Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down ( Read more... )

Today I got a political email about our departing U.S. Attorney General, who, in the writer's words, "carried on the sorry tradition of his predecessors by aiding and abetting the Executive Branch in skirting and, more often than not, flouting the law altogether, justifying all manner of civil liberties and human rights violations and trampling the ( Read more... )

As promised, here are the answers to the AMA I posted earlier in the month. (You can ask more in the comments, if you feel so inclined.)

Tell the truth: Jekyll is genetically engineered to live to 50, isn't he? How much did you pay the djinn for that?Jeckyll P. Kitty, our house-tiger, just turned 17 and he has acted like a kitten-for-life up to ( Read more... )

Thoughts on the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination ( Read more... )

Today will be noted in history as when the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, removing a federal obstacle to gay marriage in America. Many of my Facebook friends are gay and/or progressive and so there were a lot of positive and celebratory posts there. But on the other hand, I do work in a newsroom, and conservative people and ( Read more... )

I watch with a mix of puzzled amusement and amused puzzlement the stories of how in the days since the election -- President Obama's re-election -- that petitions have popped up from practically every state asking to secede from the Union ( Read more... )

Last Friday in the Star, this opinion piece got me so riled up I immediately wrote up a response. It hasn't been picked up for a Letter to the Editor, and it just occurred to me to post it as a comment to the online version (duh).

Anyway, here's what I wrote:

The Delroy Murdock column in Friday’s Star, “Baffling results from voters,” was itself a ( Read more... )

At long last, another election season is finally near its end, as the voting is done and counted tomorrow ( Read more... )

( My feelings on guns )

Earlier this month, I had my annual performance review at work. Basically it boiled down to, "do what you've been doing -- but do more of it." (Mostly positive, overall ( Read more... )