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Californians voted overwhelmingly to approve [Prop. 71][1]. Prop 71 was a $3 billion bond measure to fund stem cell research. Are they kidding me? California is fighting to get itself out of a huge deficit. I totally disagree with Gov. Schwartzenegger on this. I think he caved. It’s totally fiscally irresponsible. Don’t get me wrong.…
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[*What This Country Needs — A New Political Party*][1], is a new book by [John F. Kimberling][2] From the website. >An obscure U.S. vice-president once said “What this country needs is a good five cent cigar”. But in this frank, outspoken book, author John Kimberling argues that what this country really needs is a new…
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Thank goodness. It’s finally over. We have a humble [winner][GWB] and [someone][Kerry] who gave a gracious concessions speech. All I can say is “everyone get over it.” Being angry and bitter or giddy and self-righteous is totally non-productive. If you want to vent — vent. But let it pass. I can’t understand how many people…
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Jeff is someone I consider a friend. When I made my last post about Kerry’s discharge he emailed me. We’ve been carrying on a rather lengthy discussion of the issues. All without the usual ad hominem attacks on either candidate. It’s refreshing. Perhaps we’ll find a way to publish it, but then to what real…
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My father went to Vietnam and received an Honorable Discharge. The discharge looks like a cheap looking diploma. Lots of fancy lettering, etc. [That is what an honorable discharge looks like][2]. What’s on [Kerry’s site][1] is a letter dated several years after his separation from the Naval Reserves. Coincidentally, it’s dated some short time after…
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I’ve finally updated the [wipeCloud][1] script so that it will work for those who are using [Radio][] via a [Salon blog][2]. It seems that the default data table that was being passed was not the one for the Salon server, rcs.salon.com. After a bit of digging the fix was pretty simple. [1]: http://radio.weblogs.com/0001017/publicTools/scripts/wipeCloud.ftsc [2]: http://blogs.salon.com…