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Please, before you go on, take a minute to read the Downing Street Memo and a little historical context.
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In case you haven’t noticed this wasn’t and isn’t news. The British government has not denied the validity of the memo. These are impeachable offenses and there should rightly be an independent investigation. [...]

Vice President Dick Cheney, the most hawkish of the hawks, the man who made Halliburton a household name, lorded over the meetings that lead to this administration’s current energy “policy” (hydrogen cars, clean coal, nukular power, oh my!), the war profiteer extraordinaire, and the man who thinks we treat everyone just hunky dory down at [...]

I’ve added my del.icio.us links feed to the sidebar using the Wordpress RSS Link List Plugin. If you’re not familiar with delicious (I’ll drop the dots for now) it’s a social bookmarking site. Basically it allows you to store your bookmarks (or Favorites) on the site, as well as tag them based on [...]

some thoughts on reading

I don’t read it nearly as much as I should, but if you’re looking for informed, well-reasoned, and unbiased commentary regarding the Bush administration’s illegal war in Iraq, Prof. Juan Cole from the University of Michigan’s Informed Comment is about the best source out there. Today he’s written a long post about the current [...]

Everyone else does it. I might as well too. Here’s my random 10 Friday tracks. This playlist was randomly generated by Rhapsody based on my “recent listening history”:

Procul Harum – Simple Sister*
Joshua Redman – Molten Soul
Joe Henderson – Boto
Faust – Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux
Joe Lovano Nonet – Tadd’s [...]

I’ve written before about my love for Rhapsody, and before that Napster. I listen to music virtually all day long so having a large catalog of different records to listen to is very important. Rhapsody fulfills that wish as well as providing a legal conduit to the music. Yahoo, continuing its goal [...]

Unfortunately all I’ve got to work with is Paint.NET. But I managed to put something ok together and now we’ve got Homer back on the page. Things are starting to fall in place. It’s all happening.
G. Love once said “Caught a chill vibe/Orange juice in my ride/Wawa’s to the right/They got a beverage [...]

Expecting to spend much of the night tweaking WordPress, reformatting old posts, and trying to come up with some semblance of a unique theme for the site, I decided to try out the new taqueria in the neighborhood. Owned by the same folks who started my favorite restaurant in the neighborhood, Taco Riendo is [...]

I’ve moved the site over to WordPress from the yuck that was Blogger. Bear with me while I work everything out. I’ve moved the content from the old site over but there’s plenty of work left to do.