Month: January 2011

...is thousands of diaries at Daily Kos getting purged in the wake of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford (D-AZ). Gifford is a moderate, "blue dog" Democrat. She refused …

U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot and killed today at a constituent meeting at a Tucson grocery store.  At least eleven Eighteen other people were shot; their conditions, the identity...

... for Christians no less: Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as "shields" to Egypt's threatened Christian community. …

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) recently caught a lot of flak from liberals over his assertion that the Obama Administration is "one of the most corrupt administrations ever."  It goes …

For some of you, especially Verizon and AT&T customers, this might be greatest new ever.  Next week Verizon is holding a special event in New York to unveil the …

With our forced move to Movable Type 4 last month there were a few kinks that had to get worked out.  We fixed all the major ones, and have …

I thought about posting this later, but things are getting busy and I may not have time.  Not that it matters to most people, but I will be out …

(Alternate title: The Ceiling! The Ceiling! The Ceiling's On Fire!)OK, let's talk red ink. The US government is rapidly approaching its debt ceiling of 14.3 trillion dollars (let's write …

Most people, including many who call themselves Christians, Muslims, and so on, are actually atheists in practice.  Think about it.  If you really, truly, believed that God is real...

Random Thoughts is waxing eloquent on the efforts to remove "offensive words" from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: I've never agreed with banning the book because of Twain's use …