The Thinker--or Just Sitting Around?

I've wondered about Rodin's famous sculpture. Is he engaged in deep thought or sitting around wasting time? And why isn't he wearing pants? I ask the same of myself. Here we comment on well, mostly politics. Or we may just sit! If you like it, tell a friend. If not, tell us, but please read the GROUND RULES before you do.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Iraq-No-Phobia

Still feeling that ol' Democrat disgust. I would especially like to take the junior senators from Illinois and New York out behind the w...

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Coast Guard, they're the boat guys right? Life jackets, no drinkin' on the boat?

Fearless Leader addressed the graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy. Guess what--SEPTEMBER THE ELEVENTH!! In this war, we face a bruta...

New and...Improved?

Stuff you can't make up: Top U.S. commanders and diplomats in Iraq are completing a far-reaching campaign plan for a new U.S. strategy H...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

I belong to no organized political party

I'm (ashamed to be) a Democrat. The cave on Iraq funding is so humiliating. The Democratic Congress was elected to stop the madness, and...

E-mailed to the Speaker of the House...

Humbly submitted by your esteemed Zinfandelfan to Nancy Pelosi's website (www.speaker.gov): It is being reported in conflicting fashion ...

Monday, May 21, 2007

The man from Plains

In November 1976, at the ATO house in Greencastle, Indiana, Tom Garrison invited me and my new girlfriend (I wonder what ever happened to he...

On teaching--and Iraq

I took my 13-year old for one of his regularly-scheduled cheap haircuts. In the line in front of me was a young man, military cut and lean a...

Places to go, pictures to take

So tomorrow morning I'm off for a week or so in sunny middle of frackin' nowhere New Mexico. City of Rocks State Park, to be exact....

Sunday, May 20, 2007

And in this corner...

From today's letters to the editor: When will we admit that, if and when we abandon Iraq, we are still at war? How foolish to alert the...

Friday, May 18, 2007

The long and winding road

Garrison Keillor wrote The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wa...

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Three final notes

Today has been chock full of noteworthy stories, but I don't want to have too many posts, so let me combine three into one final post fo...

Torture Boy gets pwnd!

Fifty-six members of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez' graduation class from Harvard Law School (1982) took out a full-page a...

How you can tell when you've found our house

Should you ever be driving along, looking for Magooland, you will know you've found it when you see this in our window:

The Impeachables

The Liar In Chief at today's joint press conference with outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair: "Son, we live in a world that ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Move this pragmatist into the "Impeach Now" column

YES, there were ample grounds for impeachment before, and yes, I thought the effort would be futile and frustrating. The wiretapping-Ashcrof...

I don't want RR's head to explode

But after reading his post below, read the following , perhaps the only time John Ashcroft came out as a sympathetic figure in his life. Fro...

OK -- I'm Convinced..... It's Time to IMPEACH

I have been one poor correspondent over these months since the last election cycle. After all, the wicked witches running the congress had b...

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Hell just got a lot more unpleasant

Rev. Jerry Falwell dead at 73

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Happy Mother's Day!

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Ahhh...Catholicism

Y'know, Schmidlap had the right idea abandoning this religion. Come to think of it, I'm knee-deep in doing the same thing, too. So...

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