pics and babbling

Well, the sun came up after all

Published on November 5 2008

Well, that's over. After an extremely long-hour shift Monday night into Tuesday afternoon, I settled exhausted on the sofa last night to watch election returns come in. I had a little college-style drinking game in mind, to take a swig every time I heard...

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May I be forgiven....

Published on November 2 2008

IT's ALL MY FAULT. This arrived in email today. And I ALREADY VOTED!!! I hope embedding a Moveon.org video doesn't cause my site -- or my brain -- to explode.

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It's the end of summer....

Published on October 31 2008

Happy Celtic New Year!

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Just Imagine

Published on October 31 2008

The End of Journalism Imagine the reaction of the New York Times or the Washington Post had John McCain renounced his promise to participate in public campaign financing, proceeded instead to amass $600 million and outraise the publicly financed Barack...

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Halloween at the White House

Published on October 31 2008

LOL!!!! When trick-or-treaters come to the door, it will be answered by two large 'Secret Service Agents' with one bearing a nearly empty bowl of candy. If there are two or more tricksters ringing, the agents will compare all of their bags. If one child...

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I love to beat the rush!

Published on October 28 2008

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Well.... duh

Published on October 27 2008

The media coverage of the race for president has not so much cast Barack Obama in a favorable light as it has portrayed John McCain in a substantially negative one, according to a new study of the media since the two national political conventions ended....

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Says it all.

Published on October 26 2008

I'm obviously not a Harvard lawyer, and never will be. But this ain't the Constitution I learned about in 7th grade civics class, either. I seem to recall being taught that the document was meant to limit government, not to limit me. Maybe I was wrong....

WFTV-Channel 9's Barbara West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment. "Are you joking?" said Biden,...