Posted by on 24 Jun 2006 by
Rena in
war
Larry Beinhart says we should just “Give George Bush His War”
George Bush wants the war. He wants it to be his issue. Yes. Yes, please, let him have it. Let it be all his. But it has to be all his. I heard Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on the radio and he said that it was time
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Posted by on 24 Jun 2006 by
Rena in
eating
Dmoz is just the greatest thing on the web; if you like Wikipedia, you will love the Open Directory Project!
Now it has expanded and includes Chef Moz, a open-directory dining guide. Very cool.
But, again, the Waco area is sorely in need of some content. McGregor blogger Nate needs to add a review of Texas Coffee and Tea,… Read the rest
Posted by on 24 Jun 2006 by
Rena in
eating,
outrages
Awesome rant from a professional restaurant server, giving the commandments of eating out:
best of craigslist : RANT: The Dining Public. Rules of the Road.
Hattip to First Draft.
Posted by on 24 Jun 2006 by
Rena in
Uncategorized
From the Trib:
Scnes from movie about ’70s drug smuggling operation to be shot in McGregor
This is kinda cool: A town a few miles from Crawford will be in a movie starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duval. The story is about the biggest marijuana smuggling operation in US history. One of the pilots, who was unaware of what… Read the rest
Brent Budowsky predicts the outcome of the elections this year. He thinks America will win.
The Washington insiders don’t get it, but its really simple, this election is not about ten point plans, or public relations, or competing sets of consultants dishing baloney and calling it leadership. This election, which I believe will be an epic moment that will
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Posted by on 03 Jun 2006 by
Rena in
the great divide,
war
In many campaigns across this country this year, you hear of candidates running as fast as they can from the disaster in Iraq and the president who got us into it. But not in Bush Country.
Van Taylor, a Iraq War vet who wants to unseat Democrat Chet Edwards, must not have got the memo, or doesn’t think the folks… Read the rest
Posted by on 03 Jun 2006 by
Rena in
Guides and teachers,
outrages
Another beautiful essay entitled “Pass the Bread” from Bill Moyers, in which he continues to try to explain America to himself, and to us.
I love this quote from it:
All of us have to choose sides on this journey. But the question is not so much who we are going to fight against as it is which side
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Posted by on 03 Jun 2006 by
Rena in
outrages
An evil cast of characters star in both scandals, and Greg Grandin capsulizes the whole ugly mess.
Highly recommended.
Posted by on 01 Jun 2006 by
Rena in
Geekery
OpenGuides: the guides made by you.
Open source software to create community guides/portals. Cool.