Category Archives: News

LOCAL, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL, AND MINE

RIP Jon Swift

When I began blog­ging in college I read a lot of poli­ti­cal blogs, and Jon Swift’s was one of the bet­ter sati­res out there.

Jon Swift whose real name (unk­nown to many but known to some), was Al Wei­sel, the “rea­so­na­ble con­ser­va­tive who liked to write about poli­tics and cul­ture”, the free­lance wri­ters, co-author

Conversation With Myself

Bat­ting a head con­ti­nually against anything cau­ses the brain to waf­fle back and forth inside the skull. This can cause brui­sing, and repea­ted brui­sing can cause brain damage. I get it. What I’m not clear on is why we are having con­gres­sio­nal hea­rings about the situa­tion.
We strug­gle with making amend­ments to pre­vent rapists from

Yanking My Chain This Week

Not even a public option here, des­pite from 2000 to 2007, pro­fits at the 10 lar­gest publicly-traded health insu­rance com­pa­nies went up 428 per­cent. CEOs at these com­pa­nies made an ave­rage of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insu­rance pre­miums have more than dou­bled  —  a rate three times fas­ter than wage

Freedom Of Speech Compensates for Seldom Used the Freedom of Thought, and Other Expostulations

My Tues­day tank­ful of tid­bits and anno­yan­ces.
1. Thanks to an anony­mous tips­ter, who for some unk­nown rea­son was loo­king up wonderlandornot/images, I dis­co­ve­red my old Flickr account, tit­led won­der­lan­dor­not. The con­tents are mea­ger  —   a cou­ple of shots from Oahu in 2006. I can’t access the account, because it is old, hasn’t been uti­li­zed in