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Starting in the early morning hours of Sunday, terrorists worldwide could take solace in the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies would have to jump through all sorts of hoops to listen in on their private phone conversations. How did this happen? First a FISA court ruled bizarrely, that terrorists have a right to privacy. Well, […]

Fidel Castro, dead for a couple years, has announced that he won't "run" for office again. Good riddance. Here's hoping that Cuba Libre is close.

For some strange reason, the calendar, category list and blogroll normally on the sidebar have disappeared (from the Redoable template). I wasn't futzing with the template, so I don't know how this happened. If you want to access the blogroll or any of the other things that are missing, for the time being I suggest […]

I've got Jewel's "Who will save your soul?" song stuck in my head after listening to this speech by Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack, from a campaign rally a couple weeks back at UCLA. Captain Ed has helpfully provided a partial transcript of the remarks. In 2008, we are still a nation […]

There's a certain amount of self-interest involved, but I'm going to go out on a limb and defend nutty Bush-hater Chez Pazienza to a limited extent. Pazienza is a blogger in his spare time. His paying gig was as a senior producer for CNN's "American Morning." I say "was" because Panzienza was fired earlier this […]

I came across this article by former PBS ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin in Salon earlier this week decrying the abolishment of the ombudsman job at many media outlets. It's an interesting subject to me, but the most interesting part of the column is unrelated to the ombudsman's job, it's this: The Middle East has always been […]

When I got home this evening I watched the replay of the San Diego State Aztecs' 73-63 loss to New Mexico. The game airs on an obscure cable network created to serve the cities/teams of the Mountain West Conference called "the mtn." Yes, the all-lowercase affectation is a little annoying. The point: Color commentator Dave […]

I've been following the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District for years. (For background read here and here.) The short summary for those of you who haven't been following it is that Tyler Chase Harper was pulled out of class for wearing a T-shirt condemning homosexuality at school on the school-approved "Day of […]

Pseudonymous blogger Zombie once again braved the idiocy that is Berkeley and she has photos up, with more photos and video to come. For a lively discussion of the cesspool that is Berkeley, check out the comments over at Little Green Footballs.

I just got done reading P.J. O'Rourke's "Parliament of Whores." The book was first released in 1991, but O'Rourke's observations about the way government in America "works" is as spot-on today as it was back then. Though many of the names have changed (and some, such as Bush, haven't), the "politics" remain the same. We […]