Cell phone pictures of Connecticut The first is the sign on the barn where we bought maple syrup, which operated on the honor system. Walk into the sugaring shack, fill up a container with maple syrup, leave a check. $23 for…

Pentagon fearing falling morale, enlistments, plans massive troop rotation in Iraq The Pentagon is preparing to rotate a quarter of a million troops into and out of Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan early next year in a massive and risky undertaking…

Who would have EVER imagined this would happen? Schwarzenegger retreats on key campaign vows Retreating from two central campaign promises that helped make him governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday dropped his personal “guarantee” that cities and counties would be compensated…

President Chavez of Venezuela From Greg Palast In ten years of free market free-for-all, industrialization in Venezuela dropped from 18% of GNP to 13%.  And Venezuela fared best. Elsewhere in Latin America, economies simply imploded.  And NAFTA created employment only…

Bush the Craven To conservatives, it was a shocking scene. President Bush sat chatting chummily in the Oval Office on Tuesday with the premier of communist China and harshly rebuked the democratically elected leader of the United States’ old friend…

Damn In a heartbreaking defeat for San Francisco’s progressive voters, Matt Gonzalez narrowly lost his first bid for mayor today. In a 52-48 vote, Supervisor Gavin Newsom won the highly contested election. Still, Matt ran an amazing campaign, coming out…

I’m (finally) back. My six hour flight from Connecticut to Los Angeles took eighteen hours, after bad weather forced me to spend the night at a Ramada Inn at O’Hare airport after missing a connecting flight. Yow. However it was…