In Defense of Chief Harry Tinsley

It is very rare for this blog to discuss anyone by name other than the Fire Chief. In the case of Assistant Chief Harry Tinsley, currently serving as...

California’s Prop 14: The People vs. The Parties

Independent voters in California (aka “decline to state”) vote in primaries at the whim of the party big-shots. And California Dems (inclu...

Haiti: Video Diary from Mat Morgan

Increasingly hairy American Red Cross worker Mat Morgan updates us on what’s happening in Port-au-Prince...

You Have Been Challenged

Calling all college students and alumni! A new American Red Cross Blood Donors Facebook application was launched yesterday: Campus Blood Donor Challen...

Confused Narratives on Marjah

From Gareth Porter at the Asia Times. For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was to...