"I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials. I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things, like the men and women serving our country in Iraq, Afghanistan and other ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday Rob.  I bet you didn't take the day off, but you should have ( Read more... )

"In another development, members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., announced plans Tuesday to demonstrate at the funerals of the wreck victims ( Read more... )

Tonight I finished Spike Lee's documentary When The Levees Broke. I forgive Spike Lee for suing SpikeTV and whatever dumb stuff he did in the past. This is an excellent piece of work that examines what happened from every angle. The failures of the local, state, and federal governments and the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/06/dobbs.june7/index.html

I could not possibly have stated this better myself.

My next post was going to be about the wedding, but I heard something this morning that pissed me off, so here we go.

The woman reading the news on WLRH this morning kept referring to National Guard troops as "Citizen Soldiers."  As opposed to what?  A lot of media attention has been devoted to the National Guard, to the extent that it seems like ( Read more... )

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In America, you are free to speak.  Assuming, of course, that you're speaking in support of the Bush Administration.  If you have a different view, well, we'll have to ask you to leaveOur articulate, infallible, Hand of God informed us that we're addicted to oil.  Isn't that like having your heroin dealer tell you that you need to eat more?  I ( Read more... )

There are entire communities on LJ where people post pictures of themselves in the hopes that the beautiful people will say that they're beautiful too.  It's not like hotornot where you rate someone on a 10 point scale.  In these communities, people get to make comments.  Mean, angry, hurtful comments.  It's bad enough that there are people so ( Read more... )