Month: January 2006

Froggy Bottom Cafe – Monday Edition Real live host on duty today! Newcomers welcome, please introduce yourselves. Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from...

That seems to be the function assigned to our Press and Media by the powers that be, and I am sure those powers are delighted at the alacrity with which the media perform their tasks.This thought came to mind when I saw...

From the Million Phone March: Dear Friends and Activists Over the weekend you generated a tsunami of phone calls supporting a filibuster of Alito. Today at 4:30 PM EST is the cloture vote on the Alito filibuster, and with your...

Apparently, there are Democrats who have a problem with filibustering Samuel Alito, primarily out of fear that the Party doesn’t have a plan to win the overall campaign against Scalito. My response is this: if the...

Mom claims my dad’s always been the last guy through the door before the opportunity closed.  I’m delighted it turned out that way, because this man grew up in a boxcar among the Irish railroad builders....