Oh, you know, Dick Cheney's 9th cousin once removed.

Even the liberal media says so.

I particularly like how the conclusion, "So the fact of their genealogical relationship, whatever its political symbolism, is genetically meaningless," is subtly implying that the political significance of it is also "meaningless" because the genetic connection ( Read more... )

If you supposedly have a gene for breast cancer, is it logical to have a preventative mastectomy?

( Rant )

Powerful, evil, decrepit senator teams up with a hot young brunette from the boonies:

Palpatine/Amidala '08!

It's a story of state rights v. federal power...

An interesting editorial by then New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, former New York State Attorney General, published in the Washington Post this past February, just one month prior to his resignation.

Cause for political assassination? Someone seems to think so..

Here is an article from the Economist about an issue significant to every one of us every day: our food supply. The article is over-simplified, but it shows [at least to me] how unlikely food reform will be as long as it is pets who are the ones suffering, unfortunately. People aren't looking for the broader picture, generally. Plus, I want to ( Read more... )

The chief source--and, on many matters the only source--of information about what happened on the islands after Columbus came is Bartolome de las Casas, who, as a young priest, participated in the conquest of Cuba. ...he describes the Indians. ... They are not completely peaceful, because they do battle from time to time with other tribes, but ( Read more... )

We were watching Obama's acceptance speech, in a half-interested way. Some things stood out, though. For example, he mentioned protecting Israel as a goal of our foreign policy in the middle east & the terror war thing.

Uhhh.... excuse me? Since when the fuck is it our responsibility to completely take care of some asshole little country that ( Read more... )

The helicopters flying over parts of Denver tonight [yesterday] are part of a U.S. Department of Justice training exercise, according to Denver police ( Read more... )

A year ago I made a mistake. Maybe I was feeling optimistic, I remember it was especially sunny and warm that day, and I'm guessing it was still somewhat early in the spring; perhaps I was just the one born that minute. As I was walking down the 16th Street Mall on my way back to my office in Republic Plaza from lunch I stopped and gave my name, ( Read more... )