Month: January 2007

I saw this live on television during the House Armed Services hearing but it is great to see it in print: “This is the craziest, dumbest plan I’ve ever seen or heard of in my life,” Rep. Neil Abercrombie...

Froggy Bottom Cafe ~ Happy Hour FM is your host. Newcomers welcome and join the fun. Your first drink is on us! Rude, Crude and Lewd language is encouraged. Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) May the...

My son turned 18 last Friday.  But I really can’t argue against or oppose this legislation. I grew up in a mixed race working class town where almost every adult male over the age of about 35 served and a stint in the...

It was good to see Patrick Murphy, Joe Courtney, Hank Johnson, Gabrielle Giffords, Kirsten Gillibrand, Joe Sestak, and other freshmen serving on the Armed Services Committee today. It really brought home all that we helped...

“Great crimes are always committed by great ignoramuses.” –Voltaire:  Letter to Rousseau, Aug. 10, 1755, in George Seldes, The Great Quotations (Pocket Books 1969 ed.).