No no no no no.  This is another red herring.  Can we live in the present please?  If you have a 2000 or 2004 presidential election bumper sticker on your car, do us all a favor and go scrape it off.  Any residual smugness or bitterness you feel is completely beside the point.  We have enough problems right now, no matter whom you voted for in ( Read more... )

O if I had an axe to grind
I'd grind it fine
I'd grind it blind
O if I had an axe to grind
I'd grind it all day long

Imagine Goofy the cartoon dog outside his shack in the woods, chortling this ditty to himself as he sharpens his axe on a big stone grinding wheel, the sparks flying off as the axe makes little chittering noises.  He's going to cut ( Read more... )

So, did you catch me in my lie? In my first post, I said I would back up my rants with facts, but the post itself contained a rant that I did not justify, beginning with "In a certain hypothetical country, the following could happen."

OK, I needed a focus and a starting place. Let's start there. My first unsubstantiated statement was "A foreign ( Read more... )

I'm pretty new to blogging and to LiveJournal, but I can spell RSS and almost know what it is. If you want an RSS feed of this blog, go to:

http://isthismyamerica.livejournal.com/data/rss

This is my Speaker's Corner. This is my soap box. This is my rainbow wig and Bible verse. This is my chance to get a file opened on me if I don't have one already. This is my opportunity to be arrested without charge and convicted without evidence. This is the first motion of my last gasp. This is the least I can do while I wonder how to do more.

I ( Read more... )