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America slides deeper into fascism every day (see the House of Representatives spending a day debating whether to censure the NY Times for ...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted my well-reasoned-and-inciteful opinion that Ron Howard is a pedestrian film-maker, whose work can (and shoul...

We arrived late Saturday night, after 20 hours of travelling, from Casablanca. It was a great trip, and I will post some stories and photos ...

A cloudy, cool Saturday morning in Portland, and I am sitting, listening to music, and drinking coffee. In familiar surroundings, our dinin...

Here's an image from Google Earth, showing the places we're heading to. Madrid -> Toledo -> Cordoba -> Granada -> Gibral...

This has been making the rounds on the Internet for a while, but it's amusing if you've never seen it. It's a 1950's 'I...

So, the outcome of the Busby/Bilbray election is officially ' in doubt' . Good. Speaking as a paranoid, if I were going to steal an...

Sunny and mild in Portland. After the big rains of the past couple of weeks, the trees, shrubs (and weeds) are bursting with vibrant, green ...

It just hit me a couple of minutes ago. What is the logical outcome of these apocalyptic times? Two words, from the '80s: Nuclear Winte...

Whenever the Right makes these moral issues front-and-center, your pocket is about to picked again. Watch closely as, without the fanfare, ...

Just watched the video, from ABC's web site. Gore pretty skillfully deflected the more consciously inflammatory questions from Stephano...

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As you may know, we are leaving on June 10th for two weeks in Spain and Morocco. A friend was just over, and, as she was leaving, she handed...

There was recently a flurry of stories about a new poll, that rated W as among the worst Presidents in history. That's no surprise to th...

Yes, I should be starting to pack for Spain, or I should be reading my library book 'Python Programming for Win32', or I should be d...

...about Web site design . I came across this while doing research on web-development tools using Python (which may be my next big project -...

Big deal. As someone who worked for Enron, I remembering seeing the Insider Trading reports on Yahoo!, that showed those two, Lou Pai, and t...

Linked to in a casual comment in a blog - amazingly well done.

Here is Tom Delay's web site, where he urges his supporters to 'get involved' (i.e. send money) to aid his defense. Note the vi...

This is hysterical - I laughed and laughed. I suppose there is some danger that some visitors may not understand that it's a clever put...