I just read part of an interesting discussion of history, and in particular, how to teach it. If you go to the link, read the comments. That's where the interesting discussion is ( Read more... )

Some time earlier this week, Rudy Guiliani apparently hauled off and kicked one of his Iowa supporters in the nuts.Not literally of course, but it might have been better if he had. He actually got with a modest Iowa farmer who had donated to his campaign and arranged for the man and his sickly wife to host a campaign rally at his farm. It was all ( Read more... )

There are new pictures at my flickr account.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7277416@N07/

A couple of them are below the cut.

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Bill O'Reilly accomplishes the impossible. He makes Geraldo Rivera look like a reasonable and responsible commentator on political issues.

Is this O'Reilly's "Have you at long last no sense of decency, sir" moment?

It's gotta sting when Geraldo Rivera makes you look bad.

These artists once graced my CD player quite regularly. Now they don't anymore, even though I haven't stopped liking them ( Read more... )

The Saints' storybook season is over ( Read more... )

I'm still here, just not doing much.

In my mind's idle moments recently, I've tried to compile the five greatest American rock and roll songwriters. This topic requires a lot of thought because several questions come to mind, first and foremost being how one defines "rock and roll". I decided that old blues and straight country did not count, but that folksy-rock did. The next ( Read more... )

People say we have to succeed in Iraq. People hearing people say "we have to succeed" ask, "Is it possible to succeed?" It's a good question, but it's not my question. I have a question that needs to be answered before we can even begin discussing whether it is possible to succeed in Iraq ( Read more... )

Four or five times a day, people come up to me at the pool hall or the oxygen bar and ask me, "Potted Plant (people really call me that), what do you think of Christmas displays on government property ( Read more... )