Midterms are finally here! It's very possible I might end up being the only one from my place of employment who votes tomorrow, but I know I'm the only one who has looked forward to it for this long. It will be my first time voting in Texas. A place where my vote will probably be more drowned out than it was in Arkansas. That's if "W. Still ...

About a week ago, the big news was how a leaked NIE document's conclusion is exactly the opposite of what the Bush administration has been saying -- that the situation in Iraq and our effect in the 'war on terror' is getting worse, not better. The entire NIE has not been (and may never be) released, but the story reminded me of a Chomsky interview I read a ...

"There is no way of knowing what goes on inside a tiger's head. ...We don't have the technology."

"What makes you say they don't read?" "They voted for Bush twice. There's no reading going on."

This is just great. I'm sure the terrorists had never even thought of bringing snakes on plane—until now. Way to go, Jackson. From that moment on I prayed for my parent's divorce. It only took six years of praying. In an email, I almost told the church secretary to have a sexcellent day.

We're watching Spike Lee's special on New Orleans and Katrina, When The Levees Broke. The 40+ photos they just showed of dead bodies lying around the city made me sick in a way not unlike watching Holocaust footage at the National Holocaust Museum in D.C. back in May. I remember people comparing it to the Holocaust when it happened, and that annoyed me because so many millions ...

I like to think I'm familiar with the majority of euphemisms for vomiting (and just about every other thing that's not so polite to say in public), but “calling Ralph on the big white phone” is one I hadn't heard until recently on Mighty Girl. 'Ralph' I was familiar with, after a frightening small plane ride I wrote about (see 2004). But the 'big white phone' reminds ...

"Do you think people will think we're lovers? Did you know I'm a dirty old man?" "How can Christians believe in a Creator who made all of the earth and everything in it, and then not bother to take care of it? If America is such a Christian country, why is it such a wasteful and resource-hogging place?" "Thank you for your singing and dancing in the wee morning hours. ...