Month: October 2005

First things first (I’m thinking we all need a little protection): Gargoyle (gar’goil) n. A fearsome figure carved from stone that has powers to ward off evil spirits. With chilly weather fast approaching here in the...

Yesterday I had the occasion to drive from Milwaukee to Chicago and back. A two and one half hour one way drive which slows through the northern suburban traffic snarl of Chicago, I decided to take Highway 41 instead of the...

We all know how items in the news often escape the corporate media machines. Here are a few juicy tidbits we may have missed: * Mounting Opposition to the Patriot Act by Business Groups Even business is realizing that inner...

Sometimes it’s all just “too much” to take in. From every direction there is mounting evidence that this country has gone off the rails totally, taken there by an administration so corrupt and incompetent it...

I have no experience with posting diaries but while reading the Detroit Free Press this a.m. I jumped from my breakfast and dashed to my computer.  According to an headline article written by staff writer Michael Ellis with...