Month: July 2007

This stunningly colored bird goes by the rather dull name of the Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio). I spotted a group of six while taking a side track home (which passes through Gould’s Lagoon). For you birders, the...

Let’s pull a thread here and see what it gets us. On February 6, 2006 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified about the NSA program before Arlen Specter’s Senate Judiciary Committee. This hearing was most...

Both of the following statements can’t be true. Here’s the first one, the new neocon line on Iran. Emphasis mine: … Speaking in London this week, Frederick Kagan, a West Point military historian and noted US...

cross-posted at skippy and a veritable cornucopia of other community blogs. due to the wonderful nature of randomocity in the universe, the daily kos random blog roll of 10 user blogroll links (changed daily) has listed skippy...

Well, I find it interesting that, although it inspired many very thoughtful comments, my question about the media inspired no direct answers. It seems the entire premise of my question was rejected en masse. But I still think it...