Opens with a clip from Lyndon Johnson.

A simple song, well executed.

The Congressional Budget Office scored a senate healthcare bill and found that it cost 1.6 trillion over 10 years ( Read more... )

I would like to write here today to warn my fellow Americans of a grave threat to our institutions, values, and way of life.

I refer of course to the movement to allow homosexuals to divorce.

For all of human history, divorce has been a sacred breakup between a man and a woman. Homosexual breakups are a lifestyle choice. While the right to ( Read more... )

I bought a 2008 Kona Kapu. It's a steel framed road bike with nice Shimano parts (Ultegra) and weight of only 20 lbs. In contrast, my previous bike was a crappy mountain bike, a Giant Boulder (no joke) that weighed 28 pounds ( Read more... )

One of the things which has become clear about our country is that we need institutional change if we are to be able to have effective governmental institutions.

Institutional changes relate to the who and how of politics rather than the what. Deciding who gets to decide and how they get to decide had direct implications on what is decided.

I ( Read more... )

**possible Battlestar Galactica spoilers ( Read more... )

The results are in and California thinks Obama should be president, gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry, and farm animals should have certain basic rights. (like being able to move ( Read more... )

I find the whole search for housing to be a rather dreadful process. I have the money to afford a more expensive apartment than the one I have now, but doing so would put a crimp into other plans for this money (such as going back to school) at the same time, I don't want to move anywhere lower than where I am now (literally, I'm at the top of ( Read more... )

It has been 3 years since the last one, but once again I have been "kicked out" of a room-mate situation. My current room-mate is a neatness fanatic, and I left a mess in the kitchen when he came home from one of his trips. As this was not the first time this happened, he asked me to be out "at the end of September". While this specific incident ( Read more... )