Category Archives: Words

Semester #7 out of 10 is in the books as of 3AM last night, and I’m feeling free-range at the moment because of it. The list of topics I wanted to post on, but simply ended up filing away over … Continue reading →

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 →

Four games of his I’ve seen so far, and to pretend that there’s a small difference between the value of a 2007 #1 pick and a #3 pick is ridiculous. This guy has the size, hustle and talent on both … Continue reading →

If John Brown had won, I’d have figured it was good luck to be whacked in the head with a dildo several times before a competition. As the last couple episodes of ego trip’s White Rapper Show (VH1) clearly showed … Continue reading →

I want to come out and predict that Jeb Bush emerges as the candidate poised to gather up the majority of Christian conservative votes at some point in this race, and perhaps winding up with the nomination. The Romney people … Continue reading →

The US Army’s Chief of Staff is asked (2/23/07) about the importance of capturing Osama Bin Laden: “I don’t know whether we’ll find him…I don’t know that it’s all that important, frankly.” – Gen. Peter Schoomaker Dick Cheney in 1991: … Continue reading →

I don’t think it would be possible to find a couple of chickenshit cyborgs more off base in their calculations regarding the Iraq War than John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Though perhaps in their respective cases it’s more repugnant than … Continue reading →

I’m posting every Thursday on The Blue Republic from now on, so check that out. Dusty was responsible for landing the spot for me, and she posts there as well. Politics and humor mix for a great read on a … Continue reading →

Excerpt from ‘Designer Dog-Fights‘ – The New York Times Magazine 2/4/2007 – Jon Mooallem “Making purebred pugs is arduous and important business. The pug’s problem is geometrical. A century of selection for the standard’s “square and cobby” body has exaggerated … Continue reading →

Anna Nicole Smith marries this guy (or whatever they did), and in short time both she and her son are unable to manage their chemical consumption, both found dead of overdoses. For a lot of reasons, veteran FDA-approved drug heads … Continue reading →

A streetlight with no courage flickers insanity across sidewalk split all over with tufts of grass and dirt plump up and down so a bug with something to do maneuvers over one mountain then another without fear or even the … Continue reading →

Someone I consider a good friend and part-time mentor on technical matters (captain_menace) had a request for some good stories that weren’t sports related, and I’ve been thinking about it for a couple days now. Mostly about how difficult it … Continue reading →

On Martin Luther King Day, he did not disappoint his closeted cross-burning audience one bit: Grand Wizard (aka Michael Savage): But basically, if you’re talking about a day like today, Martin Luther King Junior Day, and you’re gonna understand what … Continue reading →

Hillary said that she was “in it to win it”, but I had no idea that meant something like this: Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and … Continue reading →

The holiday season was extended for my family, as the stomach flu that ravaged most of the northeast this past month happened to hit our relations near and far like something out of a Stephen King novel, pushing back the … Continue reading →

Two election workers have been convicted of rigging the recount in Cuyahoga County to avoid a more thorough review. Jacqueline Maiden and Kathleen Dreamer were both found guilty of felony negligent misconduct of an elections employee and misdemeanor failure of … Continue reading →