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December 3, 2007

This ran Monday as a letter to the editor of my local paper, The Valley News: To the editor, "Kids will eat healthy school food" declared an AP headline (November 27). Yes, unhealthy eating habits and the obesity epidemic can be remedied; as it turns out, our smart kids want to do the right thing…

December 3, 2007

This ran Monday as a letter to the editor of my local paper, The Valley News: To the editor, "Kids will eat healthy school food" declared an AP headline (November 27). Yes, unhealthy eating habits and the obesity epidemic can be remedied; as it turns out, our smart kids want to do the right thing…

November 30, 2007

“Tragic Plane Crash” — Okay, just give me one example, highly paid ace ABC News “journalists”, of a plane crash that’s not tragic? I mean, really, c’mon, now. After following Glenn Greenwald’s revelation of the sad but true saga of Joe Klein’s epic whopper and Time’s relentless lying-for-a-living and marvelling at the Washington Post’s recent…

November 26, 2007

As retold by Lea. {mp3}leapony{/mp3}

November 25, 2007

Finally managed to make some use of a) my free downloads from fotolia.com, and b) some of the better pieces of quality mail that has ended up in my inbox and/or spam filter over the past years. Enjoy — and, if you must, then click here to, well, enlarge it (hi-res pdf for prin/sharing).    

November 24, 2007

These are the kinds of dweebs that give environmentalists and the notion of a social conscience a bad reputation. Why on earth would you think that your giving up having kids would improve anything at all? It’s fine not to want kids, I can certainly respect that, but arguing that you don’t want kids them…

November 21, 2007

Canadian plot cunningly thwarted by homeland security. Yep, you can’t be too careful: even though it has a police escort and a pre-arranged border clearance, a savvy and well-trained homeland security guard just has to assume that an ambulance en route from Canada to the US with a patient in need of emergency angioplasty might…

November 21, 2007

Canadian plot cunningly thwarted by homeland security. Yep, you can’t be too careful: even though it has a police escort and a pre-arranged border clearance, a savvy and well-trained homeland security guard just has to assume that an ambulance en route from Canada to the US with a patient in need of emergency angioplasty might…

November 13, 2007
November 5, 2007

Just read this, and while I really want to give Conyers the benefit of the doubt I can't help but marvel. He's written to Fielding eight times asking the White House to stop interfering with the rule of law. Eight times?!? I'm a parent. If I'm in a restaurant and I have to ask the…