Month: August 2005

Don’t let it ever be said that I even remotely resemble anything close to a photographer. Here is proof that I do not :O) Rick Holcomb (Adastra) took many very fine photos because he bears a very close resemblance to a...

In an earlier diary, I covered some language patterns that can be effectively used to counter the arguments of wingnuts spouting (never) right wing talking points. Here is a further example of some responses you can string...

You have to see it to believe it.  This Christian Science Monitor article attacks the “frame”of the grieving mother by exploiting language to differentiate between grieving families opposed to the war and...

Sometime on September 11th, 2001, some very important pieces of paper began circulating at the highest levels of government. These were the the passenger manifests for Flights 11, 77, 93, and 175 that had crashed earlier that...

Curt Weldon’s story In January of this year, Rep. Curt Weldon made a speech to the House of Representatives in which he made a number of extraordinary assertions: Federal agencies from had, in fact, identified the major...