Here is another post by Jen C, that has been on my mind at least since 9/11. As I said on a comment over at Seev’s today, I honestly don’t think that our government had anything to do with the terrorist attacks 6 years ago.
I do believe that the executive branch has certainly taken every [...]

Real ID will ’strengthen’ Americans’ privacy
In written testimony (DHS Secretary Michael) Chertoff submitted (PDF) on Wednesday to the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, he made another pitch for his department’s requirements, which generally say that starting on May 11, 2008, Americans will need a federally approved, “machine readable” ID card to travel [...]

I had a comment this morning from Jen Clark on The Monster that won’t die that I thought was worth talking about. She posts that there could be more to the Larry Craig scandal than meets the eye, stating that he was outed for opposing Bush’s eavesdropping. Now I have to be honest before this [...]

I was reading the news last night, when this headline caught my eye:
As Republican Hypocrisy Party Tanks, Conservatives Lean Libertarian
Yesterday, MSNBC news network, Chris Mattews introduced a daily newspaper editor from one of the “most conservative papers in America.” She corrected him, saying their editorial page was conservative, and then [...]

I have been thinking a lot recently about politics and about the upcoming election. I have subscribed to some of the candidates email distributions to keep tabs on what they are up to, and to see if I they will provide me with any details about their positions. To say the least, [...]

I found this over at the Populist Party, which is “a political party that seeks solutions to our problems through the establishment of a Constitutional Democracy and strict adherence to the Bill of Rights. Your liberty is our goal; governmental form is simply the method to achieving it.” While I [...]

This was orignially posted last year on 2/16/06, and still seems appropriate:
Today is a great day!!
Today is the first day of the new baseball season when Pitchers and Catchers report. It is almost like the you can feel the winter coming to an end (in spite of todays snowy forecast) and a warm breeze blowing [...]

From the Journal Times and the LA Times an excellent summation of my current frustration with the current administration’s policy on this subject:
SLOWLY BUT surely, the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping on Americans suspected of ties with foreign terrorists is being brought under the rule of law. But the Bush administration [...]

So I open up the Stamford Advocate this morning and see this article about how Alex Rodriguez is already side-stepping the issue of whether he will opt out of his record breaking $252 million contract at the end of this season.   This is the same out clause that JD Drew and Scott Boras (Arod’s agent too) [...]

One thing is for sure, Turner and Aqua Teen Hunger Force certainly is getting a lot of publicity out of this guerilla marketing campaign, and now it seems they are paying a little more for it as well, in the form of fines to the fine folks up in Boston MA, for [...]

Peyton Manning has finally gotten that monkey off his back, and can now rest easily knowing that as a legitimate first ballot Hall-of-Famer has he done the one remaining thing left off his resume; Won the Super Bowl.
Congratulations to Tony Dungy and the rest of the Indianapolis organization. They played an excellent [...]

It is very amusing to me that since November, when the Giants and Bonds verbally agreed to a contract, that nothing has been finalized yet. I have no doubt that he will be signed before spring training or soon after it begins. It was announced yesterday, that they had finally come to [...]

This is an excellent explanation of what the Congress can do to slow down or stop, King George II and Dick (The Penguin) Cheney in their continuing war effort. What I don’t understand is why the neo-cons are continually to disregard the explicit ideals of the founding fathers with regards to the constitution.
The three branches [...]

Brian Cashman, the GM of the NY Yankees finds himself in a tough spot these days. His dilemna; what to do with Bernie Williams. As of today, Cashman has not indicated if he is going to bring Bernie back for another season in pinstripes. Williams has been in Bronx since 1991, and is nearing the [...]

So I saw this piece from the St. Louis Post Dispatch, written by Kevin Horrigan, Vice Squad: A perfectly legitimate scoop, which does a great job of summing up my concerns with the recent violations of personal civil rights by members of the executive branch.  It begs the question of where is the line of [...]

I have pretty much given up on the Red Sox and trade rumors, especially after they have threatened to trade Manny Ramirez for the past few winters but yet have sat tight with him, And being a Yankee fan it is certainly biased to comment on your main rivals speculative moves.
However, I just saw on [...]

A friend of mine over at Dave’s Chronic Malcontents, sent me a link this weekend from the New York Times Op-Ed section written by Garry Wills. Mr. Wills, makes an excellent and much needed point
WE hear constantly now about “our commander in chief.” The word has become a synonym for “president.” It is said that [...]

Picture the scene,
Your ear to the wall,
Like a distant scream
I heard one guitar
and my whole life changed
Wait a minute, it is a bad sign when you immediately digress from your original rant about how terrible Miami Vice (the TV Series) is, and go right into the lyrics of ‘Jukebox Hero’ by Foreigner. So let me [...]

An important announcement from the Scientific community.
A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named “Bushcronium.”
Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311.
These particles are held together [...]

I am not sure what is going on in Illinois or why a state legislator would introduce a bill that would mandate that 6th grade girls receive the HPV vaccination, I found this article online at Stop The ACLU, (which is somewhat of an interesting name, since this cause seems like a case the ACLU [...]

I saw this article in the Stamford Advocate, via the LA Times written by Jonathan Chiat, and thought it was quite interesting to say the least. It essentially lays out the political minefield that is Washington D.C. I have been engaging in a discussion with E-Luv’s Big Mouth, about how much accolades Senator Jim Webb [...]

I found this article at Reason, and just need to laugh at the attempt by the governmental agencies trying to regulate roommates.com, and more importantly attempting to change how we look for cohabitants.
 
“I may not be a gay man, but I have a lot of things in common with gay men. I’m very tidy. I [...]

It is 22 months until Nov 2008, when we will go to the polls and elect the next President of the United States of America. It is a wide open race because the sitting president is unable to run, the vice-president has said he won’t run, so the race will be wide open for both [...]

I was just going to add this to the links of the day, when I saw a few things I wanted to highlight here from Paris Lemon
The Los Angeles Times had a very interesting op-ed piece today which points out something that seems to be almost completely overlooked; say Hillary Clinton is elected President in [...]

Here is another brilliant reason of why Oprah Winfrey and all those like her are not good for the country, should not be listened to, is not a roll model and quite possibly should be removed from the airwaves forever. This is a perfect example of her exploiting a family simply to hop on a [...]

According to Yahoo, there is this crack pot in California legislature (I know that is hard to believe), who wants to outlaw spanking of children under 3.
A California lawmaker says she has proposed a law that would make spanking a small child a crime to be punished by jail time or a [...]

ESPN is reporting that former Senator George Mitchell, who had been appointed by commissioner Bud Selig to investigate steroid usage in baseball in 2006 (which I wrote about on 3/30/06 and you can read here).  He has essentially been stonewalled by the teams and the players including the union ever since then [...]

Well it seems that el Presidente and his high and mighty Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez have finally decided to reverse course and request warrants for domestic surveillance. This has been 5 years in the making, and I think the executive branch believes if they just turn around and say now we [...]

I just saw Scrubs tonight and it was a musical. It was so well written and absolutely hysterical. Who knew the Janitor (Neil Flynn) could sing so well.Tonight’s episode centered around a patient who hears everyone singing in a musical style. So they did an entire story line as if the show were [...]

I know  this is a shameless plug, but here is an email and link to my college friend’s video, which is being submitted to become part of a new TV Show. Please give it a view, I actually think it is quite good.
I recently completed a short film and entered it into competition for an [...]