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From Mark Goldblatt's review of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's latest bile in book form: (Since Dowd's experience figures so prominently throughout her book, allow me a personal aside here: Why are women so often drawn to grand, totalizing theories to make sense of their individual regrets? I'm roughly Dowd's age and have never […]

Once again, Carlsbad at Sunset.

It should come as no surprise that when Ann Coulter tries to speak on a college campus that trouble follows. For the record -- I'm no fan of Coulter's. I think she's a bomb-thrower and generally does more harm than good for the conservative cause. But I wanted to highlight to something else in the […]

It looks like the law which requires colleges and universities to allow military recruiters the same access to campus as private employers receives will be upheld by the Supreme Court. The law, referred to as the Solomon Amendment, allows the government to punish educational institutions which do not comply with the law by pulling hundreds […]

Here's another shot from Monday's sunset in Carlsbad, Calif., using my Olympus E-500.

The Democrats new leader in the war on terrorism, Rep. John Murtha has ... issues. (via Mickey Kaus) Murtha on whether or not there is a civil war going on in Iraq: [T]here's a civil war going. We're caught in between a civil war right now. Our troops are the targets of the civil war. […]

I'm hoping to do some more photoblogging now that I've finally got my hands on a digital SLR. This will put my venerable old Pentax ME Super into quasi retirement. For those of you who are at all interested in digital photography, I picked up an Olympus E-500. The unexpected bonus with this camera is […]

DNC chairman Howard Dean is pro-terrorist. That may sound like hyperbole, or be unfairly harsh, but in the wake of his statements on a San Antonio radio station, I think they're accurate. Saying the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman […]

One of the nice things about the Internet is that it is so much easier to actually go back and check what happened or see what was said. It's this fact that led to the famous statement that bloggers would "fact-check your @$$." Unfortunately, too many reporters and editors are too lazy to do their […]

I'm not hiring, but the San Diego Union-Tribune is. Sorry, these aren't newsroom positions, but for those of you who are good salesmen/women, the Union-Tribune can be a good place to work. Benefits are great, including an employer-match 401(k). So, why am I doing free advertising for my employer? Apparently they're having a hard time […]