On the drive in to work this morning I had to stop and shot this field of yellow wildflowers with the moon setting above. Truth be told I had to drive away from work to arrange to drive by this spot. It seemed worth while at the time…

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Eugene Robinson has a really good muse on the Iraq war in todays column…It starts with this:
Eugene Robinson - 4,000 Dead for What? - washingtonpost.com

When U.S. military deaths in Iraq hit a round number, as happened Sunday, there’s usually a week or so of intense focus on the war — its bogus rationale, its [...]

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It’s not just the laws that have been passed. It’s not just the laws that have been vetoed. It’s not just the laws that GW Bush has said don’t apply to him as he signed them. In many ways it comes back to the appointments made to the different departments and agencies that do [...]

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Paul Krugman has an informative column up today…
Contrary to popular belief, the stock market crash of 1929 wasn’t the defining moment of the Great Depression. What turned an ordinary recession into a civilization-threatening slump was the wave of bank runs that swept across America in 1930 and 1931.
This banking crisis of the 1930s [...]

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