Hi everyone

I had a snarky first post all queued up but then blogger realized it was hungry. First it ate my fonts, then the paragraph format, then the links, and finally my browser. I think it’s being stern early on so later on down the road it can ease up. Anyway, it’s late and I’ve been doing far...

The Week in Preview – Overdue Thanks and Things to Come

On August 12, 2003, playing around with a recently discovered free tool found on these here internets, I put up my first blog post without a clue as to what it was, where it would lead, or the impact it would have on my life and the lives of countless others. Nearly four years later I have seen this space...

Happy Birthday David

Just a quick note to say Happy Birthday to my Costa Rican blog buddy David at In Search of Utopia. As my grandfather always says, Cento anni!

Massage With Quotation Marks

*sigh* These Bushies need to slow the hell down. I’m serious, my poor fingers feel like they’re going to fall off trying to keep up with all the scandal going on. The latest scandal in the mill? Deputy Secretary of State, Randall Tobias resigning because he used an escort service currently...

So Effective

HT to Kevin Drum It’s a pretty common joke that ties the War on Terror in its effectiveness to the War on Drugs, the implied punchline being that they just don’t work. Problem is, this is where the joke stops being funny. While Condi and Co. considered withholding or delaying the report (not the...