South America continues moving sharply to the left Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is facing a major setback to his plans to overhaul the political system and push through austerity measures. Mr Uribe called a referendum on Saturday to seek public backing…

Simi Valley fire (Note: TextAmerica just started a camblog of photos of the California fires, it’s at fire.textamerica.com) Ordinarily a fire of 50,000 acres that had destroyed fifteen homes would be getting huge attention, but given the number and ferocity of…

Blogrolls and comments The blogrolls in the right hand column have been loading very slowly, and thus have been slowing the site down — so I’ve taken them off temporarily. I’m changing the comments system to HaloScan, which should give…

Southern California wildfires On the bus ride back from the San Francisco demo last night, we passed dozens of fire engines, also headed South on I-5, and realized the fires must have gotten very bad indeed. When fire companies come from…

San Francisco demo I’m exhausted! Twelve hours of bus rides and a march and rally in a 24 hour period. However I did want to get these photos up. There are more photos on my camblog — posters, street theatre, etc..…

I’m off to the S.F. demonstration. And will return late Saturday night. The bus leaves L.A. midnight tonight, Friday, and returns midnight Saturday. The rally, which will go from 11 am to 2 pm EST, will be broadcast live on C-Span…