Here we are now, entertain us!
- Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Just look at Bob and Judy, they're happy as can be
inventing situations, putting them on TV
- Talking Heads, "Found A Job"
About six weeks ago, the world was introduced to...
I was chosen for jury duty on September 10. The rest of the prospective jurors were allowed to leave and resume their lives and for some of them, I guess, their jobs in the nearby World Trade Center. Having...
I recently attended my 5th Netroots Nation Convention. I was on staff with the convention for the first two years when it was the YearlyKos Convention, then I stepped down after Chicago and have been on the advisory board...
The cover of the latest edition of TIME magazine shows the noseless face of an 18 year-old Afghan girl, who was disfigured as a result of running away from a forced marriage. The cover suggested that this is what...
When you stay at hotels around the country, visit a bar or restaurant, find yourself in some public place where there's a tv, you're more than likely to see on that tv either a commercial for Dulcolax or Fox News.
The...
The Boston Globe just reported today on a study at the University of Michigan that examined how people, especially those who are wrong about what they believe to be true, respond to being presented with the facts:
Facts don’t necessarily...
So I'm out on my driveway washing my car last weekend, when my neighbor walks by. He is an old Chinese guy in his late 90s. I see him often, making his way to the corner and back, a...
We are stardust, we are golden
we are billion year old carbon
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
- Jonie Mitchell, "Woodstock"
Ferrets are more determined than they are bright. Case in point being my own pet ferret, Rosie....
Happy Fathers Day, Dad.
The day is here. What memories do you have of this day? Do you remember a kindness that you and your father shared? A secret you cherished, one your siblings did not know? An ice cream...
Well, Joe Biden was certainly right when he said that President Obama would be "tested" soon after taking office. The question is not so much "how did he do" on the test as it is, "when will the tests...
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