I finally got new glasses today. I’ve needed them for a long time, but couldn’t afford to get them. It got to the point of emergency, as I was getting headaches added to the annoyance of not being able to see much of anything close up.
But I got progressive bifocal lenses, and I’m now thinking I made a big… Read the rest
Texas is raising the speed limit to 80 mph on some roads because that’s what 85% of drivers are going anyway.
Many Texans are all over this immigration debate, outraged that folks from countries south of us are coming into the US without papers, or “illegally.”
So, I suggest that instead of creating yet more fuel inefficiency (among other… Read the rest
TomDispatch presents a fascinating, troubling and infuriating overview of the Intelligence Community (IC) in the US.
[... T]he real story of American intelligence is simply growth and bureaucratic infighting. The Bush administration, supposedly made up of “conservatives” who loath (and once endlessly railed against) “big government,” have ensured that, like the Pentagon, the IC, already an entangled monstrosity when
