Month: April 2007

Look. I know it’s hard to follow all the machinations about the Iraq War Supplemental Funding Bill. Just understanding congressional procedure is a challenge. The whole blogosphere has been struggling to understand what is...

It is hard for me to believe that something other than the constant “mess ups” of the Bush administration could be threatening civilization as we know it, but apparently this is the case. If you have nothing better...

Virginia Tech Convocation, Professor Nikki Giovanni.  YouTube.com © copyright 2007 Betsy L. Angert Today, the thirty-three fatalities are memorialized.  It will not be the first time we honor the passing of these...

General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, says the ongoing surge of troops in Iraq is achieving “modest progress.”  But he also allows as how, yeah, there have been setbacks–devastating...

There are a lot of good stories to write about but the weather has been so nice, after such a long, cold winter, that I have been way more interested in throwing baseballs and planting flowers. Oh well…no blogger is immune...