Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I live in Southern Marin. My daughter spent this week in a camp in Northern Marin. As I have the past few days, I spent three hours today driving her to camp and picking her up from camp (a large part of which time was just spent sitting in traffic).
Continue readingIt’s another low flow blog day, although I try to make up for it at night. I’m working on another brief (and these things do help pay the bills), but the real slow-down comes from the driving this week. Between my kids’ various activities, I’ve been spending four hours a
Continue readingEven thought I didn’t and couldn’t post yesterday, it didn’t mean I wasn’t paying attention. I have a whole bunch of links I want to share with you. I won’t take too much time on any one link, because I have only a short time before the Mom stuff starts
Continue readingI apologize for the low volume of posts yesterday. It was a frantic day. I finally finished the brief, with a lot of help from DQ, who insisted that the finished product be logical, articulate and compelling. I’m very glad to have that off my desk. Immediately after finishing the
Continue readingThis is the kind of grass-roots stuff that the major campaigns just can’t improve upon. When I saw that it was longer than nine minutes, I suspected I wouldn’t stick around to watch it all, but I did — every minute. It’s intelligent and funny. Watch. Then recommend it to
Continue readingAs a political satirist, Confederate Yankee just gets better and better. Who knew that someone rock solid on investigative reporting, as well as political and military analysis, could also be so good at biting political humor and word play?
Continue readingDuring the Middle Ages and right through to the early modern era, crazy people believed that they were witches or the devil (or, at least, doing the bidding of witches and the devil). During the post-WWII space era, crazy people substituted creatures from out of space for the devil. Again,
Continue readingIs this animal cartoon-cute or like something out of a horror movie? It’s definitely a pest in Australia, but I’m not talking about its conduct, just its looks.
Continue readingIt was Aristotle who first stated that man is a social animal. He was right. Humans define themselves by their allegiance to their family, their community and their country. The ancient desert rule condemning a thief to lose his hand (an idea that Mohammed co-opted), was not intended simply to
Continue readingI’ve been cultivating two facebook identities: the physical me and the cyber me (that’s the one about which I give a little bit of info in the side bar). The facebook identity for the physical me explains a lot about why I was an unthinking liberal for so long. My
Continue readingI don’t often go to movies in theaters (after all, what’s Netflix for?), but I’d make a special effort for this one. The only problem is that I suspect there’s going to be a defensive shield around the entire San Francisco Bay Area preventing its entry into any movie theater.
Continue readingZombie has a new photo album up, one that’s only for the strong of stomach (and I say that having scrolled through just some of the blurry version). Zombie bravely went to the Up Your Alley Fair, which makes the Folsom Street Fair (which Zombie recorded last week) look wholesome.
Continue readingThe rampaging Republican representatives left the House at the stroke of 5:00, presumably to forestall having the police escort them off the premises. In terms of showmanship, I would have opted for the latter — “they were arrested to keep America strong” — but Republicans are so gosh darn law-abiding.
Continue readingTwo of my favorite bloggers — Paragraph Farmer and Joshua Pundit — got “spam blocked.” Their blogs are still accessible, but they can no longer post. The way spam blocking works is that someone who doesn’t like the content on your Blogger-hosted blog clicks repeatedly on the little “spam” button
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