I'm off to contend with the joys of shopping for groceries sans car, but since I haven't finished doing all my research for this long ongoing historical-topical post, I will simply say that well, no, it's true that this isn't the America I was born in, primarily because I wasn't born on this continent, and I wasn't yet born in 1968, but - well, ( Read more... )

While I deal with the insomnia caused by having come home and crashed in sheer physical pain and exhaustion at 8 o' clock and mentally fortify myself against the hour when I get to go out again and traverse three miles of slush in the falling sleet for the privilege of working 9 hours for sub-living wages, I might as well try to knock down a couple ( Read more... )

Kevin Church contextualizes Rudy Giuliani's remarks.

(No, Nothing New isn't turning into Eschaton, I'm just plotzing w/RL stress and too much stuff right now. Intelligent commentary, or at least lengthy, will return in a bit.)