Monthly Archives: March 2007

As useful as a site of this kind can possibly be, Speaker Pelosi’s blog ‘The Gavel‘ (which I have linked to under ‘Politics’) utilizes YouTube a great deal by posting clips of CSPAN in a very short amount of time, … Continue reading →

Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) wrote this essay for Harpers Magazine, and below the fold you will find the complete text, along with the source. Highlighted below is one paragraph that I especially liked, but the entire piece is a great read, … Continue reading →

‘How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits‘ – by Joshua Kors – Sample: They say the military is purposely misdiagnosing soldiers like Town and that it’s doing so for one reason: to cheat them out of a lifetime of disability and … Continue reading →

The story about Georgia designating April for ‘Confederacy History and Heritage Month’ must have really got under my skin, because I’ve been jousting over at Control Congress exclusively these past few days, with a number of posts and comments that … Continue reading →

There was a hearing today on this – no video posted on CSPAN yet, but the House site has something up here. The number of auditors on staff to handle the highest wage bracket has been cut, with a news-worthy … Continue reading →

Hope I didn’t catch you dozing on me…the demands of life in general aren’t the kind of devil grease splatters one can simply pour water over or ignore, so the ‘blog’ takes a backseat to the slumber-sucking reality of this … Continue reading →

Is John Rocker considering a run for office in Georgia? After being quoted years ago saying, “I’m not a very big fan of foreigners…how the hell did they get into this country(?)”, his baseball career took a bad turn. Clearly … Continue reading →

I’ve never been impressed by Reid, and him being the senate majority leader at this stage has been annoying me for some time now. Dick Durbin is a better fit for that role, but I’d still rather see someone like … Continue reading →

I’d never heard of this woman until today. I think someone should check into this. Perhaps someone like Henry Waxman or Patrick Leahy even. The short version is that this woman speaks several languages, and was working for the FBI … Continue reading →

The amount of time it takes to read up on everything that’s going on is prohibitive when it comes to relating what I think about all of it here. First is the task of taking it all in and having … Continue reading →

From the same issue of the Washington Post, you’ll find that our President is on top of his game.  It feels like 2005 all over again:   Progress in the ‘war on terror’ can be explained in many different ways, … Continue reading →

   Hey – we were embarrased about all the foreign people our government arbitrarily detains and kicks around, but to think that even powerful Americans can get wraped up over nothing by that same government…in fact, was there even a … Continue reading →

What fun is being able to say you’re in charge of something important if you can’t obstruct a little justice now and then?

Here are three torrents currently active on trackers today that I highly recommend. My preferred BT client is Azureus, but it was eating up too much of my processing speed and memory, so although it yields lower upload speeds on … Continue reading →

Gorilla’s Guides is a great blog from within Iraq that I lurk around on regularly, and this postcard came from there. The point of view you’ll find here is very “man on the street”, and being an American, what that … Continue reading →