Okay, now that President Bush has vetoed the spending bill that would have funded the troops etc etc-- here is the text of an e-mail that I sent (via the usual contact pages) to my representatives in Congress:

I've been in the military (and am still in the National Guard), and I've been to Iraq (served a tour in 2004). I supported the Democrat's ( Read more... )

I've been way overdue for posting here.  Right now, I still don't have the time, since I've got to be at work in about 40 minutes... but one can call this the promisary note.  There's a lot of things that have been occupying my thoughts over the last couple months.  It's been like, every time I read or listen to the news, I feel more and more ( Read more... )

Excerpted from The General’s Daughter, a book by Nelson DeMille. (I’ve removed expository text other than the dialogue itself and a couple of lines of dialogue that are relevant to the story but not to the general points about the UCMJ and Military Justice-the dialogue left is self-explanatory, I think. I’ve also inserted the character’s names in ( Read more... )

I find it astonishing that the defense lawyer in the 'Scooter' Libby perjury trial would ask us to believe that his client's memory was so poor that he routinely forgot entire meetings with reporters, statements made, subjects discussed, when testifying on these issues before Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's probe into the 'Valerie Plame' ( Read more... )

Self-assessments - On the strictly monogamous to totally polyamorous axis, what am I really? (this started with comments I made, excerpted from a Yahell chat I had with someone, where I got a little farther on figuring all this stuff out, and I’ve expanded on my original thoughts from there):

Right now, I'm what'cha might call "poly-optional"-- in ( Read more... )

Heard on NPR this morning (was listening to it while at work), that some groups and commentators were complaining about Barack Obama's lack of experience and saying that maybe that made him unfit to be a Presidential Candidate ( Read more... )

My New Year's Resolutions (such as they are) are no one else's business, they are mine and mine alone. They will not be posted publicly.

Yep, Saddam Hussein, may he rest in pieces, is DEAD. Yes, DEAD-- they killed the motherf***er this evening (USA time)-- and about damn time they did ( Read more... )

I haven't had a cigarette since 16 Dec 2006. No nicorette gum, patches, cigars, chewing tobacco, etc, either.... so-- I've been nicotine-free for 12 days and counting...

Yay, Me!

On December 10th, I saw an episode of “60 Minutes” that included a segment on Sergeant Joe Darby, who ‘blew the whistle’ on the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq around the end of 2003/beginning of 2004. I agreed with SGT Darby’s actions-I definitely believe he did the right thing. His own words sum it up, in the tail end of the segment (Cooper ( Read more... )