Hat tip to Tambay
Shell in Iraqi gas deal worth up to $4bn
By Ed Crooks and Roula Khalaf in London
Royal Dutch Shell is to become the first western oil company to sign a deal with the Iraqi government since the US-led invasion of 2003, agreeing a plan to capture and use gas in the Basra region […]
…I’m going to post about Sarah Palin. Steph got me talking about her in the comments here, and the next thing you know, I’m driving to pick Mini-Me up from school this afternoon and my mind wanders to, “I wonder what Ann Coulter has to say about Sarah Palin.”
Ann Coulter drives me nuts because she’s […]
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Resigns, Pleads, Pays Fine, Loses Law License, Will Do Time
Tami Winfrey Harris of WhatTamiSaid is the blogger I want to be when I grow up. Her analysis and perspectives on this election manage to be informative, insightful, *and* heartfelt. You know, average folk can’t do all of that. (Tami is also the editor of AntiRacistParent.com). Here’s a recent taste of Tami:
What We Deserve (A […]
Allow me introduce you to author (Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African-Americans, scheduled for a 2009 re-release) and entertainment/media consultant Roland Laird holding court on his blog, Posro. Find out why Malcolm X’s “House Slave/Field Slave” speech “though rhetorically brilliant, was ultimately divisive and imprecise”; how Martin Luther King, Jr. might have fumbled […]
He’s skipping the Convention.
I went to a house party/potluck tonight hosted by my friend and fellow writing comrade, Faith. Can I tell you how blessed I am to have a friend who is Finnish and Nigerian and a great cook versed in multi-ethnic cuisine and whose parties feature fabulous-but-grounded people from all over the planet (House […]
G8 leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis!
(hat tip to TAO, my brother from another mother)
Interesting NYT article on how Clinton supporters are coming around…slowly.
Here’s a quote from the litterbox article:
The hard-core Hillary supporters have certainly not yet achieved total unification bliss. Perhaps it’s just that their heroine hasn’t had a chance yet to reprogram each one individually. (“Repeat after me: ‘This will all work out.’ And let me hear […]
I like this breakdown of how Clinton’s presumptuousness about superdelegate loyalty was her undoing. They didn’t mention her bigger-than-Texas-sized sense of entitlement outright, but you can read between the lines. Some highlights:
“Sure, Senator Clinton was the favorite early on, but that was simply because of the institutional support that she already had,” […]
