Lemmings are not that stupid, but . . .
Here is the letter I sent to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this morning. Somehow, I feel a sliver of humor might get their attention. Feel free to use this letter, if you like. The...
View ArticleEvicted from the couch: a neo-activist roll call
Yesterday evening, I blogged about how it took Sam Alito to get my ass out of bed, literally and figuratively. I'm wondering how many other Kossacks had the same experience.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jill Carroll: still captive. Update.
On January 7, in Iraq, the Revenge Brigade kidnaped Christian Science Monitor journalist Jill Carroll and murdered her translator. Yesterday, the Christian Science Monitor released the following update.
View ArticleBill Napoli has been santorumed
The women of the internet have spoken. Bill Napoli has been google bombed back to the Stone Age. You remember Bill Napoli, the South Dakota senator and general jackass who when asked what sort of case...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do da Dubya limbo
With Truthout's Jason Leopold reporting on Karl Rove's imminent indictment, I'm wondering: how low can Dubya go?<center></center> We all know that there is a diamond-hard core of Bush...
View ArticleYes, Virginia, there will be a Fitzmas (with poll)
With apologies to The New York Sun.Dear Hobbitfoot---I am 8 years old. Some of my wingnut friends say there will be no Fitzmas this year. Some even say there is no Fitz! Papa says, 'If you see it in...
View ArticleI love the smell of hate mail in the morning
I'm not primarily a political blogger. I'd much rather talk about food, sex, writing, and medicine. But yesterday, one of my political posts must have raised someone's hackles. I share this with you in...
View ArticleMasturGate
ABC News has full text of Rep. Mark Foley's IM exchange with the unidentified 16-year-old male page. Details include Foley questioning the 16-year-old about how often he masturbates, what technique he...
View ArticleDoctors, sausage-making, and killing hope
My wife asked me to post this under my account. I've cross-posted her essay at Balls and Walnuts. Here she is. Yummy bratwurst: you know you love it. But do you really want to know what goes into that...
View ArticleCancer cures and the evil of false hope
This dicholoroacetate (DCA) story keeps dogging me. A cheap drug which kills all cancers! But Big Pharma won’t let the cat out of the bag, because it’ll kill their billion-dollar profits! Does a story...
View ArticleMSNBC: Richard Wolffe needs a new refrain
I'm watching Countdown on MSNBC with Alison Stewart (yup, Keith Olbermann is on vacation) and Richard Wolffe is at it again. I am so very sick of this guy.
View ArticleScarborough's 180 on John Edwards: wha' happened? w/poll
Hmm.On April 26, Joe Scarborough said,Damn. John Edwards just gave a fantastic closing argument. It was the most human moment of the debate and is the type of snapshot of a candidate's soul that moves...
View ArticleWhat can I eat?
mcjoan's post from last week about melamine contamination made me start fretting. I'm my family's chef. What should I feed them?I'm worrying about melamine in our chicken and pork, mercury in our...
View ArticleFilibuster phobia: WTF?
Since November, 2006, the Senate has been stymied several times due to its failure to achieve the 60 votes required for cloture. We've seen this most recently with the immigration bill, and of course...
View ArticleMusic for the Resistance
I'm not sure which is more depressing: that the House and Senate caved to White House intimidation over the "need" for broader domestic surveillance powers, or that none of my patients -- including a...
View ArticleKO, what is your problem with Edwards?
On MSNBC a little while ago, Keith Olbermann to Chuck Todd (NBC News Political Director):I'm not disagreeing with the conventional wisdom about John Edwards, but explain, go through it, walk us through...
View ArticleER wait times getting longer
A study released today in the online journal Health Affairs demonstrates that the time it takes for a patient to see an emergency physician has increased significantly between 1997 and 2004 (Waits To...
View ArticleSFB: Tiramisu
In recent weeks, I've gained, then lost, then regained my TU status, and it's all very mysterious to me. But I gather it has something to do with getting recommendations.I rarely have insightful things...
View ArticleI just met an Obamican
Maybe I'm too cynical, but when Obama quipped that Republicans were whispering their support to him, I thought, "Yeah, sure. Maybe one or two. But is it a movement?"This morning, though, one of my...
View ArticleSFB: Bread Pudding Souffle
Simple.Beautiful.Delicious.And completely uncommitted to either Presidential candidate. (The bread pudding that is, not me. If the bread pudding has chosen sides, he isn't talking.)
View ArticleSunday Food Blog: Farsumauro
Farsumauro: such a lovely, exotic-sounding name for a dish, no? If you don't know what it is, you probably clicked over to find out. And if I had called it what it is, you would have run the other...
View ArticleSunday Food Blog: Focaccia
Focaccia is a no-knead Italian quick bread which should be a part of everyone's repertoire. You'll need a few toys to make this one sing -- ideally, a four-cup and a one-cup measure, a good mixer or a...
View ArticleNot your typical political diary.
Another in my series of pointless non-candidate diaries designed to give y'all a break from Hillarobamamania.This is a story about a revelation. Not one of those "LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER" revelations;...
View ArticleAn American dream
Note: I've been posting diaries, one per week, to offer some distraction from the usual political shout-fests. I have political views, of course, but I can't often organize them into coherent posts....
View ArticleHillary is Jesus and other hyperbolic metaphors (poll!)
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama yesterday. Richardson, twice appointed to high level positions under President Clinton, was thought to be firmly in the Clinton camp. How did...
View ArticleTeh ultimate vice presidential candidate pool
You've read otherdiarists'lists, their analyses, their inanities.But you haven't read mine.
View Articlee-publishing 101
On my fortieth birthday, I decided to reinvent myself as a novelist. Some guys buy Harley-Davidson Duo-Glides, some go on walkabout in Thailand, some do Esalen; I spent my midlife crisis reading John...
View Articlee-publishing: the nuts & bolts
You've worked on your masterpiece for the last three years: writing, editing, sleeping on it, taking an extended break for BioShock Infinite, more polishing, taking occasional breaks to work on your...
View ArticleHow to keep your e-book from wallowing in obscurity
Now, that is a hopeful title. More honest would have been, How do I keep my e-book from wallowing in obscurity? -- because that's what my e-book is doing. In this diary, I'm going to discuss promotion:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It's okay to say, "I love you."
Of course I never realized this would be the last photo we would take as a family. Karen died yesterday after a sudden and unexpected illness.
View Article
