Author: Cicero

I don’t care much about the rules.  Not in the sense that I’m an anomialist or inclined to short cuts, I’m actually a stickler for following the rules.  But I don’t care all that much about what...

Cicero and clan will be making an excursion to the Atlantic provinces of Canada at the end of the month. We’ve been there a few times, and know the can’t miss stuff- Cap Breton, Anne of Green Gables stuff on PEI,...

Not a political diary, not an inspiring or even happy diary- this is a diary about an iota of evil. A singularity of wrong, impenetrable and unfathomable- existential to the point that it is not a thing that can be grasped, and...

I used one of those online services to send a message to my Senators about the Downing Street Minutes.  Senator Santorum was kind enough to reply with a computer generated mass mailing (although he could use a better name...

Just finished reading Justice Bryer’s concurrence (at page 20 in this PDF) in the Judgement in the TX 10 Commandments case.  The Fundies got the shaft from the SCOTUS.The KY case was a solid decision, and got right up...