Maine gubernatorial candidate Chris Miller recently asked why elected Democrats in Maine are not moving to introduce articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. My response is below.

Mahmood Ahmadi-Najad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, made me cry this morning.

Living in New Orleans these last few months I think I've become somewhat jaded as to which things are normal and okay, and which things are truly evil and terrible. This morning, having coffee at a beautifully reclaimed (if rough) burned out former crackhouse, someone described my neighborhood as, "post-apocolyptic." My neighborhood pride was wounded, but after a minute it made me pause.

Sometimes I think our whole of our country has a similiar perception problem with regards to it's role in the world, and even the direction of its domestic agenda. What is our society organized for?

Rita J. King writes "Entergy Holds New Orleans for Ransom", May 10th, 2006

Entergy, the largest electricity distributor in the U.S., has enjoyed healthy profits since Hurricane Katrina. Yet its New Orleans subsidiary has filed for bankruptcy, and frightened ratepayers with visions of bills bloated to 140% of their pre-storm size. Now the Fortune 500 company is threatening to pull the plug on New Orleans if it doesn't get a $700 million-plus federal bailout it doesn't actually need. [ more]

Almost a year ago I was in Machais Maine for the re-dedication of the Beehive's Grange hall, where the local grange was invited to return to their historic building.