Watching my Google feeds on Renzi is fascinating. Major and minor events in the story ripple outward from Arizona and Washington DC across the nation as major newspaper chains and television networks carry the news. Then the news slops over into smaller papers and local stations. By this time a new development will begin to … Read more
With Gabby Giffords holding an uncommitted vote for our next Democratic Presidential nominee, it would be wise of her to consider what that nominee can bring to her own race for re-election. Rookie scientist-citizen candidate Bill Foster’s 53-47 upset victory in former Speaker Dennis Hastert’s old district demonstrates that Obama, who endorsed and campaigned for … Read more
•Reading Liberally 3/10 @ 1800• Reading Liberally will meet on Monday 3/10 at 7:30pm. We are reading "A More Perfect Constitution". Please feel free to come as early as 6pm to enjoy a social hour. Location: Lisa Henderson’s house @ 1503 E. Ft. Lowell, Apt D, between Mountain and Campbell. Please park in back. •Drinking … Read more
by David Safier I spent Friday morning at Picacho Peak. It was lovely. The wildflowers in clumps amid the cactus were a treat. Poppies are plentiful, lupines (the blue flowers) less so, and the small yellow brittlebush flowers were not open yet. They say that the flower show will fade soon if we don’t get … Read more
If you haven’t seen the 3rd part of the BBC’s "The Power of Nightmares," which details the invention of Al Qaeda as a vast terrorist network, you should see it: