"One of the benefits of living with a wide variety of people is the exposure to totally different experiences at any time of the day or night. For example, Steve and I just had a twenty minute conversation about MSG and how it actually affects people. I learned that one of the derivatives of MSG poisoning is "Chinese restaurant syndrome", an ( Read more... )

As much as it will matter, when the aliens or Jesus or who- or whatever come down and pass Judgement on the planet ( Read more... )

For those of us that, like me, are forgetful or uncreative ( Read more... )

"The President's mother, Barbara Bush, donated tax-deductible money to the Katrina Relief after the flood. And now we find out that it was with specific instructions that the money be spent for educational software owned by her son Neil. Because who can forget those tragic images of the poor black people on rooftops in New Orleans holding up signs ( Read more... )

Here's your Brit poem, chief ( Read more... )

I'm off to England, Scotland, and Ireland for a week. If you'd like inexpensive tcotchkes, postcards, or other detrius, let me know and leave me an address if necessary. Have a great week!

Full update on Canada to come...I need some time to process.

I think this is the logical end to the discussion we've been having about executive power, no?  The right to make judgements about who deserves to live and die independent of due process of law certainly smacks of claiming the divine right to me ( Read more... )

From a Reuters article entitled "Lawmakers seek review of eavesdropping rules", a quote from your friend and mine, Senator John Kerry ( Read more... )

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