Monday, June 6th, 2005
The Challenge
From Radley Balko:
Blogs have also proven deft at triggering resignations, firings, retractions, and exposing conflict. Why not see if we can put this medium to use to bring relief to sick people?
Archive for June 6th, 2005
Monday, June 6th, 2005
Raich
Only Anthony Hecht, in fragment, is adequate to the moment:
. . . But for more than a week
I was scared by the plain bitterness of what I had seen.
Gah.
[Angel] Raich, an Oakland woman suffering from ailments including scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea, fatigue and pain, smokes marijuana every few hours. She said she was [...]
Monday, June 6th, 2005
THAT Didn’t Go So Well
There’s actually some Good News in the much-noted mea culpa by Newsweek’s repentant war supporter Ron Nordland: Nordland pegs current Iraqi unemployment at around 18%, which is way way down from early postwar estimates of 50+. But there’s some bad news too:
The four-square-mile Green Zone, the one place in Baghdad where foreigners are reasonably safe, [...]
