot Be Silenced

October 6, 2005 · 7 min · musafir

Keep Oregon Free - Gonzales v. Oregon 04-623

October 5, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Judith Miller’s 85 Days in Prison

October 4, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

What Makes Harriet Miers Tick

October 4, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

October - Dylan Thomas, Wales and the San Francisco Peninsula

October 1, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

September  31

Iraq, The Slaughterhouse

September 30, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Phony Judith Miller

September 30, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Fall of Tom DeLay - How Sweet It Is !

September 29, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Iraqi Women better off now according to Karen Hughes

September 28, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Can the President escape the ghost of Katrina?

September 27, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

FEMA and DHS - Portraits of Abysmal Incompetence

September 23, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Anti-War Movement Spreading to Grass Roots ?

September 23, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Question for the good Christians at “Repent America” - Why Texas ?

September 23, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

A Red-tailed Hawk at Coal Mine Creek

September 22, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

U.S. Casualties in Iraq - Deaths in an Unjustified War

September 20, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Half Dome - Second Time up the Rock

September 19, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

The Sanctimonious President

September 19, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Germany: Is there a future for Gerhard Schröeder and the Social Democrats?

September 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Iraq Casualties 1900 and Counting - Marine Lance Cpl Shane C. Swanberg among them

September 19, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional

September 14, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Fix Is In for Katrina Reconstruction Work

September 13, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

All the President’s Friends

September 12, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Escape - To the pages of an old favorite and to a Big Piece of Rock

September 9, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Some Christians feel that citizens of New Orleans had it coming

September 8, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

25,000 Body Bags for Katrina Victims

September 8, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Masters of Deceit

September 7, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

After Katrina - The Wise One and Other Sensitive Souls

September 6, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

President Crossing Canal Street

September 5, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Six days before the 4th Anniversary of 9/11

September 5, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Randall Robinson in Huffington Post Sept.2, 2005

September 3, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

President of the “Haves and Have Mores” is peeved about Katrina

September 3, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Photo Opportunity for the President at New Orleans

September 2, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The President Grinned !

September 2, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Cannibalism in New Orleans

September 2, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Desire submerged but Hope must be kept alive in the aftermath of Katrina

September 1, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Attacks against Women’s Reproductive Rights Continue

September 1, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

August  24

Poverty Rate and Wealth Divide in the United States

August 30, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Welcome Polluters - This Land is Your Land

August 30, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Iraq - The Valiant Non-Combatants doing what they do best

August 26, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

A Fatwa for killing issued by a Reverend named Pat Robertson

August 26, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Naked Ladies are out strutting their stuff, and the “ache of summer”

August 25, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

What the President is “Reading” during his Vacation

August 17, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

August 17, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Gone Fishing

August 17, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“The Unfeeling President” - E.L. Doctorow’s Scathing Indictment

August 17, 2005 · 6 min · musafir

Lawrence, Massachusetts experiences a soldier’s trauma

August 16, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Jesus”, the Movie, Coming to your Mailbox

August 16, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Unrest among U.S. Catholics

August 15, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Mother Power rocks Fortress Bush

August 14, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Weep for Private 1st Class Nathaniel DeTample and others like him

August 13, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Terry Rodgers of Gaithersburg,MD and Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville,CA.

August 12, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Sir Mick Jagger of Rolling Stones says “new album not aimed at President Bush”

August 11, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The GOP Sex Police in action…..to protect the morals of women in Wisconsin

August 10, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Lance Corporal Edward August Schroeder II died with his boots on. For what?

August 9, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

There are Victims, and there are Victims

August 8, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Hiroshima - Sixty Years Later

August 6, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

As Ohio mourns its loss, President’s support drops

August 5, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

U.S. Casualties in Iraq - Names (by date)

August 4, 2005 · 87 min · musafir

Texas - “Onward Christian Soldiers”

August 3, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Opera in the Park on a Sunday afternoon

August 1, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

July  30

America’s Labor Unions

July 30, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Monsoon - The rains have arrived in India

July 28, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Roe v. Wade - The Attorney General Speaketh

July 27, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Election Fraud - Iraq January 2005

July 27, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Deranged religious mania” - Muslims at the Forefront

July 26, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Catholic Church and Women Priests

July 25, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Jean Charles de Menezes shot dead in London July 21, 2005

July 24, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Seasons

July 22, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Rapture Fiction: Books that the Born Again Christians love

July 21, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Civilian casualties in Iraq - the toll going up and up

July 20, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

This cannot be the Iraq that President Bush brags about

July 20, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Bombs, Blair, and the British Public

July 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Prescription Drugs and Profiteers

July 19, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Taboo Words - Before and after The Vagina Monologues

July 16, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Gibberish from the President - And Judith Miller deserves neither accolade nor sympathy

July 15, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Nolo Bastardo Carborundum”

July 14, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

A Red Hibiscus and “Remembrance of Things Past”

July 13, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Sleepless in Washington,DC - Fear of Indictments

July 11, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

India - A Fatwa against a raped Muslim woman

July 10, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons: Summer - A poem by Robert Haas

July 9, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

The New Puritans and Porn - “One Weird Country”

July 8, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Sinkhole (for our money) that is Iraq - A few billions here, a few billions there

July 7, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“There’ll always be an England”

July 7, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

G8 Summit at Gleneagle Hotel

July 6, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Veep dances around Gay Marriage Ban

July 6, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Tony Blair gets his Comeuppance at G8 Summit

July 5, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Independence Day 2005 and “A Stillness at Appomattox”

July 4, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Abe Lincoln,the Denizens of K Street and Tax Shelters that Stink of Corruption

July 2, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Supreme Court - Dark Clouds Gathering

July 1, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Fractious Friday Morning

July 1, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

June  30

The Supreme Court - Who will replace Chief Justice Rehnquist?

June 30, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Milking of 9/11 - Again

June 29, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Who leaked (who really leaked) Valerie Plame’s Identity?

June 28, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Liberation of Minnie Lou and Display of Ten Commandments

June 27, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Mission Accomplished” ?

June 26, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

A Gem in The Edmond Sun - Leaman Harris on Religious Intolerance

June 25, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

A College for grooming Stepford Wives…and Husbands

June 24, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Library Records Being Scrutinized by Big Brother

June 23, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Another Photo Opportunity for The Buffoons in Congress

June 22, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Fissures in the Facade - “All Hat and No Cattle”

June 21, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

First Day of Summer

June 21, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Hypocrisy about Hash

June 20, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Father’s Day - The Mess That Is Iraq

June 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Crooks in the Corporate World - Larceny at Grand Level

June 18, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

There are blogs and then there is “Belle de Jour”

June 17, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

DeLay, Frist, et al - Dodgers and Weavers

June 16, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Wheel of Justice moves in Argentina

June 16, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Pakistan, India, Muslims and treatment of women

June 15, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Shame of Pakistan - The Case of Mukhtar Mai

June 15, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Holy Rollers and Politicians in Texas

June 14, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Three films by Yasujiro Ozu

June 14, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Patriot Act,Part II

June 12, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Silence is Deafening - Where is the Outrage?

June 11, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Damsels in Distress - “The Medium is The Message”

June 10, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Sorrowing Lies My Land”

June 9, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Jordi Savall, Virtuoso of Viola da Gamba

June 8, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Religion and Politics in the USA and UK

June 6, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Voice of America confirms mishandling of Koran at Guantanamo

June 4, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Condoms and Cant

June 3, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Art and Craft of Torture

June 1, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

May  24

“No man is an island, entire of itself”

May 30, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

An Anti-War Poem by Yehuda Amichai

May 27, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Freedom Fries, Freedom Toasts and The Clowns of Capitol Hill

May 26, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Magnificent Water Falls at Yosemite National Park

May 25, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Showdown in U.S. Senate - Judicial Nominees and Appointments

May 23, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Remember Corporal Pat Tillman?

May 23, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Back to Abu Ghraib - The Cover Up

May 21, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Door to Door Brigades of Proselytizers

May 20, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Revenge of the Sith”

May 18, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

War against Iraq, “The Mother of All Smokescreens”

May 17, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Morning After Pill

May 16, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

There is Gold in Them Ther’ Hills (In Iraq), Hoo Boy

May 15, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

An Unusual Spring

May 13, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

PBS - Going, Going, Gone

May 12, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Masters of the Craft of “Crying Wolf”

May 11, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Abusers at Abu Ghraib

May 11, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Artful Leakers” and “Phantom Sources”

May 9, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

God is a Republican

May 7, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

A Tribute to Mothers, especially

May 6, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The havoc that Nader wrought

May 5, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

About Patriotism,Politics and Flags

May 4, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

End of PBS as we knew it - Grubby Hands Grasping Control

May 3, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Iraq and the War Against Terrorism

May 2, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Bix Beiderbecke

May 1, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

April  29

The Elections in Britain

April 30, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Judicial appointments and the right to Filibuster

April 30, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Support the Right to Arm Bears” (Bumper sticker seen in Palo Alto, California)

April 27, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The New Ruling Class

April 25, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Greenspan Tango (or Shuffle)

April 25, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Tony Blair and the War against Iraq

April 24, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Pope Benedict XVI’s role in Sex Abuse Enquiry

April 24, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Faith Based Politics in Action

April 23, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Pope Benedict XVI

April 23, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

Oil - Lifeblood of the Industrialized World

April 21, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Cars We Drive

April 20, 2005 · 9 min · musafir

Me Tarzan, You Jane

April 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Marla Ruzicka - A death in Iraq hits close to home

April 18, 2005 · 6 min · musafir

Mandarins of Morality and the “God” Card

April 17, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Great Movies on Video

April 16, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

“Axis of Weevils” - Beetles and Our Leaders

April 15, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Asparagus, Asperges, Asparagi

April 14, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Third Reich, the atrocities

April 14, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The wonderful, fascinating world of bloggers - Kindred Spirits

April 12, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Myths about Media

April 11, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Champions of Doomsday Worshippers

April 10, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Rabble Rousers - Where are the “Moderate” Republicans ?

April 9, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Hate Crimes in Northern California

April 9, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

A Walk through Yorkshire Dales

April 7, 2005 · 6 min · musafir

“Bible vs. the Volcano”, Adolescents and Oral Sex

April 5, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Terri Schiavo is dead and cremated

April 4, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Ann Patchet’s “Truth & Beauty” (a friendship)

April 4, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The “exterminator” on Bully Pulpit

April 2, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Good news for Bach lovers

April 1, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

March  29

Iraq - Selling of the War. The myth of the WMD

March 31, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Obscene Statues or Morbid Officials

March 31, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Vermont : An Enlightened State

March 30, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Extremists vs. the Rest of Us - Tyranny of the Bigots

March 29, 2005 · 4 min · musafir

The Gang That Lost Its Way

March 28, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Mission Accomplished” - 693 Days Later

March 27, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

About Runners and Running

March 26, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

God and Tom DeLay

March 24, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Agenda-driven Judicial Appointments

March 23, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

First Lieutenant Brian Slavenas, A Sequel

March 23, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Last Words on Terri Schiavo ?

March 22, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Virginity, Celibacy and All That Hype

March 21, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Pakistan - Antiquated Laws and Tribal Customs

March 21, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

First day of Spring

March 20, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

CEO Compensation in America

March 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Another Wet March Morning

March 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Faith Based Politics

March 18, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Bernie Ebbers Gets His Just Desserts, And There is Pinochet

March 17, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Omar Khayýam at Russian Ridge

March 15, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Bits and Pieces from Here and There

March 15, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

A Soldier Who Died Young

March 12, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Screw the Middle Class, Pamper the Wealthy

March 11, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Nazism is Dead, Long Live Nazism

March 9, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Pigs at the Trough - The Bankruptcy Bill

March 9, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Dildos and Dogmatists

March 7, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Children of the Brothels

March 4, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Pakistan, Still In Stone Age

March 4, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

A rainy day in March

March 3, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Crusaders and Jihadis – Killing In The Name Of God, Then and Now

March 1, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

February  17

“Softball” - The White House Press Corps

February 27, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Iraq - Death Tolls

February 26, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Seasons

February 24, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

AARP and Republicans

February 24, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

The Supreme Court to hear challenge to Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act

February 22, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Post-election Iraq - Comments from a woman in Baghdad

February 21, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Darfur, International Criminal Court and the United States

February 19, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Got My Mojo Working” (Muddy Waters, 1915-1983)

February 19, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Saudi Arabia Held Its First Election

February 17, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Sex And The Prudes, Just Say “No”

February 16, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Dummy” Corporations and Airplanes with Untraceable Owners

February 14, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Of Monkeys and Men

February 13, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Senators reject visible pants fine” (Guardian,UK)

February 12, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Hotel Rwanda”, The Movie

February 8, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Great Short Story Writers

February 7, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“A Giant Sucking Sound”

February 4, 2005 · 5 min · musafir

Bad for their knees, not to speak of sore palms

February 2, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

January  15

Dirty hands, us ?

January 31, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

He might listen but would he hear them ?

January 29, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Auschwitz - Sixty Years Later

January 27, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

“You’ve got to dance with them whut brung you”

January 26, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Risotto con Funghi

January 25, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Supreme Court - Life And Death Decisions By Individuals

January 24, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby”

January 22, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

“Swords into ploughshares”

January 20, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

Iraqi Elections - “Baghdad Burning”

January 20, 2005 · 1 min · musafir

“Fundos” Arising ? (The Taliban Amongst Us)

January 18, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Joy of Walking

January 15, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

Alberto Gonzales and the Statue of Minnie Lou

January 12, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

The Seasons

January 9, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

Books: Armageddon, etc.

January 7, 2005 · 3 min · musafir

The Tsunami, Wrath of God ?

January 4, 2005 · 2 min · musafir

2004  37

December  13

War And A Devastating Natural Calamity

December 31, 2004 · 1 min · musafir

Back to Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

December 29, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

A Stained, Blue Dress from Gap and “Operation Iraqi Freedom”

December 27, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Children of the Fallen (SHNS 12/15/04)

December 26, 2004 · 1 min · musafir

Hypocrisy Of The Champions of Moral Values

December 22, 2004 · 1 min · musafir

Iraq - Death Toll Mounts

December 22, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Maximum City - Bombay Lost And Found by Suketu Mehta

December 17, 2004 · 4 min · musafir

Augusto Pinochet, A Monster for All Seasons

December 13, 2004 · 1 min · musafir

More on “Kinsey” and neurotic, puritanical Americans

December 10, 2004 · 1 min · musafir

The Motorcycle Diaries

December 9, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

The Ghost of Alfred Kinsey and Osama bin Laden

December 8, 2004 · 3 min · musafir

A movie about the insecurities of men at crossroads. Also, a book about teen-age angst

December 6, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Re-emergence of the Sex Police, Grundyism Ascendent ?

December 4, 2004 · 3 min · musafir

November  12

A man called Gunasekhara and a troubled island

November 28, 2004 · 4 min · musafir

November 24, 2004 · 1 min · musafir

Thanksgiving Day

November 24, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Bigotry in America - Abrogation of Thomas Jefferson’s Principles

November 23, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Capt. Charles G. O’Connor ( Calcutta, India, 1959-Hoboken,NJ, 2004)

November 20, 2004 · 6 min · musafir

Margaret Hassan, “A Beacon of Light” snuffed out

November 17, 2004 · 1 min · musafir

Bach on a Tuesday morning

November 16, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Falluja, Mosul, Ramadi, Baquba, Samarra, Baghdad, and so on

November 15, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

The Northern Lights and Fall Colors - Nature’s Phenomena

November 12, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Elfriede Jelinek’s Complex World

November 8, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Post election ruminations in a Judeo-Christian Land

November 4, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Election 2004, AM November 2nd-AM November 3rd

November 2, 2004 · 3 min · musafir

October  10

Halloween 2004 - Eek! Return of the Compassionate Conservative

October 31, 2004 · 3 min · musafir

Casualties of War - Operation Iraqi Freedom

October 29, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Two Women – Margaret Hassan and Terri Schiavo

October 23, 2004 · 3 min · musafir

Musafir’s Musings

October 19, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Election 2004 (November 2nd) - The Third Debate and Women Voters

October 14, 2004 · 3 min · musafir

Fall is here and the trails are beckoning

October 9, 2004 · 3 min · musafir

President Bush, Iraq, and the fine art of lying

October 7, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

The Terri Schiavo case and thoughts about life—and death

October 4, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

A movie and a few books

October 3, 2004 · 3 min · musafir

Thoughts about people, places and events

October 1, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

September  2

Odds and Ends

September 29, 2004 · 2 min · musafir

Thoughts about people, places and events

September 26, 2004 · 3 min · musafir