• Mini-Posts

    The NSA Wiretaps, and Spying On Las Vegas

    FRONTLINE: spying on the home front | PBS TiVo has noticed that we've been watching more current-events and post-9/11 political analysis shows… this was a particularly creepy look at how the NSA installed wiretap rooms, specifically at one AT&T site in San Francisco, and the workaday guys that discovered what was really going on.       

  • Home Improvement - Today

    Grey Spring

    What’s it going to be? Warm and sunny (yesterday) or cold and rainy (today)? I’m so confused! At least I won’t have to water stuff for a couple more days. I’ve got a bunch of plants to get in the ground and will have to put that off now until at least Thursday or later.

  • Hot Off The Presses

    3400th Killed… on Mother’s Day

    All Things Considered, May 15, 2007 · First Lt. Andrew Bacevich Jr. was killed in Iraq on Mother's Day. His mother and father received the news when two uniformed officers rang their doorbell in Walpole, Mass. Bacevich is the 3,400th U.S. serviceman to die in Iraq. His father, a professor of international relations at Boston University, is one of the most prominent critics of the Iraq war in America. Professor Andrew Bacevich is a retired Army colonel and a veteran of the Vietnam War. [tags]Iraq, 3400, Mother's Day[/tags] 

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    NPR : Televangelist, Christian Leader Jerry Falwell Dies

    NPR : Televangelist, Christian Leader Jerry Falwell Dies NPR.org, May 15, 2007 · The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a pioneer among televangelists who later became a leading voice in the national debate over Christian values, has died at the age of 73. Falwell was found unconscious Tuesday in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. Gosh, I… I'm not heartbroken. The good is outweighed by the harm done. A look at the timeline on the NPR page is one long stream of intolerant, unforgiveable statements and actions.