tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68442182011-11-27T17:35:53.682-06:00A repository for social and political notions.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.comBlogger971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-626764643890088402009-05-07T00:12:00.003-05:002009-05-07T10:06:34.139-05:00

NPR likes to tout their "drive way stories," the ones where you sit in your driveway long after you've turned off the engine so that you can hear the end of a particularly interesting, engrossing, endearing, inspiring, or (your adjective here) story. There is a cousin to this kind of story--the drive-your-car-off-the-road story, where you become so dumbfounded, ballistically angry, depressed, or

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-74355381785263464642009-04-23T14:51:00.001-05:002009-04-23T14:52:31.560-05:00

Another year plus has gone by and all I've done is put up yet another promise to post.Here it is. Let's see if I do it.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-38436985977134409892008-01-09T23:22:00.000-06:002008-01-09T23:27:36.129-06:00

This year's resolution is to actually post on this blog this year.Don't know why I took the year off here. I blogged a plenty at my birder blog, BirdbrainsofAustin. Go check that one out.Not like there wasn't plenty to write about, but oh well, this is another year.Time to post aplenty!

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-29360738014011635042007-02-26T12:08:00.000-06:002007-02-26T12:12:10.245-06:00

Check out Sam Harris and his argument for a return to rationality.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1163632640201374562006-11-15T16:55:00.000-06:002006-11-15T17:17:20.263-06:00

Has it? I don't know. The fact that enough people rejected the current political trend and punished the intransigence of the Republican leadership is a good thing. It shows that we're still awake here and, while slow to react, eventually will.But already the political discourse is changing. Democrats have a real opportunity to show that they can be sane, rational and fair, which is what the

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1162496096857259432006-11-02T13:13:00.000-06:002006-11-02T13:34:56.893-06:00

Got so busy at work that I missed all of October here at the ol' blog. Shame. Thought I'd check back in with a link to Keith Olbermann's latest attack on Bush and his ilk. It's a nice counter punch to the attack on Kerry's comments on getting stuck in Iraq in you don't get enough education. Of course, the right wing distortion machine claimed Kerry meant only ignoramuses join the military,

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1159545012432994112006-09-29T10:22:00.001-05:002006-09-29T10:54:04.266-05:00

The Senate passed the President's detention and torture bill. 34 brave Senators (32 Dems, Jeffords (I) and Chaffee (R), voted against this fear-based betrayal of our Constitution. Olympia Snow didn't vote. All the other Republicans voted yes along with 12 shameful, cowardly Democrats, some voting to immunize themselves against Republican attacks in the next 6 weeks (Menendez, Nelson, Nelson,

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1159543343300915022006-09-29T10:22:00.000-05:002006-09-29T10:58:12.776-05:00

Keith Olbermann puts the lie to Bush administration claims that they couldn't have done more to stop 9/11. They examine the evidence in this report. Catches quite a few of the administration officials in bold faced lies. Enjoy.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1159476770216258162006-09-28T15:45:00.000-05:002006-09-28T15:52:52.280-05:00

Never mind that we live in a time when right wing wackos make terroristic threats against commentators for, uh, making comments, this story is a sad commentary on the state of the press in this country. The NY Post, a Rupert Murdoch flagship paper, did a hatchet job on Keith Olbermann when Keith reported to police that he had received a mailed threat with white powder in it. The mocking story

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1159475598719377202006-09-28T15:29:00.000-05:002006-09-28T15:33:18.736-05:00

Will Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate poised to let the CIA-torture (I mean interrogation) bill pass without a fight, I sent this email to mister Reid:No topic for Iraq or Terrorism? Odd. (I had to select a topic. Homeland Security was the closest I could find.)Dear Senate staffer (as I'm sure the Senator will never hear of this message much less see it):As pointless as the gesture may

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1159380005183931752006-09-27T12:43:00.000-05:002006-09-27T13:00:05.250-05:00

By now you've most likely heard about the Chris Wallace interview with Bill Clinton on Fox News Sunday. The cowardly Wallace said email from his viewers compelled him to ask why Clinton didn't do more to shut down Osama, again forwarding the proposition or at least implication that 9/11 was Clinton's fault. That's it, hide behind your viewers, Chris.Bill then launched into a spirited and

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1158688613089204022006-09-19T12:52:00.000-05:002006-09-19T12:56:53.103-05:00

Mr. Keith Olbermann is laying it on the President, again. The administration (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld) have said that dissent is helping the terrorists, and that certain "thoughts" are unacceptable. Not actions. Thoughts and expressions of those thoughts. Keith has a response.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1158003246385849162006-09-11T14:32:00.000-05:002006-09-11T14:34:06.396-05:00

Only 13 million watched that anti-Clinton screed on ABC last night.See the story here.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1157993985511590692006-09-11T11:56:00.000-05:002006-09-11T11:59:45.530-05:00

Here's a great link to an NPR prgramn that had the Popular Mechanics editor debunking all the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11, in case the sheer improbability and contradictions inherent in them aren't enough.Enjoy

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1157817305551511782006-09-09T09:41:00.000-05:002006-09-09T11:11:37.466-05:00

No doubt by now you've heard of the ABC miniseries called The Path to 9/11, I was watching a football game last Saturday on ABC when I saw an ad for it. It claimed to be based on the 9/11 commission report. I thought that would be interesting viewing. But it turns out that it was written by right wingnut Cyrus Noratesh and based not on the commission report, which was compiled by folks

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1157128250801667842006-09-01T11:28:00.000-05:002006-09-01T11:30:50.820-05:00

Interesting debate on Al Jazeera about why the Muslims are having problems. Go here

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1157124418932580472006-09-01T10:22:00.000-05:002006-09-01T10:45:20.880-05:00

The admin is laying on the Iraq rhetoric thick. Don Rumsfeld said those who criticize the war are morally or intellectually confused. I would have laid into that nonsense here has Keith Olbermann not done so so articulately on Countdown on MSNBC. Here's the link to the transcript on his blog, but I highly recommend you watch the video, whose link is on the right side of the blog page. Since

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1157055648125323332006-08-31T15:14:00.000-05:002006-08-31T15:20:48.186-05:00

My friend Lana sent me this. Don't know who Inland is. A blogger I suppose. But I thought it interesting especially since folks have sent me the dry-drunk and brain-disease theories before. Here's a new take on why Bush sounds like an idiot most of the time. Take it for what it's worth."Why Bush Can't Talk: It's not the drugs, and it's not senility. by Inland Aug 24, 2006 Bush's press

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1156999082770201682006-08-30T23:33:00.000-05:002006-08-30T23:38:02.783-05:00

Ted Stevens, that conservative believer in smaller government, also known as the king of pork has been caught with his pants down. Check this out, from Howard Dean:"Hundreds of billions of tax dollars go to private contractors every year -- a lot of it needless pork barrel spending. There's a bill to create a public database of every federal contract, but a Senator who famously fought for a "

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1156445499102984702006-08-24T13:13:00.000-05:002006-08-25T18:59:46.200-05:00

This post harkens back to and is related in spirit to the Sunday post about the tyranny of moral certainty. Today it was announced that astronomers voted to declare the Sun has 8 planets, an untold number of dwarf planets and an other category, which includes asteroids and comets. Pluto, the object formerly known as a planet, is now a dwarf planet (perhaps it prefers to be called "little planet

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1156280846780563822006-08-22T15:57:00.000-05:002006-08-22T16:07:26.796-05:00

Army Lt. Ehren Watada refused to deploy to Iraq with his Striker brigade recently, because, he told his superiors, the war is illegal and he had a duty to refuse to serve. He offered to go to Afghanistan, but was refused the compromise. Why? The Army argues that soldiers don't get to make that determination and if they did, Army discipline would unravel. He is going through an Article 32

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1156098192860053302006-08-20T12:07:00.000-05:002006-08-20T13:38:09.063-05:00

It is distressing to me that I even have to write this.The title of this post is self evident. Dogmatic, ideological loyalty must lead to tyranny. Either you are an adherent or an apostate. And the apostate inevitably becomes seen as evil or in league with it.And yet many Americans have been seduced by the siren song of "moral certainty," as the neo-cons have labeled it. Good vs. Evil. We are

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1155829278737635552006-08-17T10:18:00.000-05:002006-08-17T10:41:18.826-05:00

Well, the Austin Illiterate Spaceman probably won't print my letter to the editor because it prefers to give space to regurgitated, uninformed drivel like the letters I responded to. At least it's published here, where hundreds, nay, thousands, will never see it.More good news from Iraq that you won't hear on the mainstream media. The sectarian violence that has wracked that poor country since

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1155677929277179122006-08-15T16:32:00.000-05:002006-08-15T16:38:49.303-05:00

Here is the text of my letter to the Statesman in response to letters decrying Lieberman's defeat, dissent being unpatriotic, and Cheney claiming Connecticut's decision helped Al Quaeda:Patriotism is DissentRe: Kevin Birdsell's and Rick Hill's letters to the editor, Tuesday, August 15, I thought Dick Cheney's comments about Ned Lamont's defeat of Joe Lieberman ties them together nicely. To

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1155150587096243262006-08-09T14:08:00.000-05:002006-08-09T14:09:47.156-05:00

They lie! They lie!Check it out!

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1155144284922551022006-08-09T11:42:00.000-05:002006-08-09T12:24:45.033-05:00

Didn't take long for Republican spin (propaganda) machine to get into gear to explain to the mainstream media what the Lieberman primary loss means. The Dems are soft on defense, isolationist, McGovern-like. Ken "Larry Bud" Mehlman and Senate Majority Leader wannabe Mitch McConnell yapped up as soon as it was clear Lonely Joe lost and will now run in a new party with exactly one candidate-him (

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1154728966702836302006-08-04T16:48:00.000-05:002006-08-04T17:12:01.320-05:00

NY Times Conservative Columnist David Brooks, who sometimes makes a lot of sense, wrote a real head scratcher the other day. He called the insurgent campaign of Ned Lamont to unseat Joe Lieberman a "liberal inquisition." Huh? He whines that liberals in the Democratic party are pillorying Lieberman for one issue alone-the Iraq war-and abandoning an otherwise good democrat. Hmmm. Folks in an

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1154728084848539182006-08-04T16:46:00.000-05:002006-08-04T16:48:04.863-05:00

But it's fun!

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1154643599600835862006-08-03T15:59:00.000-05:002006-08-03T17:19:59.686-05:00

Yep. Haven't been prolific, have I?Oh well. After all nothing is happening. Mideast is quiet. Democracy and calm are the rule in Iraq. We are one big happy family at home as rationality and common sense rule over fear and superstition. What do I have to write about?

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1152206894702946072006-07-06T12:15:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:28:14.726-05:00

It was reported yesterday that Enron Cheat-in-Chief, Ken Lay died of a massive coronary in Colorado while on vacation. How convenient. The 64-year old, who faced spending the rest of his life in prison, "died" while on "vacation" in or near Aspen. Oh, come on. Any good conspiracy theorist will tell you he obviously faked his death while in a small community where his family could buy off the

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1152206128781279352006-07-06T12:01:00.000-05:002006-08-17T10:44:32.860-05:00

Salon's War Room sez Iraq is in worse shape than the media (which is biased, doncha know) is telling us. This according to Newsweek reporter, Rod Norland. See the whole story here. The Whitehouse has done a good job of cowing the media and the military is now reviewing stories of reporters that want to embed to weed out those it thinks have been critical, he says. They ask reporters, what

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1152205222804081562006-07-06T11:52:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:00:22.903-05:00

Ann's new book is full of unattributed material from other sources, claims the New York Post, that liberal bastion of Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp. See today's War Room on Salon for the full story. Her lame response in her syndicated column was the Post is harassing her (without mentioning the plagiarism charges) and saying it has sunk to "tabloid status." War Room contributor Tim Grieve gently

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1151438375287781662006-06-27T14:50:00.000-05:002006-06-27T15:02:51.636-05:00

Though corporate hacks are trying the "big noise" theory in attacking Al Gore and his presentation on global warming portrayed in the movie "An Inconvenient Truth," the press is doing a good job of cutting through the haze and treating the movie fairly. The AP contacted 100 climitologists considered the tops in the field (including those critical of Gore) and asked their opinion of the facts in

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1151084339954394622006-06-23T12:19:00.000-05:002006-06-23T12:42:00.783-05:00

The pathetic grasping of the Republican congressional leadership continues. Rick Santorum, the soon to be defeated Senator from Pennsylvania and Peter Hoekstra, the chairman of the House Intelligence committee urged National Intelligence Director John Negroponte to release a report that 500 weapons containing Sarin or mustard gas had been found in Iraq so that they could claim WMD had been found

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1150994842127094222006-06-22T11:40:00.000-05:002006-06-22T11:50:59.500-05:00

I found this very interesting item on the War Room at Salon.com. Since the regular media isn't doing it, a group of modern-day muckrakers (the Sunlight Foundation) is checking the financial disclosure statements of lawmakers and finding interesting "co-incidences." Dennis Hastert and a few Rep. California reps bought rural land in the middle of nowhere, then pushed earmarks to build roads

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1150989675551912962006-06-22T10:16:00.000-05:002006-06-22T10:21:15.563-05:00

Fun little quiz on this site. Fourteen quotes about liberals on it and you have to decide if Adolph Hitler or Ann Coulter was the originator. I got 11 of 14. (And in looking back, I should have gotten two more. Oh well.) I hesitate to use the "F" word for Ann and the rest of the hysterical right-wing mob of flappin' gobs, but if the quote fits....

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1150912643657382142006-06-21T12:40:00.000-05:002006-06-22T10:23:27.526-05:00

An Inconvenient Truth has once again brought the naysayers out of their hidey holes and in large and loud numbers. You may have read some of the op-eds or heard some of the Oil-Comapany sponsored ads. They do a pretty good job of confusing the issue, which is precisely what they want to do. They want you to believe that climatologists have not reached concensus on the issue (which they have)

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1149273643720058532006-06-02T13:38:00.000-05:002006-06-02T13:40:43.733-05:00

The truth, once covered over by the US Marines, is slowly dribbling out about the Massacre in Haditha in November 2005. See this British media report. Lies. Lies. More lies. We couldn't give enemies better ammunition.Sigh.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1149184617928613832006-06-01T12:48:00.000-05:002006-06-01T12:59:13.080-05:00

Sorry Charlie. Quinnipac University poll of American humans said Bill Clinton was both the 2nd best prez since 1945 and the 3rd worst. See the Boston globe story here. Bill was just 3 points behind the sainted Actor/Prez Ronald Reagan as best Prez.Bill was one point behind Nixon at 16 percent and was therefore third worst. The worst at 34 percent? The current occupant. See. It's not just

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1149183658333136522006-06-01T12:38:00.000-05:002006-06-01T12:42:14.473-05:00

Check out this commencement address by Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten. As a former denizen of the fourth estate, I approve.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1148398314028553212006-05-23T10:31:00.000-05:002006-05-23T10:31:54.063-05:00

As the news of republican-lobbyist-consultant pay for play sleaze continues to ooze from DC, the completely non-partisan FBI ;-)has done something, never, ever done in the past. It's raided a Congressman's office. More bad news for a Republican? No! This was on a black dem. Congressman from La., William Jefferson. How interesting that with all the Delays, Cunninghams, Neys, Burns and others

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1148327867618992362006-05-22T14:48:00.000-05:002006-05-22T15:36:19.320-05:00

I was hoping to stop with all the "outrage" posts and actually compose a modest proposal, but life intervened this weekend and I didn't get to it. But here's a plug for an very interesting film about global warming, starring Al Gore, the former next President of the United States. (He's the guy most of you voted for, but was passed over by the Supreme Court in favor of King George IV.)The movie

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1148054010703259802006-05-19T10:43:00.000-05:002006-05-19T10:53:30.716-05:00

I'm pasting a bit from an email I got from a Democratic agitation group:"Alphonso Jackson, the Republican Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told a story recently during a talk he gave in Dallas. Here's what he said, according to the Dallas Business Journal:Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor."He had made every

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1147811555930592492006-05-16T15:21:00.000-05:002006-05-16T15:35:00.326-05:00

When you complain about the lack of oversight of NSA spying, the right-wing rejoinder is better they "gather our phone number than our remains." This can only mean that without these programs, an attack will happen. Never mind that idea is not supported by anything but fantasy, the larger idea is that we cannot both be free AND safe. This is just as ludicrous. But I don't hear Tim Russert or

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1147731190547300442006-05-15T16:50:00.000-05:002006-05-15T17:15:03.796-05:00

The NSA is conducting warrantless surveillance of calls coming from or going to suspected terrorists abroad. We are told nothing unlawful is going on. The NSA is collecting a massive database of every phone call ever made to look for "patterns" that might alert them to terrorist activities. This too we are told is lawful. These proclamations give me no comfort because the people making them

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1147365389592223032006-05-11T11:09:00.000-05:002006-05-15T13:41:42.006-05:00

You may have heard that W has never vetoed a bill. Thanks to the reporting of Charlie Savage, political affairs report for the Boston Globe, we now know why. Go here to hear Terry Gross' interview with him. Or follow the link to original story.http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=9-May-06Savage says what he does instead is issue "signing statements," technical legal

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1147121419995924972006-05-08T15:49:00.000-05:002006-05-08T15:50:20.006-05:00

MTP sent me a reply to my email:Dear Mr. Chamberlain,Thank you for your email and your interest in "Meet the Press."We are sorry you did not enjoy our program.You might be interested in knowing that we had Mr. Colbert booked on "Meet the Press" last weekend but he canceled his appearance.Most sincerely,The Meet the Press staff

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1147104755669023142006-05-08T11:11:00.000-05:002006-05-08T11:12:35.680-05:00

I made the mistake of turning Meet the Press on Sunday. Of course, it spawned a letter."I was enjoying the exchange between Dan Balz and Todd Purdum on the May 7th show, when, inexplicably you bring in a Bush impersonator and give him an extraordinarily long time to promote his corporate event speaking business. The real news from the corespondents dinner was Stephen Colbert, but instead you

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1146850106800105332006-05-05T12:16:00.000-05:002006-05-05T12:33:18.830-05:00

Curiously, the MSM seems to have failed to report on Stephen Colbert's slash and burn speech against the administration and the press.Web agitators are demanding they address it. If you agree. Go here to sign the petition:http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=20751&afccode=n49lk2See the new and improved transcript of the tirade here:http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1146776033723888292006-05-04T15:45:00.000-05:002006-05-05T12:44:28.470-05:00

Interesting interview with National Guard Lt. Paul Rieckhoff whose critical book, "Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington," has just come out. Here's the link to the show:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5382507Proud soldier, but harsh critic.Two things particularly struck me.He said the "contractors" hurt moral and the mission. They (

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1146688163259591822006-05-03T15:21:00.000-05:002006-05-03T15:30:43.866-05:00

I hadn't seen it until today. Stephen Colbert was merciless at Saturday's White House Correspondent's Dinner. He savaged both Bush and his cronies as well as the press corps with biting sarcasm and cutting irony. Laura Bush wouldn't even shake his hand, probably because she's smart enough to know how badly he had ripped her man.Of course, he ripped the press corps too for being meek, mild and

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1145999741552315102006-04-25T16:12:00.000-05:002006-04-27T12:51:32.940-05:00

I saw a bumper sticker aping the Bush W-04 sticker with the letters "tf?" added in smaller but same colored font under the W. I laughed out loud.And being a talentless, unimaginative lout, I thought of some others along the same lines:

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1145647733675068232006-04-21T14:26:00.000-05:002006-04-21T14:28:53.696-05:00

I liked this so much, I stole it. Enjoy!Forrest Gump's Evil TwinBy Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted April 21, 2006.How extraordinary. Something is happening here that has never happened in America's history. A consensus is sweeping the nation. Not that the war in Iraq is wrong, or that oil companies are screwing us blue, or that the climate is going to hell, or that good-paying jobs are being

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1145386387915181472006-04-18T13:11:00.000-05:002006-04-18T13:55:12.193-05:00

According to Seymour Hersh's article in the New Yorker this month, administration officials consider Iran's President the equivalent of Adolph Hitler in 1935 and have moved beyond contingency planning for military strikes on Iran to operational planning, which is more detailed and serious. Also disclosed, one of the contingencies planned for was using tactical nukes to penetrate and destroy

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1145309584059997682006-04-17T16:20:00.000-05:002006-04-18T13:56:39.993-05:00

The interview on Fresh Air today touched a nerve. The guest was a ex-Washington Post Reporter name Early who's book, Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental health Madness, is just out. It is his account of his harrowing experience trying to get help for his psychotic son's illness when doctor's hospitals and insurance company's wouldn't because of the "imminent threat" test for

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1144857910892190882006-04-12T10:52:00.000-05:002006-04-12T11:06:14.203-05:00

Remember those Iraqi helium trucks Bush and the Pentagon tried to tell us were mobile bio-weapon labs that noted liar Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress told us Saddam had? Turns out Bush and the Pentagon wasn't just mistaken when they told us that. Newly declassified documents indicate that they knew what the trucks were even while telling us what they weren't. For almost a year. Read

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1144782676782592992006-04-11T13:56:00.000-05:002006-04-11T21:37:19.116-05:00

This from the AP:"Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday he would not engage in "fantasy land" speculation about a possible U.S. attack onIran' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Iran, though he said the Bush administration is concerned about Tehran's nuclear ambitions. "This is wise. One should be involved in only one fantasy land at a time, and right now, that is

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1144698486861967482006-04-10T14:35:00.000-05:002006-04-10T14:50:39.096-05:00

Yeah, I've read all the Bush library jokes. All two of them, Coloring books, yada yada yada.The interesting thing to me is where it goes. Apparently 3 Texas universities want it. This for a guy who went to Yale and Harvard (who don't want it, by the way). Since he was never much into academics, why should it be at a university at all, or college, or juco or community college? Why not put it in a

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1144697658230060942006-04-10T14:22:00.000-05:002006-04-10T14:35:19.553-05:00

Driving home from SA Saturday, I had the SA NPR station on (89.1) and was listening to This American Life. The show's theme was Neighbors, and the opening was about a woman who ran a charity called Love Your Neighbor that helped homeless and poor folk. Turns out another good Samaritan was doing the same kind of work under the name Love Thy Neighbor. Apparently, the first lady was concerned that

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1144272571115263092006-04-05T16:24:00.000-05:002006-04-05T16:30:11.266-05:00

Interesting new book by former Times editor Stephen Kinzer traces the 14 regime changes the US had a direct hand in from 1893 to now. His thesis is that they succeed initially but eventually result in negative results for the good ol' US of A. Here's a link to an excerpt:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325069You'd think after 110 years, we'd learn. Of course when you

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1144163666118796762006-04-04T10:14:00.000-05:002006-04-04T10:14:52.590-05:00

Ding dong the Dick is deadWhich old Dick?The wicked DickDing dong the wicked Dick is dead!I broke out in spontaneous song, march around like one of the newly liberated guards when I heard Tom Delay will resign. What will I do when he's marched off to jail? Who wants to have celebratory drink?

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1144084582870931532006-04-03T12:10:00.000-05:002006-04-03T12:17:08.300-05:00

Remember the mantra of the Bush administration and his lackeys in Congress that they didn't misrepresent intelligence because everyone had the same intelligence and thought the same thing because of it?One journalist with the National Journal is putting the lie to that with his reporting. Check this article:http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0330nj1.htmNot only did they heat

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1143820327782043402006-03-31T09:42:00.000-06:002006-03-31T09:55:33.693-06:00

Very interesting interview with Tom Friedman on Fresh Air yesterday.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5311748I think you should listen to the whole thing, but if you don't have time, move the cursor to about the last tenth of the interview and stream from there. Friedman talks about how Cheney and the oil folks have staked out energy "reality" by saying conservation is nice,

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1143653091570624262006-03-29T10:33:00.000-06:002006-03-29T11:26:04.696-06:00

Right-wing commentator Fred Barnes was on Fresh Air yesterday promoting his new book "Rebel in Chief," in which he argues W is a rebel transforming the conservative movement and America. The irony is I think Fred's right, but not nearly in the positive way he meant.It was finished right around the time of W's second inaugural with all it's high-minded talk of spreading freedom and democracy

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1143561135447061442006-03-28T09:47:00.000-06:002006-03-28T15:47:30.830-06:00

The mainstream press (NY Times) has finally done an in depth story on the whitehouse memo that shows Bush was intent on war even as he was claiming to be exhausting diplomatic efforts to avoid the war.http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/9779Now only the ideologically committed believe this Presidents web of lies.But maybe replacing Andy Card with Josh Bolten as chief of staff will turn

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1143044720219002182006-03-22T10:17:00.000-06:002006-03-22T10:38:26.990-06:00

Yes! Associate Press Reporter Jennifer Loven dared do a story (March 18) about how the President misrepresents his opponents in his speeches.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060318/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_s_straw_menAnd, of course, the right-wing bloggers are all over her.http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013465.phpWhy? It is obvious bias to point out that the President is using that 12th grade debate

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1142968843947253542006-03-21T13:17:00.000-06:002006-03-21T13:20:43.956-06:00

Wow! Look at all these new features! Gonna try the bloggame again. And this time I intend to stay current. Really. Truly.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1105035512881622382005-01-06T12:16:00.000-06:002005-01-06T14:12:59.106-06:00

Review of House of Flying Daggers I was really looking forward to this movie, having just seen Hero, director Zhang Yimou's previous and, to my mind, very successful foray into the Asian martial art ballet genre. It occurs to me, that's what these things are. Like opera and ballet, they are highly stylized and mythologized imaginings of the real thing, and as such, they run the risk of being way

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1102952354542848712004-12-13T09:38:00.000-06:002004-12-13T09:39:14.543-06:00

AN ARGUMENT FOR A NEW LIBERALISM.A Fighting Faith, by Peter Beinart, The New Republic On January 4, 1947, 130 men and women met at Washington's Willard Hotel to save American liberalism. A few months earlier, in articles in The New Republic and elsewhere, the columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop had warned that "the liberal movement is now engaged in sowing the seeds of its own destruction."

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1102695701075625952004-12-10T10:14:00.000-06:002004-12-10T10:21:41.076-06:00

As you may know, I have always liked Howard Dean and he was my first choice for the Democratic Nomination. Why? He understands how to rebuild the party and make it mean something. He made a speech this Wednesday about the future of the party, and he is right on in my opinion. Check it out. Remarks by Governor Howard Dean On the Future of the Democratic Party The George Washington University

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Okay, I was lame and didn't blog for some time. I apologize. I intend to blog forth now. Remember the Fallujah assault that "broke the back of the insurgency across Iraq?" There are now over 150 attacks against US and Iraqi puppet, oh sorry, I meant interim government targets... A day. We average 4 to 5 dead Americans per day. Only Allah knows how many Iraqis are dying a day. We don't count them.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1089818397256258272004-07-14T10:04:00.000-05:002004-07-14T10:19:57.256-05:00

I've wanted to blog, really I have, but I've gotten so distracted lately. Though the administration never comes out and say so, they imply that the torture techniques they employ are done so only to terrorists and in an effort to discover the next 9-11 attack. Newsweek has a report out that most of those tortured in Abu Ghirab weren't even terror suspects. They were common criminals and some

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1088400764842522942004-06-28T00:22:00.000-05:002004-06-28T00:39:52.020-05:00

Hey, I heard a great idea about putting Reagan's mug on currency. The suggestion was to reintroduce the $500 bill and put Reagan on it. Perfect. Then his favorite people would get to see him whenever they needed inspiration. By the way, I found this on the US Treasury page about discontinued denominations: United States currency notes now in production bear the following portraits: George

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1088184756407787842004-06-25T12:32:00.000-05:002004-06-25T12:32:36.406-05:00

The Bush admin. hits a new low. The VP of the US told a US Senator to Fuck off on the floor of the Senate. And this is after Cheney started it by accosting Patrick Leahy and berating him for accusing Haliburton of war profiteering. When Leahy had the temerity to point out that the Republicans played much more dirty pool by accusing Senate Democrats of Anti-Catholic bias just because they

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1088102657505695792004-06-24T13:43:00.000-05:002004-06-24T13:44:17.506-05:00

'Nother review of Michael Moore's new movie: F 9/11 http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/?040628crci_cinema

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1088017794862053942004-06-23T14:08:00.000-05:002004-06-23T14:09:54.863-05:00

Well, I manage to stumble through a dress rehearsal of Molly Sweeney last night. Good thing too, we open Friday. Here's the promotional blurb: > Hey Folks, > > Due to a clerical error, I've been allowed to trod the > boards and do a play again! It's called Molly > Sweeney, by the Irish playwright Brian Friel and it > runs Friday and Saturday this week and then > Thursday-Sat. for the

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1087580068163885982004-06-18T12:29:00.000-05:002004-06-18T12:34:28.163-05:00

I meant to post this yesterday but was swamped with preparation for my play. Wednesday night, Nightline blew the lid of the torture scandal with a carefully research paper trail and timeline that plainly suggests the the top levels of our government okayed and encouraged torture in Afghanistan and Iraq. See this link for more info: http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/Nightline/ See the section of

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1087579704184939972004-06-18T12:23:00.000-05:002004-06-18T12:28:24.183-05:00

Damn it. I had to go and read the Letters to the Editor section of the E-version of the Statesman. Of course, I found something I had to respond to. Here is the ignorant fallacy: "Separation is a myth I disagree forcefully with the June 13 letter "Separation not a myth." The writer expects us to assume, as liberals would have us do, that separation of church and state is a principle found in

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1087405950613263352004-06-16T12:04:00.001-05:002004-06-16T12:12:30.613-05:00

Michael Moore's new Movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, is according to the Fox News review, "a really brilliant piece of work, and a film that members of all political parties should see without fail." Whaaaaaaa!?!? While the commentators on that network are calling the movie an anti Bush screed, the reviewer, Roger Friedman, says that is wrong headed. "As much as some might try to marginalize this

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1087247768076404672004-06-14T16:14:00.000-05:002004-06-14T16:16:08.076-05:00

This from Seth in a comment about the June 10th post. Sickening, if true: Army Admits Discharged Soldier Injured Tuesday June 8, 2004 11:46 PM By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A military police officer was discharged partly because of a head injury he suffered while posing as an uncooperative detainee during a

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1087247447961350812004-06-14T16:06:00.000-05:002004-06-14T16:10:47.960-05:00

Here's the press release for the play I'm in: For Immediate Release                                                   Norman Blumensaadt June 4, 2004                                                                  (512)453-7943 Different Stages . 4602 B Rosedale . Austin TX 78756 Different Stages Presents Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney June 25 - July 17, 2004 The Auditorium on Waller Creek,

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1087228175307788712004-06-14T10:22:00.001-05:002004-06-14T18:29:20.726-05:00

Lots of goofy and arrogant little neo-cons love to call reasonable, moderate people who think that capitalism needs regulation (classic definition of a political liberal) "socialists," once again letting their ignorance show. See, Socialism means a state managed economy. We are not now nor ever have been socialist. We are a liberal democracy with a lightly regulated free market economy.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1086895158104793052004-06-10T14:11:00.000-05:002004-06-10T14:20:13.970-05:00

Still don't believe the Abu Ghirab scandal was the result of orders from the very top of this administration? Now we find out that lawyers at the justice department argued that the President could order torture on our enemies as he saw fit. And John Ashcroft, the top law enforcement officer of the US has refused to let us see these arguments not for any legal reasons or because of Executive

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1086795088418696382004-06-09T10:12:00.000-05:002004-06-09T10:31:28.416-05:00

Hey, did you hear that a guy named Ronald Reagan died? Apparently he played the 40th President of the United States on this long-ass West Wing type program that lasted 8 years. Now they're doing the longest tribute to a dead actor I've ever seen. Longer than those Oscar remembers segments. I heard a guy say Reagan taught him to love his country again. Some other guy said Reagan defeated the

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1086719973204569992004-06-08T13:38:00.000-05:002004-06-08T13:39:33.203-05:00

Hear about the racist attack in Austin? http://www.statesman.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_045c5610e15191ab0068.html

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1086710958550766002004-06-08T11:04:00.000-05:002004-06-08T11:09:18.550-05:00

What follows is my reply to Kay Bailey's reply to a petition I sent her: I thank you for you prompt replies to my emails over the years. Courtesy seems to be a lost art today both in day to day life and especially in politics. In particular, I refer to your email: June 7, 2004 > > > Mr. Thomas Chamberlain > 4804 Avenue G > Austin, TX 78751-2523 > > Dear Mr. Chamberlain: > > Thank you

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1086372884902138102004-06-04T12:52:00.000-05:002004-06-04T13:14:44.903-05:00

Today is the 15th anniversary of the "June 4th Incident" as it is known in China--Tiananmen Square to us. Incredibly, the Commie party there is still prohibiting any commemoration of it and placing activists under house arrest to prevent it, and just as incredibly people are doing so in their small way anyway. Since the party is the state there, they reason that criticism of the party is bad

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1086318940006778352004-06-03T22:01:00.000-05:002004-06-03T22:15:40.006-05:00

The Austin Film Society, of which I am a member has some cool perks, one of which is free preview screenings. Tonight, I saw one you guys need to see. It's called Control Room and it opens next Friday in Austin at the Arbor. Check it out. It is a documentary that follows Al Jazeera and some of the CentComm folks they interact with just before the invasion of Iraq and through the time Bush

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1086200382286039562004-06-02T13:02:00.000-05:002004-06-02T13:24:59.770-05:00

Yesterday, I agreed to fill in for a drop out and appear in a play. It opens the 25th of June and I have to memorize 1/3 of the 57 page play. No worries! 'Specially since my character can't stay on topic. His first bit is 5 and 1/2 pages long. I am an eejit and the Irish say. Oh did I mention it's a Brian Friel play and set in Ballybeg, Donegal so I have to pass for a mick. It's called

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1085598325905787262004-05-26T13:18:00.000-05:002004-05-26T14:05:25.906-05:00

I went to Moveon.org's site today to answer their question, "What's you position on the US military presence in Iraq? They had these choices: Immediate withdrawal Setting a date for withdrawal Staying the course, I don't know--it's a mess. I chose the last option and then added this comment. This is not a question for which multiple choice answers work very well. Bush's adventure has

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-108395855182908502004-05-07T14:35:00.000-05:002004-05-07T16:29:03.356-05:00

As you may or may not know, the Chronicle published a blurb about Nudge fest in yesterday's issue and mentioned In Flagrante, erroneously accusing Scott Von Doviak of making it. (see link for more info on Mr. Von Doviak) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-1251/ This is what I wrote to the Chronicle: Correction to the Nudge Micro Digital Film Festival story on page 60 of the May 7, 2004

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1083698742811983522004-05-04T13:38:00.000-05:002004-05-06T13:44:57.826-05:00

I have been stewing over the John Kerry-isn't-a-good-Catholic-because-he-is-pro-choice flap and now I think I'll serve up the result. I was raised in this church and took it very seriously at one point in my life, so I've thought about this charge a lot. It is specious and here's why. Being pro-choice simply acknowledges that in a multi-faith society abortion decisions are best left to the

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1083694092649419142004-05-03T11:18:00.000-05:002004-05-04T13:12:04.796-05:00

Well, turns out three-ear is not only a female, but a mommy as well. Saw her engorged dinners while she was munching sunflower seeds the other day. Monkey-time Randy informs me that the third ear is a surveillance implant of the Homeland Security Dept. That explains why she's eyeballing me all the time. Typing of animals, (I'm not speaking so I can't write that can I?) I'm listening to the

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ABC's Nightline is going on the air tonight a reading of the names of the soldiers that have died in Iraq along with a face to go with the name. But 8 stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group won't be showing it, because the CEO has decided that the unvarnished reading of the war dead is an antiwar statement. Mind you, Ted Koppel isn't going to make any value judgements while introducing the

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1083021063666619542004-04-26T18:10:00.000-05:002004-04-26T18:15:17.216-05:00

Now with Comments. Enjoy.

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Okay, (Rain last 24h, trace) (previous 24h, .6 inches) Bob just came buy with lunch that I grilled some of while he chopped and warmed the other 2/3rds. I got to point 3-ear, my local squirrel out to him. This year, I moved my bird feeder from a porch hang down to a pole in the front yard, thus making it squirrel resistant and taking away my motivation to capture and release the beasts like

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981437438532974750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844218.post-1082991802811957192004-04-26T09:33:00.000-05:002004-04-26T10:07:35.950-05:00

Being easily influenced, I've started this log cuz some friends of mine started one and I didn't want to feel left out. Plus, I needed a physical place to stick my coffee-induced rants before they leak out of my head and into the ether with the other waste heat produced daily 'round here. So here 'tis.

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