I was reading in The Week about how sales of Ayn Rand's books are experiencing another spike as they have been known to do in times of leftish leanings of the federal government.  I have dipped briefly in the poisonous waters of her Objectivism and so of course such news is chilling to my soul.

The philosophy is based on the synthesis of an ( Read more... )

I think Glenn Greenwald goes over all of it pretty well here.

So for a long time, we SUSPECTED that top US officials deliberately tortured prisoners in flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention, but now we have literal proof that they did.  I can't just sit here any more and watch this.  Obama's reaction has been so tepid and careful I am forced ( Read more... )

I happened to wander into Columbia's main campus around 11:30 am, after I left the 8th graders to their own assembly back at the school where I student teach.  In front of the library they had set up a Jumbotron and were handing out free hot chocolate.

For some reason they set the jumbotron up facing the north side of the campus, meaning that to ( Read more... )

So... as far as I'm concerned, one of the most crucial issues coming up for our hero Obama is going to be holding the previous failed administration responsible for all the times that they broke the law and made us look bad.

I think from my previous posts many of you should be aware of the case to be made that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld all broke ( Read more... )

I haven't had anything to post on here in a pretty long time.  Last entry was my exhortation to all readers (all six of you) to sign DK's petition to ask congress to help him begin the process of impeaching our criminal syndicate of a government, all the way back on July 30th, which I think was right before Michelle and I got to Yellowstone.  So ( Read more... )

Everyone--

I guess I'm trying to get this out to as many people as possible because I think it's important, and LJ is one way I can reach at least a few people I can't otherwise.

Dennis Kucinich is continuing his attempts to persuade Congress to impeach President Bush.  He has posted the articles of impeachment on his website, which outline all the ( Read more... )

Today Michelle and I are leaving on our trip!

For those of you who would like to watch it as it unfolds instead of lamely twiddling your thumbs at home waiting for us to come tell you how it all went down... visit our vacation blog!  (Yeah, we are now *that couple.*)

Yes, the new 21st century photo slideshow, the vacation blog allows us to bother you ( Read more... )

Has anybody ever heard of this before?  I think it is so cool.

Alan W. Pollack's Notes on the Beatles

He basically has posted here a very in-depth analysis of every Beatles tune in existence, from every angle and aspect you could think of.  I'm bookmarking it and visiting it intermittently whenever I get a Beatles song stuck in my head from now on :)

Well, it's finally happening.

Dennis Kucinich has finally been the only guy ballsy enough to take what I view as a fully necessary step for the preservation of our democracy.  (Although this guy gets credit too.)

If you don't feel like clicking, I'm talking about impeachment.  Following is a copy of the email I got from the Congressman people (I've ( Read more... )

Uh oh, Lucas is breaking radio silence.  Something must really be up.

I won't make you guess.  It's Barack Obama.  I was really proud of him after the "race speech," when he deftly maneuvered himself into a very positive, proactive, and most importantly nuanced position on the comments of Rev. Wright that were being sound-bited and played over and ( Read more... )