Testing 1, 2, 3….
garden pride Just testing my ability to post photos. This is my garden (last year), by the way.
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Non-news of the day
Non-news of the day: the majority of Americans oppose reinstating the draft, by a margin of about 2.5 to 1. Surprise, surprise! The AP article also reports that “over half” of Americans would discourage a son from joining the military … Continue reading →
Cold feet about the eyes
For those of you who read this post a while back, you might be wondering how my laser eye surgery went. Well, I postponed it. I got a second opinion, and was advised there is no rush at all with … Continue reading →
Gestating change
It’s been almost exactly a month since my most recent post in the “A mind is a difficult thing to change” series. Some of you may be wondering–well, where’s the next one? It seems these things are so intense to … Continue reading →
The Cats in the Fax
I seem to be on a roll with animal stories. And no, I’m not a fanatical PETA-type person. But even the Cat in the Hat had nothing on these Cats in the Fax when it comes to making serious mischief. … Continue reading →
Dean: winning with morals
Howard Dean is hopping mad: Dean seemed yesterday to embrace his reputation for volatility, saying he is being buoyed by activists and donors. At one point, a Chicago alderman, Joseph Moore, had trouble being recognized; he joked that next time … Continue reading →
More weather complaints
I’m all talk, no action–as in “everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Since everything is so easy to look up on Google, I just discovered that that quote isn’t by “anonymous,” as I’d thought, but … Continue reading →
It depends what the meaning of “sign” is
I guess my apple is safe–at least for the moment. See this. Kerry has a strange literalism about him. He said he would sign a Form 180; apparently he did sign a Form 180. But how many of his records … Continue reading →
Jesse Larner on Moore and Bush
Clive Davis posts an interview with one Jesse Larner, an interesting fellow who wrote a book criticizing Michael Moore. What’s so interesting about that, you say? Hasn’t that been done quite a few times before? Well, not from the left, … Continue reading →
The Village Voice gets it right, and so does Amnesty
Amnesty International, the organization to which I belonged for 20 years (but no longer do), still does some good work. As some commenters here have pointed out, AI has reported on bad conditions in prisons in Castro’s Cuba–not quite a … Continue reading →
Amnesty fights back
As many have noticed, Amnesty International recently went over the top in likening the prison at Guantanamo to the Soviet Gulag. Now Roger Simon asks a question: So why did Amnesty make such an insane (word choice deliberate) accusation? That … Continue reading →
Quantifying the quake
Remember that earthquake and tsunami back in December of 2004 (or have you already forgotten)? Willisms presents some utterly astounding facts about the uniqueness of the quake that spawned the tsunami.
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