One of the nice things about getting old is that you don’t have to deal with garbage like the Jonas Brothers until some scumbag at Fox decides it is what you need to see during the halftime show of a football game. In my case, I had never even heard of them until five minutes …
Archives for November 2008
Happy Thanksgiving
Parades, football, and turkey. What could go wrong?
I Was a Citizen
This morning, I went to the DMV to renew my driver’s license. It took forever. As a non-citizen, I am required to present my passport and my I-94 (immigration) card. I did that, as required. I was held up for over 2 hours because, according to the database, I was registered as a citizen of …
Foiled By Cultural Ignorance?
There seems to be a wave of deadly attacks in India aimed at westerners: Maharashtra state government spokesman Bhushan Gagri said 78 people killed and about 200 wounded, while police confirmed 26 deaths. Among the dead is the head of the Maharashtra state’s anti-terror squad, who apparently died in the violent aftermath of the attacks …
Why You Could NEVER Convince Me to Support the Death Penalty
Cases like this: Innocence Project client Steven Barnes was released from prison Tuesday morning, nearly two decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder in Oneida County. New DNA test results support Barnes’ longstanding claim of innocence in the 1985 rape and murder of a high school student for which he was convicted …
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The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Dobson, showing his Christian values: So, Kathleen Parker has determined that getting rid of social conservatives and shelving the values they fight for is the solution to what ails the Republican Party (“Giving Up on God,” Nov. 19). Isn’t that a little like Benedict Arnold handing George Washington a battle plan to win the Revolution? …
For the Horde
An Obama FCC transition team co-chair is outed as… a Tauren Shaman.