Chto Dyelat?

Al Qaeda: The Looming Terror An AC360 investigation into the formation of al Qaeda, where they are now, and their illusive leader. Tomorrow night, 10 p.m. ET -CNN.com, 11 November 2007 A little over ninety years ago, Vlad Lenin completed…

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Greatest Comeback Ever? (or: 7-50)

I’m well aware that I haven’t posted in a while, and this isn’t really a “real” post anyway. The holiday season is hitting full stride and people have been crazy at work and at home. It’s a three-day weekend, but…

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Smells Like Grandmothers

Glide has several buildings in the Tenderloin, and while I primarily work at one (the Family, Youth and Childcare Center), I often have occasion to visit the others, especially the “main” building at 330 Ellis. This building is the home…

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Terrorism and Other Myths

File this one next to “Iran will acquire toasters” as part two in a series of explaining basic principles of political reality that the entire world fails to understand. Was that too harsh? I don’t think this post is going…

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