When I started Polimom Says in the summer of 2005, it was a diversion — a hobby with little purpose beyond personal gratification.
Mostly, it was because politics and current events were consuming so much mental energy that I’d found it difficult to not discuss them with my family, and they had grown very tired of […]
This weekend, many of Polimom’s online friends wrote timely, eloquent pieces about the life, death, and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. I wanted desperately to emulate them — to give voice to my thoughts — but Polimom had wandered a bit too deeply into the corridors of my mind.
Shaun Mullen’s beautiful post about his […]
I took a lot of heat for yesterday’s TMV post about supporting the “surge” proposal. Much of it was expected and some was not (particularly the more personal attacks), but there was one response that’s really bothering me.
The commenter made several numbered points, but this first one is where I’m stuck:
What is the deal with […]
There are still questions today about what type of “compound”, exactly, was raided by U.S. troops in Irbil. Did the detained Iranians have diplomatic status? Were those offices considered Iranian territory, as an offically designated consulate or embassy would be?
I’m sure the Iranians will say so, and the Americans will say not — the usual […]
So — the pizza joint is taking pesos, and America’s a goner:
DALLAS — A pizza chain has been hit with death threats and hate mail after offering to accept Mexican pesos, becoming another flashpoint in the nation’s debate over immigrants.
“This is the United States of America, not the United States of Mexico,” one e-mail read. […]
In a TMV comment this morning, I said:
Just at this moment in time [..], indications are that leaving Iraq will result in regional war and wholesale slaughter. I have no faith, but I can hope, that time — however much we can gain — will bring different scenarios.
Evidently, things were shifting even as I wrote […]
It was difficult to listen to the president describe the coming troop “surge” in Iraq — to give his proposal a fair hearing — because there’s so much water under this bridge. And 20,000 troops hardly sounds like a surge; I’d put it more along the lines of a burp.
But I listened.
It […]
Some time ago, I pretty much stopped writing about Iraq. I’m sad for the Iraqis whose lives have been thrown into the abyss; I’m appalled by the sectarian mayhem and human atrocities; I’m livid at my government, whose lack of planning for a post-invasion Iraq led to the entire mess.
And I’m utterly helpless to affect […]