Hi, i'm a citizen. It appears that you've hijacked the Fourth Amendment. I'd like it back please.(I'd even be willing to trade you for the Second Amendment.)

From the NY times
After his fourth heart attack, Cheney quit smoking, began regular daily exercises for 30 minutes on a treadmill and said he began watching his diet.

It took 4 heart attacks for him to think,"huh, i must be doing something wrong... ." what does this guy eat?

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion ( Read more... )

You Are a New School Democrat


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Veteran's day always makes me somber and reflective. Six years ago today I was experiencing my Veteran's day at my grandfather's funeral. He was a veteran of two wars, WWII and Korea. I miss him. It was a typical cloudy, rainy day, which somehow seemed fitting. I can still picture the graveside service in intimate detail, the soldier playing taps, ( Read more... )

I just read a wonderful op-ed in the NY Times by Gary Hart, where he said, "Liberals are not against religion. They are against hypocrisy, exclusion and judgmentalism. They resist the notion that one side or the other possesses 'the truth' to the exclusion of others."

Until the philosophy which holds one race ( Read more... )

argh. can someone explain this to me? under a PRO CHOICE president (Clinton) the number of abortions per year went down, then went up again under the pro-life Bush admin. I'm guessing this is because of a lack of social programmes that help lower class women who find themselves in this situation. because of the decreasingly smaller "saftey net" ( Read more... )

"I have just reminded myself that if America had done nothing else in its entire history, it produced Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong and you folks, which is more than any other nation can boast."
as said by one of my Canadian friends.

I have found a new wonderfully fantastic word: zymurgy.

zymurgy:,the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling ( Read more... )

I don't "get" people.

Wake me up when the election is over, not Nov. 3rd over, when Chief Justice Rehnquist-drags-his-ass-back-to-the-bench-after-his-tracheotomy-to-break-the 4-4-tie over. I'll see y'all in mid to late December. No more political ads, no more attack ads, normal, consumer oriented, benign advertisements. Stick a fork in me, i'm