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Citizen Smash links to this article [free registration required] in the Chicago Tribune about a woman whose son was killed in Iraq. In the eyes of his anti-war mother, Brian Slavenas was a man of peace who died while reluctantly serving in a conflict he disagreed with. To his father and brother, both veterans, the […]

Yep, it's the middle of the night here on the West Coast, and Sen. Rick Santorum is on the Senate floor and boy is he good. Santorum is warning the Democrats that the day will come where the tables will be turned and they aren't going to like it. We have let the Richard Paez's […]

Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter illustrates why most journalists shouldn't be allowed anywhere near numbers. We'll start with an absolute oh-my-God-what-was-I-thinking howler. Surely by now someone has told Carter of this utterly astounding error he (and his fact checker, if he even has one) has made here: not knowing the difference between a trillion and a […]

This is funny, comparing presidential hopeful Howard Dean to the record store clerks in "High Fidelity." The man setting the tone of the campaign so far is Howard Dean, who is reported to be quite popular with Generation X and Y voters. When asked "What is your favorite song?" at a Sept. 9 debate, he […]

...damned if you don't" news category, it appears that officials in Germany are in a quandary. A bird that was near extinction just two decades ago is doing fine now, thank you, with more than 6,000 cormorants in the wild. The problem? Well, the cormorants are eating endangered fish. "About 90 percent of river fish […]

For some unexplainable reason, The New York Times waited over two weeks to publish this letter from historian Mark Von Hagen, whom the Times hired to look into Duranty's work. To the Editor: Regarding Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s suggestion to the Pulitzer Prize Board that revoking Walter Duranty's 1932 prize recalled the "Stalinist practice to airbrush […]

So, to set this up. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) is bloviating, and he uses as an example of the unfairness of the GOP to former President Clinton's judicial nominee Elena Kagan (sp?). According to Reed, Kagan was nominated for a federal judgeship, but never got a hearing. She is now dean of the Harvard Law […]

I was going to begin watching the debate on judges on CSPAN-2, but Sen. Barbara Boxer was speaking. I'm sorry, but I can't afford her -- after about a minute of watching her spout off, I'd smash the TV with a baseball bat. I'll tune in later.

Tonight's the all-night talkathon in the Senate about the Democrats' illegal filibusters of Bush judicial nominees. I'll likely watch some of it when I get home from work, but the exercise is really meaningless. The show may get a little additional press coverage of the Democrats' illegal tactics, but it is not a serious effort […]

Today marks two years since I started this blog. I had wanted to create a Web site for some time, but the prospect of spending more time on HTML coding than real writing prevented that. I eventually came across Blogger one day and the rest, as they say, is history. When this first began, about […]