Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Without satellite broadband, people like me who live outside cities and need to run online businesses are usually up a creek to put it politely - it’s pretty hard to do that sort of thing using dialup (it CAN be done, but it’s NOT easy).
In fact, I did it on dialup (on 30+ year old […]

Have a look here at the latest post by Weasel Times and Intelligencer:
“On Monday, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research published a press release revealing that Al Gore’s mansion in Belle Meade uses more electricity in a month than the average family uses in a year. And I keep coming back to that. Belle Meade.
Belle […]

Again, I’ve not in the past been over-thrilled with Rocky Anderson. He’s mostly a “little too out there” among other things.
But this time, I think he’s right with calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheyney - regardless that Dick Cheyney’s rather a “Mr. Bumba” of a VP, relatively harmless (unless he’s pointing a […]

In response to all the folks who, for good reason, don’t believe the evidence presented by the Bush Administration shows beyond doubt that Iran’s government is responsible for the presence of Iranian weapons in Iraq, Bush has now trotted out the official dog and pony show at a press conference at the White House yesterday.
I […]

that only Mormon men think is wise and logical. Welcome to the Supreme Court - again (though unfortunately for women, the composition and tenor of the Court has changed radically….)
Oh yes. Here we go AGAIN. Utah’s legislative idiots (male, of course) are poised to attempt to pass legislation which will make any […]

The National Pork Board decided to pick on a lady with a couple of missions of importance to a fair amount of people (promoting the very natural act of breastfeeding - see The Lactivist; and operating Search Engine Guide which attempts to help small business owners figure out the whole internet search engine thing), and […]

The historical basis for DST goes back to WWII. I suppose at that point it may have made sense (in the same way that blackout fabric over windows made sense).
It decidedly does NOT make sense now. It has not made any KIND of sense in the last 40 years of my life. […]

and cuts off the purse strings NOW. I cannot believe that King Bush is going to go against the will of the people, most of his OWN PARTY, and his military advisors to send another 20k+ troop into Iraq!
Insanity. Sheerest insanity. I guess King Bush wants to live on in history any […]

I wonder who paid payola to whom to get the FDA to give a preliminary thumbs up to cloned animals such as beef and goat, entering the food supply. The most disturbing part of this story is “For food that does come from clones, the Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to require labels, officials […]

The New York Times today had an article entitled Costs of a Crisis- Diabetics Confront a Tangle of Workplace Laws which really had me thinking about a lot of seemingly unrelated things that have come into the news lately and to my attention in other ways. A few of those things-

NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s new law […]