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The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson

Oddly Old When Young, And Even More Oddly Young When OldFor the last ten years or so, in my in-depth discussions with friends and well...pretty much anyone on the subject of Michael Jackson, I would find myself invariably saying, “I just don't see him living past fifty-five.” This remark would ...

Mama’s Giant Leap

(Footprint on the moon, July 1969. Photo from NASA. Click to enlarge.)I can tell you in detail what I was doing this morning 40 years ago. It's the recent Moon Landing anniversary, and other hallmarks, which make it possible to be so precise. Plus my freaky memory, of course.The ...

Oh, To Channel Bobby Ewing…

Post-A Season-Long Dream / Nightmare, I Unfortunately Don't Look That Good In The ShowerWell...I'm back.I wasn't dead, mauled by PUMAs or beaten into a coma by wingnuts swinging heavy teabags.Time and a simple thing called creative routine simply rendered me unable to do something which I very much love to ...

Sara Robinson on Thom Hartmann: Health Care in Canada

“A Moral No-Brainer.”Sara was interviewed yesterday by Thom Hartmann on health care in Canada. Wonderful stuff.And at Campaign for America's Future where she's a Fellow, Sara blogs on the same topic with The Health Care Debate: Another Country Heard From.Enjoy.

Pathetic Gesture in FDA Legistlation Puts People Last

The House passed a very weak and pathetic food safety bill. It was supposed to help the FDA get some teeth, resources and authority after the beef, spinach, pepper and peanut calamities of the last 2 years. It was supposed to help prevent food borne illness from spreading. Food borne ...

Conversation With a Conservative

We Were Talking About Race, Police, Personal FreedomAnd shit like that. On Friday I'm playing the harp and the pipes at a funeral for a local kid (23) who was gunned down on the border. He was a Border Patrol Officer, and the place he was shot is ...

Harry Reid Says No Heath Care Bill Before Summer Break

In a move that did not surprise me at all, spineless Senate Majority Leader, Hopeless Harry Reid, went on the record that there will be no heath care bill before the August recess. WASHINGTON AP– Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday abandoned plans for a vote on health care before Congress' ...

Old Friends

Email today from two old friends, first contact since 1979 when I was still an Army medic in the 101st Airborne at Ft. Campbell, Ky. Wow...Last week I was contacted by a woman (then a girl) whom I briefly kissed at a New Year's Eve dance 1976-1977. She's single with ...

Little Men

The Jesus General takes the prize this weekend for this brilliant post today; (prob. not safe for work)Oppressing Patriots And Their Tiny "Little Soldiers"Minutemen Bikini Battalian from JC Christian on Vimeo.What a tough guy. And those swimsuit model shots! Future Pinup of the radical racist right! Yes I think we ...

Conservative Democrats Have All the Qualities

Of a Dog, Except LoyaltyThe "Blue Dog" Democrats of the Congress, are selling all of us out and down the river to safeguard their contributions from the Pharmacologists, the Insurance Industry, and anyone else with more money than us.They have begun to call their little cabal dedicated to blowing up ...

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