1) In honor of karl rove's recent departure from the White House, i bring you this old clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxcuVlCuX9Y

2) I am sick, and therefore stayed home from work today. I made fun of Kris for not realizing I was home at 1pm (not a usual weekday occurrence)

3) We are starting a house D&D game. Like some sort of extreme ( Read more... )

1) I am not happy with the Honorable Roy Blunt Jr. of Missouri. Tying benchmarks of progress in Iraq to NON-MILITARY AID ( Read more... )

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Hey y'all,

Evan Tucker and I are both old men. To celebrate the fact that we're still alive and kicking, we would like to have a joint birthday party. When would be good? We were thinking maybe the weekend of March 9th. Does this work for people?

discuss among yourselves...

peace,
John

By Mark Kinver
Science and nature reporter, BBC News ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGf9Hc-KpAA

here's some quotes (from AFSCME):

Negroes are almost entirely a working people. There are pitifully few Negro millionaires, and few Negro employers. Our needs are identical with labor's needs - decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education ( Read more... )

Here's a story that came about recently that I've been thinking about.

On Tuesday, Federal officials canceled an $877.5 million contract with the California-based firm VaxGen, which was supposed to produce a new Anthrax vaccine. The new product was supposed to be the centerpiece of the Bush Administration's $5.9 billion "Project Bioshield". The ( Read more... )