Advice to the Lovelorn, Part II
Get a dog. And I did. I’ll be picking up this little darlin’ tomorrow or the next day, after a certain reproductive matter gets taken care of. I was sorry …
Happy Holiday
I used to have a friend who was adverse to the very idea of holidays. He ignored them with a passion, so of course, I think of him on every …
Right on Sunday
(I thought I’d already posted this, can’t find it, so will back up and get it in the collection.) Media Matters did a statistical study of the Sunday talking heads …
The blog business
Steve’s take on a MSM Wall-Street-themed take on blogs. You can count on him for a reality check. To the writer (of the NY Metro feature), blog readers are simply …
Bang, bang
There was Plame-gate. There was Abu Graib. There was Downing Street. There was Katrina. There was illegal spying. But some astute people think that the shot Dick Cheney took at …
The New China Syndrome
Businesses have been encouraged by our government for years now to go into China, and the motivation was NOT to bring them our freedoms, but to take away their money. …
1916 murder in Waco sparked anti-lynching campaign
In searching for death penalty info in Texas, I found about about the brutal attack on Jesse Washington, a black man, possibly retarded, by whites in Waco — a story …
Scary
The Galveston County Daily News A new American Bar Association poll contains a frightening number. The poll says 18 percent of Americans believe the president should be able to suspend …
Don’t call them conservatives
Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: Do Bush followers have a political ideology? What it takes to make someone a “conservative” in Bozell’s eyes is the same as what is …