“The protests in Iran show the neocons were right” Hard to believe, isn’t it? After all the discussion about how the neocons wanted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win the election in Iran last week (like HERE and HERE, e.g.), turns out that’s not the case at all. According to The Times‘ neocon-in-residence Daniel Finkelstein in his article Fancy that. They want […]

There’s a metaphor in here somewhere… I’m just sayin’…

Dang. It’s been a looo-ooong time since I posted. In the past 6 weeks I’ve been to British Columbia three times and to Edmonton, Alberta as well, usually for four days at a crack. That on top of household chores, our enormous garden and, for the first time in way too long, a social life, I haven’t had time to […]

Say what you want. If President Obama and his administration are picking people like this to handle things, we’re in damn good shape. Watch all 10 minutes. It’ll restore your faith that the grown-ups have taken charge. The Republicans are sooooo wishing they had people this smart to represent them. They don’t. I’m just sayin’…

The National Journal released a poll today that shows that 93% of Democrats (or is that Democrat Socialists?) and 57% of Republicans believe that “Dick” Cheney has hurt the Republican party since leaving office. The mistake that is made is to see this as unintentional and to accept “Dick” Cheney as part of a political landscape in which you are […]

Cross-posted at The Daily Kos. RealtyTrac today is reporting that foreclosures in America set a record in April. Foreclosure filings in the U.S. rose to a record for the second consecutive month in April as banks increased efforts to seize homes from delinquent borrowers. A total of 342,038 properties received a default or auction notice or were seized last month, […]

Well, for some folks. Like insurance company bigwigs. And these guys: Awesome. I’m just sayin’…

Back in March, I posted a blog entry about a trip my wife and I took to our beloved Arbor Brewing Company on St. Patrick’s Day. Unbeknownst to me, it was picked up by a local online newspaper called The Ann Arbor Chronicle and was on their front page for several days under their “New Media Watch” section. I happened […]

Actually, it’s not just Eric Cantor (R-VA) that’s doing Rush’s bidding, it’s the whole damn Republican Party. To whit: or When are these guys going to learn to get Rush’s permission first??? It would save them so many headaches having to retract things, to apologize, to change their course when Rush sets them straight. And they’d look a whole lot […]

We’ve been biding our time, patiently waiting since mid-February, to plant our garden. In the meantime, we got our seedlings planted and added a raised bed to plant our early cold weather-tolerant crops. With the new bed we now have a total of about 1400 square feet of garden including our herb garden. Here’s our seedlings: We have 60 heirloom […]

With the retirement of Justice Souter, President Obama, a man with nothing better to do these days (wink, wink) now has to tread a very narrow path to pick a new justice. Progressives will surely pressure him to appoint someone who follows in Souter’s liberal-leaning footsteps, perhaps a woman. Conservatives will, of course, are already condemning him for the choice […]