Month May 2008

Why enemies sometimes need each other

Donald Rumsfeld says another terrorist attack could restore the neo-con agenda. Reader DJ Mitchell often blogs about this at Asymptotic Life, about how if participants in a supposed peace process never somehow manage to achieve peace, then quite probably they…

Howard Zinn on anarchism and organizing

If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even now in the US, where people on the “Left”…

Thoughts on selling our house

Yes, the delayed escrow of 16 days was nerve-rattling, especially since we’d already moved. But the circumstances of our home sale were, especially considering the current real estate situation, quite extraordinary. We had been thinking about selling when, out of…

Smartfortwo gets high marks on crash test

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested the tiny Smartfortwo for crash safety. [The Smartfortwo] earned the top rating of good for front and side crash protection. Its seat/head restraints earned the second highest rating of acceptable for protection against…