Month: September 2007

I used to play tennis six hours a day in the summer and do tournaments and all that jazz. I gave it all up to sit around and blog all day. Anyway, I received a nice new Head tennis racket for my birthday and I just spent this...

Weekly Voting Rights News Update This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news. Featured Stories of the Week: Opinion: Voting by mail gets my full...

Note: Action item down at the bottom of this diary I haven’t seen this posted anywhere, and with the focus no longer being on the US attorney firing scandal and the relationship between many of the US attorneys and election...

For the first time in my memory (and I’m 61 as I write this) the American Dollar and the Canadian Dollar are at equivalent value. I heard this on NPR as I drove to Betty’s lunchcounter in Shepherdstown this morning...

“Accustomed only to nails, they had made one effort to pull out the screw by main force, and now that it had failed they were devising methods of applying more force still, of obtaining more efficient pincers, of using...