I recently received a piece of spam that I actually read. Sometimes I feel like I really need to know what "the other side" is up in arms about, I *want* to understand if I can. This spam cloaks itself in the "vote in this poll" supposed impartiality that is so common to push-polls and the like. Knowing that they were coming in with a bias and not ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about a longer blog post about how my recent reading binge has been influencing my thinking on current events. I haven't quite gotten around to composing my thoughts so in the meantime I'll just share this quote from Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel, Red Harvest:

For forty years old Elihu Willsson ... had owned Personville, heart, ( Read more... )

In solidarity with all the American workers fighting to preserve their unions:

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I am so terribly sad about Ted Kennedy's death from brain cancer.

I have a friend who can't forgive Ted for ChappaquiddickTo me, Chappaquiddick is something that happened before I was born. Ted Kennedy, who had two brothers ASSASSINATED, developed an alcohol problem and had a tragic car accident because of it? Color me shocked... shocked, I tell ( Read more... )

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I hope to have some time for proper blogging over the weekend, but meanwhile: QUOTED FOR TRUTH




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After the recent election, I posted this:

So. Obama has challenged us. The American people cannot just vote and call it good. We need to "summon a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice...a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility ( Read more... )

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So I haven't had a lot of time to blog but I figure if I'm putting in 18 hour days I can allow myself a little blog time without feeling too guilty.

After work today I finally got started on my attic ladder project. I made the family eat leftovers (even poor Chris, who is feeling sick)and worked on the installation of the attic ladder (including ( Read more... )

Pramas recently updated his blog with some commentary on divisive politics ( Real Americans ) that pretty much exactly matches what I would have to say on the topic. I've just had no time to post recently I was just going to do a simple "Me too" and link to it but something else caught my attention just now and I am so disgusted I have to say ( Read more... )