I'll be offline for about 24 hours as I catch a plane (or several) to get me from Madison, WI (my normal haunts) to San Antonio, TX. I work for the Society for the Study of Reproduction (www.SSR.org) and their 40th Annual Meeting is down there, beginning tomorrow and going through Wednesday. I'll be heading up the A/V computer network for the over ( Read more... )

If you've ever wanted weather information online and wanted to avoid all the Flash crap and advertisements that dominate the Weather Channel's weather.com, I highly suggest going to www.weather.gov for the official National Weather Service page.

That said, I was amused when I looked at the forecast for where I live today:


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Well, there have been a lot of changes in this past year.  As happens each year, many folks have found their span on this world has come to an end.  Two of those in particular caught my attention.  This year we have lost James Brown and Don Knotts.


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As of this posting, the Democratic Party has not lost one incumbent seat in the House, nor one incumbent seat in the Senate, nor ONE incumbent Gubernatorial seat.  All that, while gaining roughly 30 House seats from the Republicans, at least 4 Senate Seats (with a chance of up to 6 as of this moment, giving the Democrats the Senate majority), and ( Read more... )

This is it.

It's time to get up and go to vote.  I know, if you've paid attention to them, that the polls show that in the national races, the Democratic Party is coming out on top.  That means nothing.  For just a moment, let's put aside the idea of crooked voting procedures that can steal votes away from the candidate of your choice and give those ( Read more... )

That moderate viewpoint has just been shown to be WAY too generous of us.  A memo, dated October 25th, 2006 shows a VAST array of some of the top-spending advertisers have stated that they will not allow their ads to be aired on Air America, thus robbing it of its attractiveness to stations that want to run AAR programming.

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Elaine Boosler (comedian) is substituting this week for one of my favorite liberal talk show hosts, Stephanie Miller.  She just said something that I laughed hard at and I thought I should share it ( Read more... )

The below is a letter I sent to comments@airamericaradio.com, regarding Mike Malloy's recent firing:

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Dear Air America Radio,

I am in mourning over the inexcusably incompetent handling of the Mike Malloy situation.  Malloy understood that things were tenuous a month ago.  He was trying to prepare us ( Read more... )