Just a couple more observations about the primary before I pack it in for this season. Throughout the campaign I’ve heard people say there’s precious little difference between Obama and Clinton’s policy proposals. That may be true. But Clinton had only lately become a populist and champion of blue-collar America. And when it came to [...]

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I understand some people are asking if Dean’s support of earlier military action doesn’t make him, you know, some kind of hypocrite given his “anti-war” stance.
It’s as though you either have to be “for war” or “against war.” You know, if you’re for war, then any war that comes along, you’re bam-right-there-where’s-my-gun-sarge. And if you’re [...]

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My parents always taught me that you should pick your fights carefully, which advice I am ignoring right now. The fight over the memorial space in Manhattan has me bothered.
Not many people like the new design for various reasons. But not many people liked the World Trade Center when it was built either. But in [...]

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I’ve been getting some interesting blogspam recently, too. They used to just say something like “this is a good page.” But the faux comments are getting … weirder.
For example, one I deleted yesterday said this:
bq. Your page bears the necessary information for people were interested in the given question.
Um, thank you. Yes, that sounds [...]

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“Scott”:http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/archives/001942.html#001942 points me to Food Network chef Alton Brown’s take on Mad Cow disease. (It’s the entry of “December 26th”:http://www.altonbrown.com/pages/rants.html. Just as I have not discovered the joy of steamed mussels, Mr. Brown has not discovered the effective content management system. So no permalink for you.)
Alton says:
bq. That’s right, Mad Cow disease isn’t the beef [...]

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