Happy Mothers Day!

There was a drum circle for Earth Day in one of our parks here in Atlanta, and my wife & I attended, and brought our drums.   Usually, the people here who participate in this don’t like photographers, but I explained that I was only taking shots to make a [...]

With what must be the best week of Pres. Obama’s presidency so far, he’s back in the saddle again. So this weekend’s theme is about making good things happen and getting back to where you once belonged. You can guess the kickoff selection: Back in the Saddle — Aerosmith Get [...]

AdLib : Night Chris. Seems like time to bring this edition of Vox Populi to a close. Thanks all for a rousing evening! Have a great weekend! ChrisR266 : I’m out too, friends. Been a stimulus to the mind and warmth to the sould AdLib : Chris – Indeed. The [...]

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A little nugget of Anglo-Irish history.

The Daily Planet is on vacation. It will resume on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Stop all the news until I get back, please!

“When the World is at Peace, a gentleman keeps his Sword by his side.” ~ Wu Tsu   Welcome to the first in a series of articles about the history of martial arts. Each post will cover a different “style” of martial arts from all over the world. Trace it’s [...]

“What happened to your hand,” the Saudi nabob asked him. And thus my dad colluded with the Saudis in Beverly Hills.

It didn’t take long before the verbal snipers came out to play in the wake of Bin Laden’s death. It wasn’t enough that most of the Republicans, with few exceptions, were crediting the abysmal George W Bush with the end game which came Sunday evening. I wondered how many days’ [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The media is failing Americans again by buying into the narrative that there is a real debate if using torture actually helped or did not help track down Osama Bin Laden.  It is simply logically invalid to let the debate continue that Osama Bin Laden was anyway discovered through the [...]

Evil is defined as something morally reprehensible but that definition opens up more doors.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, May 3, 2011

  You can access all the past editions of The Daily Planet on the green Category bar on the top of each page under the heading PlanetPOV. _____________________________________________ President Obama Announcement     President’s Vow Fulfilled   Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Killing of Osama bin Laden [...]

Osama Bin Laden has been killed, reported at this time as being by American forces.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ~George S. Patton World War 2 was the bloodiest, largest, and most costly war the world had ever seen. But it had to be. It was basically a quasi re-match [...]