Archive for March, 2009

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So Say We All

Goodbye, Battlestar Galactica.

It took me nearly a week to finally sit down and write this post, to shake off the dread, the chills, and the night sweats and claw my way to the computer to bid farewell to what? A goddamned TELEVISION SHOW. [...]

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Free Muntadhar al-Zeidi: Why the Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Should be Pardoned

An Iraqi court handed down a sentence today for Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who became instantly famous worldwide for throwing his shoes at then-President George W. Bush back in January. Three years in prison. Three years to sit with his pejorative from that day ringing in his ears [...]

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Fear of Spring

I felt it last week. Spring.

The temperature rocketed up into the high-50s, and the atmosphere became unstable. That night was marked by incessant thunder and lightning and a torrential rain that prompted a Flash Flood Warning [...]