Had a despriting kind of day at work today. The kind of day when you realize that you are a middle manager in the Rebel Alliance and it's the first reel of The Empire Strikes Back.

Damn you Ronald Regan - may you burn in Hell for what you unleashed upon our nation. Yes, your military spending spree broke the Soviets and paved the way for the end ( Read more... )

I am getting ready to listen to President Barack Obama for the second time today...

I watched a video of his school speech this afternoon. And, as expected, despite all of the far-right looneys' rantings, I did not detect an iota of socialist propaganda. I did detect a lot of sound concepts and good leadership. So, it is a keen pleasure -- not ( Read more... )

Proving that she still has her neo-con chops, our beloved Governor is holding fast on her "no new taxes" policy, and is instead imploding our educational future in order to balance the budget.
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WILLIAM CIBES
Rell Would Sever Internet Links For Schools, Libraries
May 31, 2009In a move that would conclusively close the door on the Information ( Read more... )

BUSH IS GONE!
(And Dick Cheney too!)

'nuff said

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On Rt. 2 eastbound yesterday afternoon -- a gigantic white Lexus SUV piloted by an angry looking white woman, sporting a McCain / Palin bumper sticker.

Surprised?

The press release below came out from the Mayor's office the week before last, on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the D.C. gun ban (District of Columbia vs. Heller).

There is some sneaky speaking in here: language to create a false linkage as pernicious as the weasel phrase " womb to tomb". Notice how I share Washington ( Read more... )

Terrorists, every rotten one of them.

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A third of the southern wing of my network is down tonight. From the pattern of the outage notification I got from NMS it looks like another power failure in the Wethersfield Ave. feeder. This, I have been told, is an old and creaky cable. When it gets cold -- or very hot -- loads go up and the cable tends to break. This happens at least a ( Read more... )

I have had -- and exercised -- my franchise for twenty years. I have voted in every election save one. Every Presidential year, off year, primary and referendum. Except that one. That makes twenty five or thirty times that I have stepped into the voting booth and pulled that big red handle. So few experiences can be distilled to a moment, but ( Read more... )