Sorry I was so obscure earlier on what’s going on: here’s a less censored version.

Susan’s Mom retired several years ago, and moved in with us to help with Meredith (and so on), and - well, you couldn’t ask for a nicer mother-in-law.  Very nice, sweet-tempered (it’s a real shock for the grandkids when she loses her cool) and kind.

Since late April ( Read more... )

Meredith is going off to Nationals at the end of the week with her coach and his family, and will be there through the weekend after.  I ***may*** go with Susan for weekend #2, but it’s not certain.

I cannot go into it now, and asking why right now will be futile because I can’t say what’s up, but Something has come up that is totally eating our ( Read more... )

WIRED magazine on why Special Forces had to land in person and not nail with a unmanned drone aircraft or just bomb the site from a distance.  The site is surrounded by all sorts of high-level Pakistani government / military sites, including their military academy, and drones or sloppy bombing could end up with worse problems than going in with a ( Read more... )

Apparently, anyone who has ever commented at one of the Gawker sites has had their user name, email and password hacked, and the complete set of all of that has been openly posted and redistributed on the internet; all of a sudden,  various accounts of mine started going *no way* when I tried to log in earlier.  After all of the major frustration ( Read more... )

As some of you may have sussed out, since November of 2007, I’ve been working 99% of the time out of my basement office…with a huge long line of doctor’s excuses, bases on either my non-healing foot wound, or my weak response to infections casing raging problems on and off.  The office finally said that they couldn’t do this as a temporary thing ( Read more... )

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…from Think Progress.   Give it a look for a summary of why it’s major bad news, if you didn’t know that already…unless you think you’re Jack Bauer or something.

As Jesse Ventura said on The View:

“If waterboarding is OK, why don’t we let our police do it to suspects so they can learn what they know?” he asked. “If waterboarding is OK, why didn’t ( Read more... )

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Gitmo: People reviewing the cases of prisoners are finding out that there’s really no solid files as such on anyone,  and that a lot of material is suspect or worthless - and scattered, disorganized and fifth-hand.   The realization is coming through that people were supposed to get confessions and information first and worry about anything else ( Read more... )

..of the Bush administration, a casualty of the war on terror, troubled and victimized soul that he is.