Adgita Diaries

April 2005



Peeling The Onion

Saturday, 30 April 2005 8:00 P GMT-04
King of Zembla http://simbaud.blogspot.com/2005/04/joe-bageant-supplicants.html King of Zembla is a terrific site and continually offers potent, informative, and insightful opinion on a variety of cultural, religious and above all--political happenin

OPPS!

Friday, 29 April 2005 11:47 P GMT-04
Our apologies to columnist Richard Rosendall for failing to quote him correctly in paragraph nine of the "Anyone Smell a RAT-zinger" piece. Although Mr. Rosendall was quoted correctly elsewhere in the article he feels we have committed plag

RAT Redux

Friday, 29 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
The following article was submitted prior to the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to the position of Pope benedict XVI. The piece contained references from the work of columnist Richard Rosendall, who objected to their inclusion. (see OPPS!). It

SO, NEW?

Friday, 29 April 2005 4:23 A GMT-04
                                                     AMONG FRIENDS         http://www.tadbartimus.com"Tad Bartimus has always been a storyteller. As a bureau chief, war correspondent in

Sattva : United We Strand

Thursday, 28 April 2005 3:57 P GMT-04
Sattva, or the potency to sustain and nourish; one of the three gunas.The Sanskrit word guna has the basic meaning of "string" or "a single thread or strand of a cord or twine". In more abstract uses, it may mean "a subdivisi

Its A Dog's Life

Wednesday, 27 April 2005 2:41 A GMT-04
                                                         Happy Birthday Harry Hound

Chicken Shit

Tuesday, 26 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                              South Carolina, that bastion of duh-dumb has, according to columnist Leonard Pitts, become the American poster state for backwar

Entropic Topic

Sunday, 24 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                              Entropy 1 : a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder and t

Mother Nature Pees on Bush

Saturday, 23 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
Townsend Tenn.--A severe thunderstorm in the Smokey Mountains prevented the Bushie from marking Earth Day and dedicating a trail restoration project. According to Edwin Chen of The Los Angeles Times Mother Nature got a leg up first. Instead of a '

Devil In A Red Dress

Wednesday, 20 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
We thank good friend Susan Lamont for the following and pass it along in its entirety: "Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the world's largest circulation progressive Jewish magazine, TIKKUN, and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco, took

Pope Goes the Weasel

Tuesday, 19 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
Did we have a premination or what? Were we haunted by a holy ghost? 'Rat'ta tat tat. Exorcising Ratzinger's ghosts is going to take considerable effort-- Like, for example, his oath as a Nazi, Hitler Youth Member.(see airbeagle for more details) In

The Screaming Me Me's

Monday, 18 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                               We give a heartfelt thanks to firedoglake for sending us into outerspace with a copy of "String Theory" and unlimited fuel: book and meme. If you h

WORDS II

Saturday, 16 April 2005 6:45 P GMT-04
More Great Words: firedoglake: 1.) pumpkin head---don't know why, but it's funny as hell, especially when applied to notables 2.) bedwetting liberals --that depends 3.) spokesloon-- and birds of a feather 4.) blizzards of bombs-- kinda like bu

Four Horsethings of the Apocalyptic

Saturday, 16 April 2005 4:25 A GMT-04
                                     Is it any wonder that our Fundi friends are beside themselves waiting for the rupture, er Rapture? Have you ever met a bunch of more positive negative folks?  And that smiley-f

Nuts And Bolton

Friday, 15 April 2005 6:34 P GMT-04
We go with columnist Richard Cohen on the nomination of uber Vadar John Bolton to the post of Ambassador to the United Nations: "I have until now withheld my first--and only impression of John Bolton, probably destined to be the next American ambassa

Oily Agenous Spread

Thursday, 14 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                 Those who follow the intriques of America's Big Oil interests have been waiting some time now for the other shoe to drop. It has--Venezula and the local g

Movie Magic

Thursday, 14 April 2005 4:07 P GMT-04
As happens so often when reading Jane Hamsher's Firedoglake site we come away with stimulating information and many thought provoking ideas. Copied in it's entirety below is the article Republican Lite which touches on the subjects of the rating game

When Granny Goes Rad

Tuesday, 12 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
Bigot grannies are all the rage now in blue states. And so it is in California. California mirrors the divide of Red and Blue that is now America. The coast and urban areas are primarily blue. The Central Valley and Sierras are fundi-red. While many

Resistance And Revival: Buchenwald & Theresienstadt.

Tuesday, 12 April 2005 2:39 A GMT-04
                                                   Pavel Kohn survived a death march from Auschwitz and a winter train trip in  open coal cars.  He arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp a frostbit

WORDS

Monday, 11 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
On occasion, while surfing the blogscape of the Internet, we find wonderful words-- like those " rubies and garlic in the mud ," poet T.S. Elliot once penned. Here are some for you from our most favorite sites. Do visit these sites-- they a

High Society

Sunday, 10 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                           We are not certain under which category to file the royal marriage of Charles and Camilla, but one thing is sure-- they were beaming with happiness. And that is a go

Perfectly Clear

Saturday, 9 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                           A long while back it seems now, we uncovered what we thought to be George Bush's definitive solution to the social security problem

Today's Your Birthday

Saturday, 9 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                    The guys at Adgita Diaries have been celebrating M's (of MandT) Birthday Week. Please check back- new updates are in the works!

Givers Takers Doers

Thursday, 7 April 2005 7:59 P GMT-04
                                                                                                                             

Omni-Pope-Tenti

Wednesday, 6 April 2005 3:33 A GMT-04
                                                          When a brillant comet lights an arc through the night sky many see wonder, a sign of heaven, magic, a portent, or the beauty of the divi