Louis Vitale, 75, a Franciscan priest, and Steve Kelly, 58, a Jesuit priest, were each sentenced on Wednesday, October 17th to five months in federal prison. Their crime? Attempting to deliver a letter opposing the teaching of torture at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. The priests are now in prison. Common Dreams describes the offense thusly: […]
Newt Gingrich in Second Life
Guest Post by Ana Herzog Second Life passed another milestone today (Ouch! That sounds painful!) when Newt Gingrich used Capitol Hill SL today to announce his new plan to take over America. This photo of Gingrich is courtesy of Liz Link. Used with permission. The metaverse becomes more like real life every day…. the buying […]
Call the Speaker and protest her "boys" assault on the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
I’m trying to find out how the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. is doing today after being tackled by 6 Capitol Hill cops who decided Rev. Yearwood shouldn’t entrer the Patraeus hearings yesterday. He had waited in line with the women of CODEPINK and other progressive folks for hours in order to get in to the […]
Patriot Act Co-author Favored as Gonzales Replacement
Alberto Gonzales publicly announced his resignation as Attorney General of the U.S. publicly today after having turned in his resignation in to Bush on Friday. This is no victory for America. This is a shuffle of a sniveling little suck-up and power-hungry elitist to a duplicitous situational ethicist. Even his old school legal buddies abandoned […]
Bayh is a Rebu….no, he's a Demo…. what is he?
Probably not one of my last posts about Indiana even though I’m on the road back home to Tucson. I feel more comfortable blogging about it when I’m not there. The place scares me. Conservative doesn’t even begin to describe the climate there. Anyway… the supposedly Democratic Senator Evan Bayh finally (after years of Hoosier […]
The Tide is Turning
Reuters is mainstream, no? Well, they sent out a story that Common Dreams picked up today about the perfectly ripe and ready to be plucked activist spirit fruiting in the U.S. It’s true. I was in Ft. Wayne today and needed to do some personal errands and in the course of human events I ran […]