Myra's at the wheel and I'm strapped to the passenger seat, watching the towns pass by us and letting my mind wander. Every once in a while one of us will open the window a crack, and that's the signal for both of us to smoke a cigarette. I blame the boredom and monotony of traveling, but it's a pretty flimsy excuse for me to be smoking again. ( Read more... )

When Myra first asked me to go on the road with her, I went over to my friend Pete's house to see if I could borrow some of his CDs and mix tapes for the trip. When I got to Pete's house, however, he was sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, bruised and dirty, with a smoking pile of rubble behind him where his house used to be. I hadn't heard ( Read more... )

"Democrat leaders' talk of censure and impeachment isn't about the law or the president doing anything wrong. It's about the fact that Democrat leaders don't want America to fight the War on Terror with every tool in our arsenal."
-- RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman

One of the things I like about being a waiter is that occassionally a customer will give me a little boost in my self esteem. It doesn't happen often, but it happens frequently enough that I can coast from incident to incident feeling cool and confident as I drift in and out of the tables, filling coffees and taking orders. Sometimes a cute girl ( Read more... )

Two Iraqi women whose husbands and children were killed by US troops during the Iraq war have been refused entry into the United States for a speaking tour. The women were invited to the US for peace events surrounding international women’s by the human rights group Global Exchange and the women’s peace group CODEPINK.

In a piece of painful irony ( Read more... )

I just filed my taxes. In a couple of weeks I will be a rich man. (Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum ( Read more... )

Just to keep the record straight, Dick Cheney shot a man in the face this weekend and then tried to cover it up.

That is all.

I am horrible at moving. I'm overlapping two rents for 15 days so that I can slowly transition from one apartment to the other, and already on day 12 I haven't moved anything. Day 14 and 15 will probably be horrible and hectic.

Alito's first Supreme Court vote was to block an execution in Missouri. The vote was 6-3, with Scalia, Thomas, and (surprise!) Roberts in the minority. Perhaps our new justice is merely demonstrating that he is pro-life across the board, but this guy is hoping against hope for David Souter Jr.

The other day Siri called me from India. After about five minutes it dawned on me that she was on the opposite side of the world and we were talking to each other, with no time lag or anything. Take THAT, Marco Polo! As I was telling her, it also dawned on me that the NSA was probably listening in on my overseas call. I mentioned this to Siri, and ( Read more... )