Don’t forget, clocks ‘fall back’ an hour tonight. I am glad this is the age of the DVD, because the permanent flashing of ’12:00′ on my VCR combined with a series of appliance clocks that were an hour off 6 months of the year was a constant reminder of my personal failings.
Archives for October 2005
Daylight
More Congressional Perfidy
I write a post about how much I enjoy organic foods, and then I find out that the party I belong to is trying to destroy that, too. Why? Corporate greed: Congress voted yesterday to weaken the nation’s organic food standards in response to pressure from large-scale food manufacturers. The Organic Trade Association (OTA) and …
Football Saturday
I have about 25 posts I want to write, but I have no motivation. Maybe after the Georgia game (Hunker Down, You HAIRY DAWGS!) I will be back with something. In the meantime, two observations from the grocery store: 1.) I bought some organic grapes, and they were spectacular. I don’t know if it is …
Batman Begins
I am only twenty minutes into Batman Begins, and my thoughts so far are that it is so good that all the other Batmans and any trace of their existence should be destroyed. This is the brooding, dark knight Batman that I know from the comics. More thoughts later when I finish it. *** Update …
The War on Your Neighbor
Via Hit and Run, the Drug War Chronicle has the gory details: More than half a million people were behind bars for drug offenses in the United States at the end of last year, according to numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In a report released Sunday, Prisoners in 2004, the Justice Department number-crunchers …
Fitzgerald and Libby
I had to step out for a while after the indictments were handed down, so I am going to read the transcript of the press conference, the indictment (again), and the nine page statement in a litle bit, and then I will get around to deciding what I think of the whole affair. I tried …
Same Sex Marriage
Cathy Young has a long, interesting read on her views of same-sex marriage.