Today's Stories

Feb. 27 - March 1, 2009

Harry Browne
Where the Cheats Have No Shame

February 26, 2009

Dave Lindorff
Obama's Address to Congress

Jonathan Cook
Israel's Military Mephistopheles

Patrick Cockburn
Did the US Learn Anything in Iraq?

Mike Whitney
The Geithner Put

Eamonn McCann
"Make Bono Pay Tax"

Tim Wise
Eric Holder and the Whitewashing of Racism

Tom Barry
Napolitano's Hard Line

Harvey Wasserman
Obama's Excellent Atomic Omission

Adam Turl
The Enemies of Unions and the Lies They Tell

David Macaray
When People are Fired Illegally

James McEnteer
Rush to the Rescue: Limbaugh's Secret Plan to Save the Economy

Website of the Day
The Carbon Casino

February 25, 2009

Chris Sands
Afghanistan: Chaos Central

M. Shahid Alam
Israel in 1948: Poised for Expansion

Chris Floyd
Obama's Non-Withdrawal Withdrawal Plan

Dave Lindorff
Wall Street and Bernanke: the Blind Leading the Blind

Norman Solomon
The Slow Pullout Method

Rachel Godfrey Wood
Neoliberals Do The Amazon

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Teacher and Student: the New Class Struggle

Ron Jacobs
It Ain't Over Till It's Over

Nadia Hijab
The First Waltz

Dennis Loo
The Water Line

Website of the Day
Hitchens Gets Stomped by Syrian Nerd

February 24, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts
How the Economy was Lost

Uri Avnery
Coalition Theory

Peter Morici
Is Nationalization Inevitable?

Jonathan Cook
Arab Parties Face Most Hostile Knesset in History

Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
The Man Who Shouldn't be King (of Afghanistan)

Andy Worthington
Who is Binyam Mohamed?

Brian Horejsi
Crisis Creates Hope for Reality

Julia Stein
I was a Writer for the Government

Norm Kent
How Judges Disgrace the Bench

Rachel Smolker /
Brian Tokar
Biofuels, Promise or Threat?

Dennis Loo
The Water Line: Doing What Must be Done

James McEnteer
The Oscar for Denial

Website of the Day
How to Destroy a Fox News Anchor

February 23, 2009

Michael Hudson
The Language of Looting

Mike Roselle
On Cherry Pond: Going Up Against Big Coal in W. Virginia

Patrick Cockburn
The New War in Iraq

Franklin Spinney
Obama Steps on the Pentagon Escalator

Einar Már Guðmundsson
A War Cry From the North

Ralph Nader
How Credit Unions Survived the Crash

Jordan Flaherty
A New Orleans Intifada?

Helen Redmond
Ted's Table: Kennedy and the Corporate Lobbyists Craft a Health Plan

Dennis Loo
The Water Line

Harvey Wasserman
Jet Crashes and Nuclear Reactors: Feds Ignore a Serious Risk

Terry Lodge
The Intelligence is Wrong

Website of the Day
BadCreditReport.Com

February 20 / 22, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
The Lawyer's Tale

Michael Neumann /
Osha Neumann
Remove Our Grandmother's Name from the Wall at Yad Vashem

Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Herbert Hoover Copycats

Paul Craig Roberts
Bill of Rights Under Fire

Linn Washington Jr.
The NY Post's Chimpanzee Cartoon

Saul Landau
On the Road Again

Marjorie Cohn
War Criminals Must be Prosecuted (And Their Lawyers Too)

Binoy Kampmark
Cricket and Cartels: the Fall of Sir Allen Stanford

Dave Lindorff
Using the Recession to Hammer Workers

David Yearsley
Edward Said's Greatest Musical Writings

David Macaray
A Closer Look at the Employee Free Choice Act

James McEnteer
Last Mambo in Minnehaha

Rick Salutin
A Canadian Looks at Obama

Wayne Clark
South Carolina Nears the Abyss

Richard Rhames
Got Farms?

Stephen Martin
Silver Mist Descending

Mitu Sengupta
Slumdog Millionaire's Dehumanizing View of India's Poor

Charles R. Larson
Slumdog Reality?

Richard Morse
Carnival Ramble in Haiti

Lorenzo Wolff
Desperation in an Unavoidable Groove

Poets' Basement
Three Poems of Tu Fu (Trans. K. Rexroth)

Website of the Weekend
Ron Paul: What If the People Wake Up?

February 19, 2009

Norman Finkelstein
The Cleanser: Lobbyists Whistle Up Cordesman to "Prove" Israel Waged a Clean War in Gaza

Harry Browne
How Ireland Went Bust

Robert Bryce
Why the Promise of Biofuels is a Lie

Brian M. Downing
The Winding Road: From Western Europe to Kyrgyzstan

Fred Gardner
The DEA Chief's $123,000 Flight

Andy Worthington
Obama's Uighur Problem

Wajahat Ali
Aftermath of a Beheading

Laura Carlsen
A New Attitude at the White House Toward Bolivia and Venezuela?

Deb Reich
Gaza: Choose Life!

Christopher Ketcham
Crisis? What Crisis?

Website of the Day
Taking Back NYU

February 18, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts
President of Special Interests

Mike Whitney
Trouble at Treasury

M. Shahid Alam
Afghan Pitfalls

Patrick Cockburn
A Real Surge at Last

Conn Hallinan
Death's Laboratory

Dave Lindorff
Whatever Happened to Antitrust?

Rannie Amiri
The Perils of Blogging in Egypt

Gareth Porter
Pushing Back Against Petraeus on Pullout Risks

Eric Hobsbawm
Remembering V. G. Kiernan

Christopher Brauchli
The Pope's Predicament

Martha Rosenberg
It's the Cymbalta Stupid

Website of the Day
Red Gold

February 17, 2009

Michael Hudson
The Oligarchs' Escape Plan

Mike Whitney
The Global Ditch

Ralph Nader
The One-Dimensional Congress

Joanne Mariner
Benchmarking Obama: How to Evaluate the New Administration's Counter-Terrorism Policies

John Ross
Commodifying the Revolution: Zapatista Villages Become Hot
Tourist Destinations

Belén Fernández
The Venezuelan Referendum From the Back of a Pickup Truck

Mats Svensson
Who is a Terrorist?

David Macaray
Why America Needs Labor Unions

Gregory Vickrey
$400 in Change

M. Junaid Levesque-Alam
Another Hamastan?

Michael Dickinson
Unrest in Istanbul

Website of the Day
Take a Stand for Open Access

February 16, 2009

Patrick Cockburn
Iraq Reconstruction: the Greatest Fraud in US History?

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
The Truth About Colombia's New Emperor

Paul Craig Roberts
Who Remembers Guns and Butter?

Uri Avnery
Livni's Bitter Options

P. Sainath
The Meltdown: Whose Crisis Is It?

Dedrick Muhammad / Michael Brown
White Recession, Black Depression

Carla Blank
A New New Deal for the Arts

Patrick Irelan
Venezuela Ends Term Limits

Dan Bacher
Is Delta Pumping Driving Salmon and Orca Decline?

Fidel Castro
Chavez's Clarion Call

Harvey Wasserman
Hail to the Spleef: Did George Washington Smoke Pot?

Website of the Day
Mining Black Mesa

February 13 - 15, 2009

Alexander Cockburn
On the Rocks

Joshua Frank
The Myth of Clean Coal

Mike Whitney
Geithner's Coming Out Party

George Ciccariello-Maher
Venezuela's Term Limits: More Hypocrisy From the NYT

Nikolas Kozloff
Venezuela Beyond the Referendum

Brian M. Downing
Pakistan on the Brink

Paul Craig Roberts
Deficit Nonchalance

Christopher Ketcham
Israel's Ball Boys

Ron Jacobs
At a Campus Sit-In Against Israeli Occupation

Dave Lindorff
Why Can Judd Gregg See What Obama Can't?

Alan Maass
Lincoln at 200

Chuck Spinney
Grassley Sounds Off on Obama's Man at the Pentagon

Phil Gasper
Mr. Darwin's Reluctant Revolution

Stephen Lendman
A Short History of Business Handouts

Charles Thomson
Tate Cruises: Caveat Emptor on the High Seas

Kathy Sanborn
The Suicide Rush

Saul Landau
Bowled Over

Len Wengraf
The Nightmare in Somalia

Harvey Wasserman
Striking a Blow Against Nuclear Power

David Macaray
An Easy Call for Obama on Joining a Union

Tom Stephens
Four Freedoms, Four Changes

Seth Sandronsky
Lincoln and the Collective Mind

David Yearsley
On the Road Again

Lorenzo Wolff
Freaking Out With Danny Barnes

Kim Nicolini
The Body of the Worker: What "The Wrestler" Says About the State of America

Poets' Basement
Anderson, Buknatski and French

Website of the Weekend
The Iranian Revoution and the US Dual Containment Policy: a Presentation

February 12, 2009

P. Sainath
Neo-Liberal Terrorism in India: The Largest Wave of Suicides in History

Jean Bricmont
French Echoes of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict

Michael Hudson
Trying to Revive the Bubble Economy: Obama's Awful Financial Recovery Plan

Peter Lee
Pakistan, Not Afghanistan, is the Main Event

Dave Lindorff
Judges Nabbed, Jailing Kids for Kickbacks

February 11, 2009

Neve Gordon
Few Peacemakers in the New Israeli Knesset

Peter Morici
Anatomy of a Hemorrhage

Andy Worthington
Who's Running Guantánamo?

Marjorie Cohn
A Call to End All Renditions

Fred Gardner
Change We Can Smoke?

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The G & O (Geithner and Obama) Bank

Zoe Blunt
Vancouver Island Hippies: Top Security Threat for 2010?

Belén Fernández
Politics on the Panamericana

Martha Rosenberg
Don't Breathe the Meat

Website of the Day
George Dyson on Project Orion

Blues of the Day
David Vest on the CBC

February 10, 2009

Kathy Kelly
How Do People Keep Going?

Nikolas Kozloff
The Stimulus Imbroglio

Uri Avnery
Dirty Socks

Michael J. Berg
Will South Carolina be the Center of the Nuclear Revival?

Russell Mokhiber
Et Tu, Atul?

Joe Bageant
A Commodity Called Misery

Gareth Porter
Petraeus' Subterfuge

Dave Lindorff
Seek Truth, But Prosecute Liars

Rannie Amiri
The Implications of Recognizing Israel's "Right to Exist"

Harvey Wasserman
Nukes and the Stimulus

Niranjan Ramakrishnan
What We Didn't Learn at Obama's Press Conference

Website of the Day
RIAA Takes Over DoJ Under Obama

February 9, 2009

Vicente Navarro
Why Sanjay Gupta is the Wrong Man for Top US Health Job

Paul Craig Roberts
Driving Over the Cliff

Julio Sanchez /
Feliz de Bedout
The Threat of Peace in Colombia: an Interview with Hollman Morris

National Lawyers Guild
Strong Indications of Israeli War Crimes

Jonathan Cook
Israeli University Welcomes "War Crimes" Colonel

Alana Smith
The Nightmarish Case of Fahad Hashmi

Binoy Kampmark
Taking the Bong

Sam Bahour
End the Occupation First

Nicole Colson
Can You Afford College?

Ron Jacobs
Remembering the Second Intifada

Website of the Day
The Legacy of Ed Grothus and the Black Hole

Norman Solomon
Why are We Still at War?

David Macaray
The Late, Great UAW

Website of the Day
The Bloody Cove

Weekend Edition
February 27 - March 1, 2009

The News About Beowulf Isn't Good...

Sleeping with Dogs

By CHARLES R. LARSON

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>        Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:43 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

Dear Angela,
As u guessed by my silence, the news about Beowulf isn’t good: barking all the time ever since your departure, peeing uncontrollably, irritated at me especially (since I am not you!!!)—in short, depressed.  Sleepless nights 4 both of us 4 more than a month, so yesterday I took your pooch to Doc Schwitzer, the vet u recommended, who placed your brave warrior on Prozac.  I hope u will understand.
Love, Chad

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                  Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 6:43 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

Chad Dearest,
What do you mean “depressed”?  My happy, joyful Beowulf—the love of my life next to you?  How can my devoted canine become depressed in less than a month’s time?   Provide more details.  I can’t understand Dr. Schwitzer, who has treated Beowulf forever, recommending such drastic treatment.  Please explain.
Love, Angela

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>          Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 8:47 AM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

Dear Angela,
Well, I did inquire ask about a lobotomy after the Doc suggested that 4 some dogs the trauma of a loved 1’s departure can be so overwhelming that nothing less than medicine designed 4 humans is the only solution.  Doc implied that Beowulf assumes that u have died and gone to heaven.  And since u are going to be gone 4 a year, instead of a weekend, the best solution is to treat Beowulf as human as u or I.
Chad

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>             Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 6:21 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

Dear Chad,
But Beowulf is as human as you or me.
Angela

<Big12in@hotmail>                Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:07 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

Angela,
Exactly, so u can understand why I made the decision I did (after consulting the good Doc, of course).
Chad

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                  Mon, Oct 2, 2006 at 6:37 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

Chad,
But is my beloved any better?  Has she gotten over all that behavior that led you to consult Dr S in the first place?
Angela

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>             Mon, Oct 2, 2006 at 7:01 PM
To: Ang4321@yahoo.com

Angela,
Much better.  No longer high-strung.  Sleeps most of the time.  Her Prozac cost $113.00—and that’s 4 only 30 days. I snooped in your medicine cabinet to see if u had any of your own but couldn’t find anything so I waved your plastic card in front of Doc and he rang up $113.  How can Prozac 4 canines cost that much?  I thought it had gone generic.
Chad

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>             Sat, Oct 6, 2006 at 6:57 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
Probably not for animals, though there’s not much difference between the men at the headquarters here and most of the other monsters I’ve known in my life—excluding you, of course.
A

Mr10in@hotmail.com              Sun, Oct 7, 2006 at 1:53 PM
To: Ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
I’ve also had to put her on Mirapex, since Beowulf insists on sleeping with me.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com >                    Thu, Oct 13, 2006 at 6:12 AM
To: big12in@yahoo.com

C,
Mirapex, what’s that? This sounds serious. Is there something you’re not telling me?
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                    Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 2:53 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
4 “restless legs syndrome.”  Beowulf sleeps like a log, but she kicks all night long, so your expensive Doc said I should try Mirapex—another $113 on your card, which seems to be this guy’s fee 4 prescription drugs.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com >                Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:12 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
All dogs kick in their sleep. They dream like everyone else and in their dreams they’re always running.  Any dog owner knows that, stupid.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                   Tu, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:01 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
I am not a dog owner.  Beowulf is yours, or have u already forgotten?  If she hadn’t been used to sleeping with you, this wouldn’t have happened.  I’m simply trying to get through my days (and nights) as always, unaccustomed as I am to sleeping with your twinkie.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 6:03 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
Are you sure you don’t have an ulterior motive?  You’ve never liked Beowulf since the moment u met her.  How can you be so jealous of a pooch, for Christ’s sake, in spite of your so-called occupation?
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>             Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:49 PM
To: ang4321@hotmail.com                       

A,
Jealous of a 3 pound Bichon Frise?  U’ve got to be kidding.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                  Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 5:43 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

Chad, Dearest,
Have YOU considered going to a shrink?
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                  Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:52 PM
To: Ang4321@yahoo.com

Angela, My Love,
No, but I contemplated sending Beowulf to a shrink—if the quack had recommended one.  Beowulf no longer runs in her sleep, which is bad enough, but she sneezes half a dozen times during the night.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                 Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 6:38 AM
To: big12in@hotmail

C,
Of course she sneezes.  Have you considered who she’s sleeping with?  Have you tried taking a bath lately?  Next thing you’ll email me that she’s also on Flonase.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                Tu, Oct 28, 2006 at 10:01 PM
To: Ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
Not Flonase.  Doc said I should give her a spoonful of Trimetic before we go to bed, which helps your chien sleep better.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                   Thu, Nov 2, 2006 at 6:12 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
But you said all she does is sleep because of the Prozac.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                Tu, Nov 6, 2006 at 3:15 PM
To: Ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
Had to take her off the Prozac once she went on the Mirapex, so we switched her to Valium.  Sleeps like a champ, even through the sneezes.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                  Thu, Nov 9, 2006 at 6:17 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
You dog, you.  If anything happens to Beowulf before I return, I’ll cut your heart out.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:04 PM
To: an4321@yahoo.com

A,
Beowulf thinks u’re dead, or have u already 4gotten that?  U might say that I’m the one keeping her alive.  I’m certainly not the one who flew the coop.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                Sun, Nov 18, 2006 at 7:03 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
I don’t care much for your menacing tone.  Here I am, protecting our country, and all you have to do is please a tiny creature with no demands. I‘m risking my life in this operation, and you’re complaining about kicking legs.  Is that fair?
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                   Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:13 AM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
Of course not but, as Milton said, “They also serve who only stand and wait.”
C.

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                   Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 6:55 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
Who is this Milton guy?  That stupid poet, or are you into men again?
A

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 4:52 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
Where are you?  What’s going on? Can’t you answer me?
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                      Fri, Dec 1, 2006 at 9:55 PM
To: ang4321@hotmail.com

A,
OK, I may be a dog-walker, but not all dog-walkers are gay.  Got that? And even though I’ve moved into your pad so I can take care of your whelp, our needs are mutual.  U’re off orchestrating the great war, so someone has to take care of your little pipsqueak.  I’m between jobs, granted, and walking mongrels to earn a little cash as I try to get myself together, but u need me to take care of your sample of a dog as much as I need u to provide me with a place to stay.  We may have had sex a few times before your departure, but u don’t own me yet.  Got that?
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                     Sun, Dec 3, 2006 at 6:14 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
Prickly, prickly.  Also, it was more than a few times—unless you don’t count the time in the Post Office and the one at Macy’s.  Now tell me truthfully, Chad, is Beowulf on Prozac or are you the one on Prozac?
A.

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                      Mon, Dec 4, 2006 at 11:23 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
OK, both of us, though as I said, your champion was switched to Valium.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                  Thu, Dec 9, 2006 at 6:18 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
Ah, so the truth is out—the $113 bill for Prozac was for you, not for Beowulf.  Right?
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                     Sat. Dec 9, 2006 at 10:57 AM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
Sort of.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                      Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 6:18 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
And who has restless leg syndrome—you or B?  Or is it restless something else syndrome?  And while I’m asking these questions, is anyone else staying in my apartment besides you—any other people or any other dog(s)?
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                  Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:01 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
Your questions reveal an astonishing lack of faith in my intentions to put YOUR interests first.  And u, dear lady, who came on to me like a bitch in heat the very first weekend after I’d taken care of your mutt--for all I know u’re servicing our frustrated generals in Kuwait—or wherever they’ve got u sequestered.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                        Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 6:01 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
None of your business, but what is your business is that I haven’t had a period in the last three months, and you’re the father of the cur that’s growing inside me.  So I may be coming back home a lot faster than you anticipated, and you need to think about what your true part in all this will be.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:08 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
If u come back anytime soon—and that includes pulling a fast one and arriving unannounced--don’t expect me to stick around.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>  Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 6:49AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

Chad, Dear,
Never fear.  I can’t just pack up and depart from my work here without a replacement, and we’re not anywhere near considering that.  But I guess you’ve made it clear that you don’t see yourself as a father.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>           Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 9:42 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
I’m about to be a father here.  Beowulf is also pregnant.  I warned u months ago about assuming that just because Beowulf is a she, and not a he, her name wouldn’t protect her from getting pregnant.  And, yes, I’ve verified Beowulf’s pregnancy with the good shaman, who has put her on Abilify ($113) and, just so u don’t have to ask me what that is, it’s 4 treating Bipolar Disorder.  Your swindler confesses that this is what Beowulf should have been on from the beginning—so everything else has been thrown out except 4 the renewal 4 Mirapex ($113).
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>          Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 7:14 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
Are you out of your mind?  If Beowulf is pregnant, then you are responsible for that catastrophe and you’d better make certain that Dr. S gives her an abortion fast—or is that the intent of all these prescriptions?  Last thing I knew, all the other dogs you walked weighed ten times Beowulf’s weight.  If you let one of those bigger dogs get to her, I’ll cut your dick off just as soon as I catch sight of you. You fucking bastard.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>            Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 9:55 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
Never fear.  The father of Beowulf’s puppy is a 3-pound Chihuahua.  Your con artist has assured me that Beowulf will have a normal delivery.  It was the only time I left them alone, when Pepe had to spend the night here since I lost the key to the Mendozas’ apartment and couldn’t take him back there.
C
PS: Merry Christmas.

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                 Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 7:55 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
That’s not what I’m questioning.  Your good judgment has already been disproved by the weeks of agony your emails have given me about Beowulf.  I’m questioning how a three-pound pregnant Bichon Frise can be bipolar.
A
PS—Merry Christmas to you, too, you prick.

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                   Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 1:58 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
No you’re not.  U’re questioning yourself—why u let me move into your apartment and take care of Beowulf.  I warned u that I might not be the most reliable person out there.  Have u forgotten how you begged me to take care of Beowulf while u are away???
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 6:49 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
My error, I agree.  But you can’t just let me down now that I’m way over here in Valhalla and can’t take care of my little pooch for another eight months.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                   Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:10 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
I thought u suggested that u might be sent home be4 your term is up, given (as u put it) your delicate state.
A

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                 Mon, Jan 1, 2007 at 12:45 PM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
You’re safe.  I had a miscarriage on Christmas, so you’re off the hook.  Fairly normal the doctor told me for a thirty-eight-year old woman pregnant for the first time. There, it’s out.  My age, and yes, my desire to get pregnant, since I’d given up all hopes about motherhood until you came along.
Happy New Year, you creep.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>                Tu, Jan 2, 2007 at 10:41 AM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
Your age I already knew.  After all, I’m staying in your apartment and u can’t conceal everything from me.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>                  Thu, Jan 4, 2007 at 6:03 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
And I’m certain you didn’t waste any time snooping around.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>              Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 9:30 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
True, and, yes, I usually prefer men.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>              Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 6:07 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

C,
I knew that.  All I wanted was a father for my baby, and I thought I had one until a couple of weeks ago.
A

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>               Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:18 AM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

A,
Sorry.  Maybe I can help u out there again.
C

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>              Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 6:04 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

Chad,
Thanks, but your idea of sex in public places has lost some of its appeal to me. We almost got caught in the grocery store, remember?  The doctors here have warned me that getting pg again is going to be complicated.  Just take care of Beowulf, will you—and get Dr. S. to stop messing around with all those drugs.  Somehow, what I would like now would be to return home to Beowulf and her puppies.  That would please me more than anything else.
Angela

<Mr10in@hotmail.com>               Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 1:42 PM
To: ang4321@yahoo.com

Dear Angela,
If there’s a male puppy, u should call him Grendel and then we could rename your Bichon Grendel’s Dam.
Chad

<Ang4321@yahoo.com>               Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 6:30 AM
To: Mr10in@hotmail.com

Dear Chad,
“We”?  What do you mean “we”?
A

Charles R. Larson is Professor of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. His books include Under African Skies, Worlds of Fiction, The Ordeal of the African Writer and Academia Nuts. He can be reached at: clarson@american.edu

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