cutting through the fat of this world
John Doe at the Tractor Tavern Saturday night as seen through the lens of a cellphone camera operated by someone who had too many whiskeys.
Got a new shirt too…
His new album, A Year in the Wilderness, is damn good. You should go buy it now.
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The Democrats have it and, much to the chagrin of the Administration, they are using it.
From today’s New York Times:
Two congressional committees are issuing subpoenas for testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor on their roles in the firings of eight federal prosecutors, according to two officials familiar [...]
In case you aren’t already a fan, I’ll post today’s and link it to the site. This is one comic that has me in stitches with just about every release. Some of the humor is too geeky to get, but most of it is just brilliant.
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While I was never a fan of the show (only watched maybe 1.2 episodes which were sufficiently violent and hateful to turn my stomach), I appreciate the fact that it was well loved by so many people. Plus the fact that it has been in the news non stop for a week has compelled me [...]
The Atlantic Monthly article on European and American shifts in secularism/religion is a good history and a good analysis. In the long haul I think that scepticism will probably carry the day but a lot of new “crusades” will be undertaken – but the banners will be only symbolic because they serve a political and [...]
Here are some excerpts from an article by Ross Douthat in the newest Atlantic Monthly about the rise of religion in Europe and the rise of secularism in America.
Nothing divides the United States from Europe like religion. America has its public piety and its multitude of thriving sects, Europe has its official secularism and its [...]
A story in the Sunday New York Times highlights the absurdity, not to mention immorality, of the Bush administration’s detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Ahktar Qassim Basit and a group of four other Muslim men who are ethnic Uighurs from western China were held in Guantanmo detention for four years, after being handed [...]
I just downloaded the Safari 3 beta today and eventually made it around to viewing a YouTube video in a friend’s LiveJournal post. To my surprise, at the end, the video’s familiar Play Again and other navigation features had been transformed, as if inspired by the new Leopard Desktop that was shown off today.
Dock like [...]
I am a huge fan of the United States Marine Corps and its history of exemplary service to this nation. That said I have to say I’m not sorry that the first Marine Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, will not be reappointed to a second term as the president’s top [...]
I was listening to NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’ recently when they played an excerpt from the most recent debate of GOP presidential hopefuls. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was saying that he could not imagine pursuing the war on terror and leaving Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq. It struck me that Mr Giuliani doesn’t have [...]
