Month: April 2006

To me, Crashing the Gate promoted two distinct and really unconnected arguments:  First, that the Democratic Party is controlled by an old guard that seems content to run the same losing campaigns without any accountability...

Or to rephrase in terms that George W. Bush could understand, lots of plants and animals will be “smited.” From the pages of Scientific American (online edition): Forester Jay Malcolm of the University of Toronto and...

Is it 5 O’Clock Yet? Froggybottom CafeQuitting time not far away. Start Getting Ready For Happy Hour Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) May the 4’s be with...

Every now and again I read something so mind numbingly stupid that I begin to wonder whether I may have dropped acid an hour or two prior to reading it and just forgot about it. But that would be unlike me, so I begin to wonder...

The Jewish holiday of Passover begins this evening.  Passover commemorates the departure of the ancient Israelites from Egypt.  Under Egypt’s Pharaoh, the Jews had been enslaved and utilized, at least in part, in...