Afghan feminists — the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan — have said all along that US intervention in Afghanistan was wrong and would not help Afghan women.

I first heard of RAWA when I read about its opposition to the coming attack on Iraq. But I learned a lot of background about RAWA from this article.

Afghanistan was never a "breeding ground" for terrorism against the US, so disregard attempts to distract you with that fake concern.

The article refers to Dubya's dubious claim to have won the 2000 election, but it's much worse than that. We know that the election was rigged by Republicans, by voter suppression. And they're at it again now.

David Werking stayed in his parents' house for 10 months, then later discovered that they had thrown out his collection of porn while it was there. He sued them and won about $30,000 plus his legal fees.

The parents seem to have believed that, despite David's being 42 years old and formerly married, he was still their little baby and they were entitled to dictate his sex life. Most parents don't take this sense of entitlement to the point of being ridiculous, but many try to control offspring that have already developed their own idea of sexuality and desires.

Sanders refuses to negotiate a "compromise" to make the family aid bill smaller, saying that he's already done that negotiation and the current bill is the deal that was agreed on.

It's a standard tactic of right-wing politicians, whether Republican or Democrat, to demand we meet them half-way, starting from a deal in which we met them half way. The result is to meet them three-quarters of the way. Then they may try it again and demand another eighth. Usually Democrats go along with that, but progressives today won't do it.

If we can't help renegotiating, we should start from our original starting proposal — the whole of what we really ought to do for non-rich Americans.

The largest generic drug plant in the US recently closed. The government might have been able to stop this.

Was it really possible to invoke the Defense Production Act. There may have been some legal barrier to doing so — I don't know. To form an organization to buy the plant and keep it operating might have been another method. So why wasn't this done?

I wonder if this has something to do with placating Senator Manchin. If so, I think the public got the short end of the deal, since he still refuses to eliminate the filibuster.