After a while, it is necessary to reflect on why one keeps batting out these missives, especially since so few seem to care. Honestly, if a couple dozen people stop by here, then it’s a busy day. While it hasn’t hurt my career at all, it surely hasn’t helped it, either. So [...]
Marvel Comics used to publish a comic called “What if…” that I loved. The basic premise was that they took a well-known Marvel story line and twisted it in some manner. Or they took a hero from one part/time of their fantasy multiverse and paired them with someone from another part/time. So [...]
My wife wants you to see this video:
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No, not that one. George Orwell.
I’ll let him have the microphone:
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not [...]
I have a longer response to Rabbi Michael Lerner’s Op-Ed. The meat of the matter:
We have to understand that America, as a whole, remains more conservative than Progressive. Yes, Barack Obama was elected President, in large part, because he promised to fix our healthcare system and right the economic injustices of our current economy. [...]
Your result for The Perception Personality Image Test…
NBPC – The Daydreamer
Nature, Background, Big Picture, and Color
You perceive the world with particular attention to nature. You focus on the hidden treasures of life (the background) and how that fits [...]
I’ve received some reports of people being unable to leave comments. So I’ve installed the Disqus comment system. That means you are going to have to register with Disqus to leave a comment, but once you’ve done that, I hope it will move along smoothly.
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I don’t generally have a problem with conservatives. It’s when they start talking about public policy that I have a problem. Like this example:
Obama laughs off the charge of socialist behavior — and to be fair, socialism isn’t the precise term to affix to his ideas. It’s more like Robin Hood economics. On [...]
Wired says I’m dead. I just checked my pulse, though, and I seem to be okay.
Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing [...]
From my Twitter homepage, I’m going jumping around to see what I can see. Here goes:
Jump 1: Sistertalk was the last tweet – she’s getting ready to live-blog the debate (brave girl – I can’t stand to watch). Earlier, she found a desire to tattoo health warnings on gay people and the Wisconsin [...]
