Tag Archives: Congress

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

Dancing (collaborating?) With the Devil

A post by Nancy Watz­man, keeps us aware of the Health Care Lobb­yists Part­ying and Fun­drai­sing with Con­gress this Week
For those who haven’t been to the site, the Sun­light Foun­da­tion has a Foriegn Policy Infleuence Trac­ker and a Visua­li­za­tion of the Health­care Lobb­yist Com­plex
Michael Moore (on Leno last night), on his film,

Bearing False Witness, The Abstinence Only Lobby

I apo­lo­gize, to myself for the most part, for not being timely on this. I lost my head on my wor­king vaca­tion, was­ting my free time ens­con­ced in Middle English prose, and it slip­ped my mind.
The hole in the head gang, other­wise known as the Natio­nal Abs­ti­nence Edu­ca­tion Asso­cia­tion, lob­bied Con­gress today to encou­rage con­ti­nua­tion of

Summer in the City

I’m sit­ting here in what is more like a desert than a study/den, with the air con­di­tio­ning not wor­king due to something called a bro­ken capa­ci­tor. At least that is what a friend told me as he star­ted the blade of the unit with a large long metal stick, then gave me the name of