I've been watching a lot of American political news lately where the left-wing commentators are characterizing the right-wing commentators as "The Echo Chamber", the implication being that they are all just talking to themselves and repeating the same, worn out talking points, over and over ( Read more... )

The Associated Press has a channel on YouTube to which I am subscribed. One of yesterday's brief items was that Matt Dillon had gotten a speeding ticket ( Read more... )

At last, someone makes some sense on this whole Proposition 8 business.

In Massachusetts an eight year old boy was firing an Uzi submachine gun at a gun fair, under adult supervision, when he lost control of the gun, took a bullet to the head and died ( Read more... )

Some people follow ambulances and fire engines to the scene of disaster, but my favourite blood sport is watching online confrontations between Intelligent Designers (Creationists) and those who believe in natural selection and the theory of common descent ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I watched the YouTube/CNN Democratic presidential "debates" where a selected set of questions which had been posted to YouTube were played for the Democratic presidential candidates who were then asked to respond. It's stretching the term beyond recognition to call this format any kind of debate but it was an interesting excercise ( Read more... )

The other night I was getting ready to head out to the grocery store to pick up some victuals and asked the paramour if there was anything zie needed. Since zie was engrossed in a video at the time which was just reaching an emotional high-point, zir response to my interruption was curt and unfriendly ( Read more... )

I have never run into (figuratively, that is) so many dogs as I have since moving here to the semi-boonies. During my time here I have come to a few conclusions about dog owners. Now I'll freely admit that they certainly don't apply to all dog owners. They may not apply much to dog owners in cities. Hell, they may only apply to dog owners living ( Read more... )

I seem to be a bit weepy tonight. Not weepy-sad but weepy-happy. Shadow was sitting on my desk, staring adoringly at me. I began contemplating what a terrific cat she's been and started to tear up. Go figure.

The other thing that almost brought me to tears tonight was discovering kiva.org. In money circles making tiny loans to individual ( Read more... )

Can't ... stop ... self ... from doing ... meme!

I admit that I'm easy prey for LJ fads, especially those involving quizzes or polls, so naturally I have to do the alternate career one. Ripped off from pleonastic who in turn ripped it off from someone else and god only knows how far that chain goes back.

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