135,000 dead and counting. nearly 80,000 in indonesia alone. donate money here. please. choose “International Response Fund.” at 1 a.m. GMT last sunday, a gigantic earthquake (magnitude 9.0) struck deep under the Indian Ocean, setting off tsunamis that proceeded to…

On October 4, 2004, President Bush signed the Working Families Tax Relief Act, and turned it into a political tool by signing it not at the White House, where bills are typically signed, but by making a public spectacle in…

Get that abortion you’ve always wanted. Drink a nice clean glass of water. Cash your social security check. See a doctor of your own choosing. Spend quality time with your draft-age child Visit Syria, or any foreign country for that…

Here are some photos of new things around the house. These new things consist mainly of a cat and a couple of coats of new paint on the walls. The paint was planned; the cat, as they say, was a…

a woman in plano killed her 11-month-old baby by cutting off her arms people like paris hilton exist you can purchase, as a gift or for your own viewing pleasure, a large sculpture of an American bald eagle that not…

You thought Neko was cute… how about THIS cat?! Check out the little guy with the black fur on the right. This is Loki, the Kitten of Mischief and Fire.

As Maureen Dowd said, “Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still vice president?”

In a return email to Brett in reference to the one mentioned below, here are my thoughts: I can see that “the good of the whole” is a slippery slope. but i think what i’m talking about is less about…

On the topic of changing the electoral system, and if we didn’t start trying to change things after what happened in 2000, when are we going to change them: I actually think that this is an even better time than…

In an e-mail, Brett made some good points about the way our system of government should work, including “Until we come back to or arrive at the position that people make decisions because they think they are doing what’s right…