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"The head of a California company hired by the U.S. government to help build a fence along the Southwest border to curb the flow of ill...

here . Summary of Bush Policy Goals, from day 1: Domestic: rig the election system for the 40 years Foreign: grab the oil It was all ...

Turns this: Into this: (kudos to Rising Hegemon )

Read it and weep, sinners . At least FSM devotees are exempt (for now).

I get a lot of Annual Meeting notices for various companies in which we hold stock. I've managed to reduce the stacks of glossy paper r...

One of the best segments in Robert Greenwald's film "OutFoxed" demonstrated the insidious use of the phrase "Some people ...

oops . Saturday morning, in a familiar place. Last night was the first real full-night's sleep in many days. I appreciated being in dif...

Last day of this trip. In my anonymous motel room in Kissimmee. It is sunrise. This is the 3rd and final day of these meetings, which have...

Well, Joe and Shirley went to bed, but since my body is still on West Coast time, I get to stay up blogging, from their guest bedroom near T...

Jeez . I guess they were counting on the Pardon process to get everyone off the hook, AGAIN .

When Karen and I got home last night, after a very nice evening eating tapas and drinking wine with good friends downtown, we were surprised...

A sentence from his WikiPedia entry says it all: "He sought to consolidate royal power and crush domestic factions." Now who does...

...on the road to Supreme Court nominee? Greg Palast has the tale . At least these folks are consistent.

Listening to the Ed Schulz radio show this afternoon, there was yet another republican troll, parroting the whine 'but Clinton brought i...

More on ethanol. Here 's another example of wrong-headedness. Best metaphor in the article: buying carbon-emission credits is the same...

Just finished reading ' Twilight in the Desert '. It's a blood-chilling, spine-tingling mystery, full of genuine horror, with e...

Last December, I wrote out a check to the US Treasury, to cover a quarterly SE tax-payment. Unfortunately, due to inattention on my part, m...

Karen's cousin, Steve, raved about it, and I was curious, given all the Oscar nominations, so I went this afternoon. I must say that, sq...

That word, if you don't know it, has been incredibly important to your life. It's the largest oilfield in Saudi Arabia, indeed, in t...

votes cast for American Idol. what's wrong with this picture - let me count the ways.