When you see a story like this, often your first reaction might be a chuckle, maybe a need to pass it on to someone who might get a kick out of it. Sure, why not? But when the news out of Florida has been so sinister this year, you sort of have to think that [...]

Here is a page of 50 facts about the US and nuclear weapons that is both educational and rather disconcerting. #44 is quite a little heebie-jeebie generator. Brought to you by the Brookings Institution.

Yep, it snowed some more. Looks like maybe three inches, maybe four, I can’t tell. I’m ensconced in bed with the laptop, space heater at my side, not wanting to think about getting out of the driveway tomorrow morning. I could consider getting away with not going in, except Katie, one of my housemates, is [...]

This article at the Willamette Week Online describes beautifully why I detest Bush and all the busy-body conservatives around the country who feel they have the authority to do what they want to you or tell you how to behave. In short, a Portland police officer was prosecuted on the basis of evidence produced by [...]

My mother showed me her new favorite book over Christmas, Extraordinary Chickens, a photo book of (wouldn’t you know) chickens. Rather a funny book, in its way. Just coincidental that she showed me that a few days ago, and I ran across this today. It’s a chicken sort of world.

Here is an article about how Bush’s campaign to eradicate good science, as also seen in this previously linked item, is well underway. (Note: Both links require subscription, but they’re free.) The right wing is very aware that language is powerful, and that saying an idea gives it power, and repeating it gives it more. [...]

So I flew back to Mass yesterday evening: got a late flight out to spend the bulk of the day with the family, and got into Providence airport around 11:30. Got my lightly-iced car out of hock at the airport and was on the road by midnight.

The house currently sleeps about 80: my parents, my sisters and their families, and everyone’s dogs, which total five but with the energy of many more. I am spending my holidays on the couch in my Dad’s office. I shall be spending my day wrapping presents for the kids, missing my own kids, and trying [...]

So I went to a party the other night. Very nice people, welcoming, happy to see you, charming. Their house on the water was nice, they had good art on the walls, and they were very hospitable. It being the holidays, the conversation quickly started with travel, and how much everyone was currently doing, and [...]

Wow, Kel got me straightened out on a path problem I was having, and dropped a big clue about deciphering CSS, and I’ve managed to figure out quite a bit in the last few hours. But there’s one problem: the Calendar section needs to be on the right, and I can’t figure out how to [...]