Broncos coach Mike Shanahan has upgraded my status from "out" to "questionable." Drugs are appearing to have an affect on me -- pain is no longer a serious problem but there continues to be numbness in my left shin. Sitting up is no longer a problem, but I'm not going to be running any marathons […]
It was perhaps the surest Oscar bet of the past 30 years. That Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" would win the prize for Best Documentary. (Complete list of winners here.) Were the bookies in Vegas even taking bets on that category? Probably not, they're not that stupid. Last Monday, the Union-Tribune's new ombudsman wrote about […]
I get over the flu just in time to get hit with sciatica. I write this laying on my side with my laptop on an adjacent table. Sitting up is no good. Standing is worse. Blogging will resume when I can feel my left leg.
Today's New York Times editorial page warns the New York City liberal faithful about that power-grabbing, facist, dictatorial Bush administration. A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the […]
It's not a Pulitzer, but I'm sure they probably treasure it just as much. Cuba unveiled a marble plaque on Saturday commemorating the interview 50 years ago by New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews that helped build the legend of Fidel Castro, the state news agency Prensa Latina reported. The plaque was placed on the […]
Here's a few articles from the past week or so that you really shouldn't miss. The Los Angeles Times story on 2nd Lt. Mark Jennings Daily. John Leo looks at how speech codes on campus have been stifling -- mostly conservative -- speech. Judge Gibson Lee should be recalled after giving eight black youths probation […]
Today the House of representatives voted 246-182 to cut off funding for the Iraq War. Oops. No they didn't. They voted 246-182 for a non-binding resolution disapproving of President Bush's "surge" plan to reduce violence, and kill insurgents and terrorists in Baghdad and the Anbar province. However, you couldn't really tell that from what Nancy […]
Eleven Emory University professors are taking former President and anti-Semite Jimmy Carter to the woodshed over his ever more ridiculous claim that his new book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" was designed to spark debate. Maybe it was, but Carter doesn't want to actually be involved with debating anyone who might challenge his intellectual honesty or […]
Just checked my freezer and there's still no $90,000 in cash in there. Disappointed, I took a $20 out of my wallet, put it in the freezer, closed the freezer door and then opened it again. I just wanted to know a little of what it felt like to be the Democrat representative from Louisiana, […]
It sounds almost Rumsfeldian: Know what you know and know what you don't know. Practical application: I wouldn't go on a TV show or do an interview to detail the intricacies of the Linux operating system. The extent of my knowlege of Linux is a few command line queries left over from the AIX OS […]