Earlier today I shared this quote from Plato on my Facebook Wall, not because I necessarily consider myself one of those he mentions (though, in my own way, I try) but because I know people who are, or at least fancy themselves as being one of those. Their concerns, as …
It’s true that endorsements are a dime a dozen these days. I’m neither a celebrity nor a newspaper op-ed page editor (at least not any more). No one reads this blog– hardly anyone knows it’s here despite my advertising it on my Myspace pages and in the sig lines of …
The pronouncement of a man who can use his connections in order to duck having to serve in the Texas National Guard calling any war “romantic” is (to borrow yet again from Spider Robinson) as fucking stupid as a basketball bat. The immediate response is to wonder what kind of …
I’ve been hanging out at Panera Bread quite a lot lately, in part because the aforementioned Chicken Pomodoro on Sesame Semolina Panini bread is to die for, in part because they offer free soda refills, and in part because they have free wi-fi. I find that when I am out …
One month after my last post, and with the holiday season finally behind us all, here’s a little something for the Ides of January. See how the various presidential candidates match up with you. As if they’d listen to you to begin with.
regarding Lil’ Bush… Depicting George W Bush as a petulant child is not humorous. It would be humorous if more people didn’t already get that. As it is, it’s just stating the obvious. You guys failed with That’s My Bush! a few years ago and I won’t be in the …
When I was a kid, we only had four or maybe five sources for news of any variety– the Big Three television networks, maybe PBS too (don’t recall whether they were doing news then), and the local paper (morning and afternoon edition). Now, we have the internet, and a dizzying …
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/bs_nm/halliburton_mideast_listing_dc Say, you don’t suppose Halliburton has anything to hide, do you? Anything they would really like to keep the U S Government from examining? Anything that might land them in a whole mess of hot water once The Bush and Cheney Show leave office and Congress finds it a …
Thanks to an auto-replace program they’re using at one of the internet fora I frequent, I tried, but could not, respond to Ann Coulter’s slur of John Edwards by slurring her in turn as a media whore. That she is one should be self-evident to anyone left of the great …
I figured it was a good time to start having opinions, after actively avoiding having them for 45 years, and at the same time figuring that my life could be anywhere from 50 to 99% over by now. The main thrust of this blog will be my music, the various …