Katherine R

As a follow up to my post Saturday about the Democrats and genocide, I’ve found some quotes from Clark. From the Meet the Press transcript that von just linked to: “But I’d been on the Joint Staff, Tim, when we sat by and we let happen the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda, hacked to … Read more

Two unrelated items: 1. This young marine and adopted New Yorker is just a wonderful writer. Read it. 2. I watched Howard Dean’s speech at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner last night (right after they auctioned off Tom Harkin’s tie and passed around buckets to raise money–politics is so unbelievably hokey sometimes.) It was a slightly … Read more

to prove I can write a short post: According to this survey, I am Charles Kennedy. My British relative approves. According to this one, I am “red” Ken Livingstone, which he says is “all right, if you don’t mind being completely f—— insane.” According to this, I write like a man. (It’s not close, either.) … Read more

There’s an interesting interview with the director of Amnesty International in Salon today. It’s mainly a critique of the anti-war movement (or at least its most visible members). But rather than start Iraq Debate Round 8072 I want to discuss these lines from the interview: “Certainly I have argued within Amnesty that in the face … Read more

This is ridiculous. The Justice Department is prosecuting Greenpeace for boarding a ship to protest illegal trade of mahogany. What Greenpeace did was illegal, and they were arrested by the Coast Guard, as is routine in a non-violent civil disobedience protest like this one. What is not routine is that: 1) the Justice department is … Read more

Hi. I’m Katherine , host #2. The liberal one. I try not to froth at the mouth, and to paraphrase my mother, I don’t hate Bush, I just hate the way he’s acting. I’ve been volunteering for the Howard Dean campaign on and off since last March, which should give an idea of both my … Read more