Andrys tripping the world

Health Care Providers on the Health Care overhaul

2010-03-28T01:14:00.000-07:00

Health Providers and the Health Care overhaulPhoto by Michael O’Leary / The Herald (click on picture to enlarge) "Family nurse practioner Cheryl LaFlore provides an ear exam for 6-month-old Malyki King-Perez at the Providence Everett Healthcare Clinic." What can I say? I just love this picture! A robust baby just as weirded-out as I am by what it's like to have to go have the doctors work

EARTH, Disney presents - for Earth Day

2009-04-24T21:56:00.000-07:00

Went to see this beautifully filmed movie today, literally awe-inspiring. Caution: sometimes the predators win, as we know, and it's not super sugar-coated. If you're on fast Internet, click on "HD" at lower right of video for higher-definition video.Opened at theaters on EARTH DAY April 22nd 2009At Youtube, when clicking on "(more info)" button, you'll see the following text and a bit more: '

Desperately seeking Leonardo da Vinci

2009-04-03T20:45:00.000-07:00

Possible newly discovered Leonardo self-portrait< in the Basilicata region of southern Italy, near Potenza, goes on display there in April and May.Experts say it's not a self-portrait by da Vinci while others point to the da Vinci trademark carving on the back, in Latin, "Painted by" -- written in reverse as was his wont. Not ultra convincing, as anyone could do that. Strangely enough, The

Queen Nefertiti and Facial Interpretation

2009-04-01T13:45:00.000-07:00

After seeing the Yahoo news article on this, I went to see Scientific America's uniquely large images of the scans being distributed today of the inner limestone layer of this famous sculpture, which is a more detailed rendering of the Queen's head, overlaid by the stucco representation we have known all these years. The Scientific American image captions struck me as strange in their

"Polypill" made from 5 drugs may cut heart & stroke disease

2009-03-30T22:55:00.000-07:00

The WebMD article I just read is upbeat about a new 5-in-1 pill that may be effective without costing much. Is that even thinkable in today's world? WebMD's Charlene Raimo writes:A "polypill" combining five heart drugs -- three blood-pressure-lowering drugs, a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, and aspirin -- is safe and works as well as any of the medications alone, researchers report.The

Some of us can all get along ...

2009-01-05T04:40:00.000-08:00

From sajha.com"Neilingding Island, China. Three months ago, the macaque was born on the island, but strayed from its mother. Luckily, it was taken in by work staff in the protective station and made the acquaintance of the pigeon. More than 2,000 macaques live on the island.""Dema, a 26-day-old male endangered Sumatran tiger cub, cuddles up to 5-month-old female orangutan Irma at the Taman Safari

Yosuke, the lost parrot, knows his place

2009-01-05T02:51:00.000-08:00

I've noted a lot of oddities for the blog but haven't gotten to them for months, having been overwhelmed by political oddities, so here's one to start.Wandering Yosuke (to the left) gave up his ID and street address to a probably kindly vetinarian. "I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian, according to [local policeman Shinjiro] Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home

Anne Kilkenny's letter about Sarah Palin

2008-09-04T15:02:00.000-07:00

This points to a copy of a letter about Palin that details her political history, as viewed by a city council attendee since 1992, who has negative feelings about Palin's tenure but balances the letter with some positive info also. There are almost no cites in the letter.<---- Logo at left is used with consent of Warrior Librarian, but that site and its staff have NO association with Palin,

Recent updates to existing entries with no date-change

2008-08-12T09:43:00.000-07:00

August 6 - The Bigger Donors - NYT. "Behind those larger donations is a phalanx of more than 500 Obama 'bundlers,' fund-raisers who have each collected contributions totaling $50,000 or more. Many of the bundlers come from industries with critical interests in Washington. Nearly three dozen of the bundlers have raised more than $500,000 each, including more than a half-dozen who have passed the

That Iraq War Vote and the Judgment Factor

2008-03-10T19:16:00.001-07:00

Who do we know who would have said this about Hillary ?"She’s one of the toughest. She’s got an extraordinary intelligence. And she is, she’s somebody who’s in this stuff for the right reasons. She’s passionate about moving the country forward on issues like health care and children. So it’s not clear to me what differences we’ve had since I’ve been in the Senate. "I think what people might

Matt Gonzalez on Change we should avoid: Obama's voting record

2008-02-28T20:57:00.000-08:00

A progressive's closer look at Obama's voting record. Matt Gonzalez is a former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and will be the running mate for Ralph Nader's quixotic quest for quadrennial attention but has some values common to a lot of us. " He reminds us again and again that he had the foresight to oppose the war in Iraq. And he seems to have a genuine interest in

Source of Obama photo from Kenya

2008-02-27T02:46:00.001-08:00

The Obama photo from Kenya (in Somali-elder garb) was posted on the Free Republic site on February 23, 2008 and is apparently scanned from a periodical titled "Examiner," dated February 4, 2008. This posting was made to the highly traffic'd, conservative Republican forum two days before Drudge ran the photo on Monday, February 25, and claimed he'd "obtained" it from a Clinton staffer

Finding just the right words...

2008-02-23T08:35:00.000-08:00

Senator Obama tries to explain why a certain woman might "periodically" launch attacks (on him) when "feeling down" and wanting to, in this unique way, "boost her appeal."It's clever wording. Video removed after the 2008 primariesThis set of videoclip comparisons begins with words used often by Obama when he's speaking in the South, including in Mississippi, where Obama explained his understandable reactions to the premature but strategically superdelegate-targeted idea of a duo-run, when Clinton said that the crowd

'New' concepts of Hope and Change?

2008-02-18T15:05:00.000-08:00

I recently heard Barack Obama speak in bleak terms about the temptation of building a bridge back to the 20th Century by nominating Hillary Clinton.Today I also saw complaints from Obama enthusiasts that Clinton has taken from her opponent the concepts of 'change' and 'hope.'Then, on the same day, I see the Michelle Obama videoclip and text excerpt titled "For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime

Da Vinci's The Last Supper Up Close at Home

2007-10-29T06:10:00.000-07:00

Da Vinci's The Last Supper in Detail - described here. Per the AP, Officials put online an image of the "Last Supper" at 16 billion pixels — 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera.The high resolution will allow experts to examine details of the 15th century wall painting that they otherwise could not — including traces of drawings Leonardo put

I WANT Snowball the Cockatoo ! or his dancing lessons

2007-10-20T17:31:00.000-07:00

I just love this rockin' cockatoo parrot and his steps! He loves that beat! Choreography's tricky too. Snowball's taught himself (per the video description) to dance to the Back Street Boy's "Everybody" and he, sorta, sings too :-) Simon, don't miss this one!There's even a mohawk.Per the videoclip, he's "a medium sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo living at the Bird Lovers Only Rescue in

"Healthiest packaged foods" (for women, but ...)

2007-08-30T03:27:00.000-07:00

"100 Best Foods list" per Women's Health Magazine. While the magazine's target crowd is non-males, I imagine the products listed as tasty, disease-fighting and lean-mean recommendations here might work for men too.

Verbier Festival videos online until Aug 31

2007-08-06T01:14:00.000-07:00

The VERBIER Festival 2007 concerts are being made available for viewing, free, in high-definition video on the Net, on-demand, accessible only until August 31, 2007. Fast Internet access (cablemodem, DSL, etc) is required to access the streams though. medici-arts.tv is providing the technology. The pairing of Martha Argerich and Lang Lang is the most unusual item. Details here. Other

I'm in love

2007-07-11T17:14:00.000-07:00

Dog with a heart, well, two.This adorable pup is likely to be worth a lot of $$ but I bet he won't be sold, at least not for a few days. Emiko Sakurada and Heartkun live in northern Japan, where Emiko has bred a thousand chihuahuas.

Does the iPhone meet expectations?

2007-06-26T17:59:00.000-07:00

{UPDATE 8/12/07 - User reviews at CNET (652 today): Avg rating 6.4}{UPDATES 7/24/07 - (1) Apple shares down 6% after disappointing iPhone sales numbers. (2) iPhone is seriously hackable per a story in The Guardian today. They've advised Apple, who needs to plug that up.}6/26/07 - Well, I haven't been following this, not being very trendy, but saw the NY Times writeup and video today by its

Videos from Cliburn Competition at YouTube

2007-06-02T07:42:00.000-07:00

The Van Cliburn Foundation is now offering, on YouTube, content from its DVD, Encore! - in six 9-minute chunks (YouTube 10 min. max).James Conlon explores the relationship between the concert pianist's internal world and the composer's score - with the finalists of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as his examples - and examines what makes one interpretation so different

Lucy in the Sky and She's Leaving Home

2007-06-01T22:55:00.000-07:00

Who were they? Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds wasn't (just) about LSD? From the many leaving homes (the most poignant song by the Beatles alongside Eleanor Rigby, for me), who was the one whose story inspired She's Leaving Home?Meet Lucy Richardson Vodden and Melanie Coe via The Times, UK.Lucy, now a 43-year-old housewife from Surrey, was a classmate of John’s son, Julian, at Heath House

Piano: Cats on the keys

2007-06-01T22:53:00.000-07:00

Nora I & II, plusProkofiev and the Love of One OrangeWarning to the Lang Lang averse, go watch something else after Nora does her sensitive thing with the keys. These are for fun for those so inclined.Nora cats around on the piano. I love this video.Nora does chamber music and actually listens to her partner Lang's Prokofiev as street fighter with fancy footwork Lang and his right-hand

Study: Brain causes high blood pressure, not heart

2007-05-06T03:40:00.000-07:00

Brain, not heart, causes high blood pressure: researchers - April 14, 2007 ...scientists said that hypertension, which can lead to heart attacks, strokes and kidney damage, is an inflammatory vascular disease of the brain rather than the heart, as previously thought.They discovered that a protein located in the brain, JAM-1, trapped white blood cells, which can then cause inflammation and

Reverse Alzheimer's memory loss?

2007-05-06T02:31:00.000-07:00

Reversing Alzheimer's memory loss may be possible By Will Durnham (for Reuters, April 30, 2007). . . Neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said [in a phone interview], "We show, I believe, the first evidence that even if the brain suffered some very severe neurodegeneration and the individual exhibits very severe learning

Debunked: Cell phone effect and Einstein quote re disappearing bees

2007-05-06T00:14:00.000-07:00

Seth Borenstein clears the air of bad buzz on cell phones and imaginary Einstein quote. (For some basic info on bees, here is a bit more than most will want to know, but I found it interesting since I once had a bee colony in the walls of my home.)AP - Associated Press May 4, 2007 update . . . [there were] erroneous reports blaming cell phones for the honeybee die-off, which scientists are

Aspirin

2007-04-17T18:49:00.000-07:00

Aspirin reduces overall cancer and mortality rates - Reuters Health, by Megan Rauscher. This is a story on findings reported Apr 16 at the annual gathering of American Association for Cancer Research by Dr. Aditya Bardia of Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. It should be pointed out this is a study of 22,507 postmenopausal women in the Iowa Women's Health Study who were followed for up to

Sibling non-rivalry: Kandy and sister, Hamburg

2007-04-15T04:30:00.000-07:00

Elephant Kandy(L) checks on her new born half sister at the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Roland Magunia)I can't resist these. Found on Yahoo news but scrolled of now.

Mobile phones, disappearing bees, and our lifespans

2007-04-15T03:41:00.000-07:00

{See later story debunking the following.}Here's an alarming news bit, not to mention the un-cited study results at the end, but I will. [And I've added an article from The Scotsman, which includes discussions of the info in the article.]Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? - by Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross for The Independent (UK), Apr 15, 2007.". . . some scientists suggest that our

Golf Ace, at age 102, a hole-in-1

2007-04-15T03:18:00.000-07:00

I love stories like this.102-year old Calif. Woman hits hole-in-1 - AP"Because of the slope of the green, McLean and her partners couldn't see where her ball landed after she teed off.'Where's my ball?' McLean asked. . . . McLean, who has been featured in golf magazines before, will appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on April 24 to celebrate her accomplishment.'For an old lady," she said,

Brain cells can grow extensions - Nature News

2007-04-15T02:47:00.001-07:00

Nature News, Apr 11, 2007"[UPI] -- U.S. scientists have discovered some mature brain cells can grow new extensions when the amount of three particular proteins on their surface increases. Ohio State University medical researchers studied the three related receptor proteins -- GPR3, GPR6 and GPR12 -- on nerve cells in the brains of rats.When researchers increased the amount of the three proteins

Joyce Hatto - a Whodunit . with audio sample

2007-02-18T09:53:00.000-08:00

Make that, a "Whoplayedit"! The usually sedate classical music recording world has been rocked this week by what appears to be a hoax of rather unbelievable proportions but with no understandable motive. The recently discovered and lionized Joyce Hatto had an output of 100+ recordings which included full sets of piano music by almost every well-known composer and playing of consistently high

Jon Stewart on "Dobbs to Blitzer"

2007-02-13T18:30:00.000-08:00

The news these days is pretty awful and, as mentioned, tends to leave me speechless since I don't like to concentrate on hideous stuff much.I've provided at the right a list of blog sites to get the latest very quickly, at any time. But every blog does that. I'm adding something today that just really tickled me.Here's Rachel Sklar's Huffington Post gift of a videoclip from Stewart's show

Somewhere in Italy, my Bach-Siloti prelude and rabbits

2006-11-08T05:26:00.000-08:00

Speaking of Italy (5 months ago ... I'm a bit behind), I was tickled to find a short video online, somewhere in Italy, using, appropriately enough, a short piece I recorded a couple of years ago when getting my then-new Yamaha. It's a transcription by Siloti -- in 19th Century style, with lute-like bass -- of a prelude by Bach. Romantic in style, it was written for his daughter when she was

Big election-day factor?

2006-11-08T03:24:00.000-08:00

I think the monster,interactive blog-space of Huffington Post was a really important factor in today's elections. I go there regularly and find good info (and otherwise) from the countless online sites, to pass on to others. Information normally kept from the public and hard to find is now easily accessible. It's a fantastic network, with positive energy behind it. The effectiveness of that

Thoughts to consider on Election Day

2006-11-06T16:12:00.000-08:00

Insulting Our Troops, and Our Intelligence - by Tom Friedman, who cheer-led and supported the Iraq war because he believed in it, saying in a townhill mtg that if he were proved wrong about this "exciting" experiment, "I would go down"... (to which I thought, "No, Tom, young people and this country will go down'). He's a bit upset about how things have been handled.Extracts:"What could possibly

May in Italy

2006-06-11T15:30:00.000-07:00

Back from relaxing (or was it running) around Italy. Just beginning to upload photos (and videoclips) of that gorgeous place. Saw Rome (3 days), drove through Tuscany (2 weeks), walked Florence's old city and museums (3 days). Fantastic. All that was needed was more time :-) . In the next few months, will sift through and upload photos from time in Rome, Pitigliano, Bagnoregio,

New Google calendar! Pros and Cons

2006-04-13T23:59:00.000-07:00

SearchEngineWatch likes it a lot but describes the up- and downsides and provides useful links. MIT technology adds somewhat more technical info and collected comments. Sharing aspect is big. ITWire points out that "It is operating system agnostic. All you need is the web browser of your choice.". Microsoft has reason to worry.

Dangerous Internet Explorer needs more patching, as ever...

2006-04-12T02:01:00.000-07:00

Microsoft releases 5 security updates today while pretending they're "regular" and "routine" -- what's new?CNet's News.Com explains the "critical" nature of some of the fixes (while mixing up which patch does what) and points out one little known way a computer can become affected:"Some of the vulnerabilities in Windows and IE could also be exploited using an HTML e-mail, which essentially is a

White House happily leaks false info to silence American dissent

2006-04-09T02:29:00.000-07:00

Washington Post article re selective leaking of false info to silence Americans who dare to question "leaders.""One striking feature of that decision -- unremarked until now, in part because Fitzgerald did not mention it -- is that the evidence Cheney and Libby selected to share with reporters had been disproved months before."I haven't bothered to update the page lately because news is so

Palace Revolt (by Bush appointees)

2006-02-05T17:08:00.000-08:00

Newsweek investigation."They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it."

Evesdropping w/o court order on ~5000 finds virtually nothing

2006-02-05T14:12:00.000-08:00

Arlen Spector, Republican Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says (on Meet the Press today), that the domestic evesdropping program appears to be "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Washington Post details the lack of cause for evesdropping on Americans, let alone doing this while scorning the FISA Act and court. "Computer-controlled systems collect and

Important patch for Windows insecurity

2006-01-06T11:43:00.000-08:00

UPDATED January 6. On January 2, Washington Post reported that F-Secure (my favorite anti-virus site) urged that all Windows users install the unofficial patch download a patch for what is considered a very dangerous bug. Read the story and then download Microsoft's official patch of Jan. 6.

Christmas Day

2005-12-25T17:13:00.000-08:00

Thoughts on Xmas Day and the so-called "War on Xmas" A day originally to celebrate the birth of Christ and what that means to people today -- but especially what it does not mean to so many who have manufactured a false "war" on Christmas - maybe because "war" is a word which holds much attraction for them, almost as much as "win." The original story starts with 3 men bearing gifts for a

Bypass voice menus to get to a live person

2005-12-04T14:43:00.000-08:00

Guardian story about Paul English's terrific IVR Cheat Sheet. English's info page and press galore since Nov '05.

Vanity Fair on Arianna Huffington

2005-12-04T02:56:00.000-08:00

Candid article on the blogosphere presence with more influence today than most politicians or writers, due to a razor-sharp mind, cutting sense of humor and a real passion for acquiring and using power to make positive changes. In her new blog-empire commentaries, Arianna Huffington highlights with virtual laser beams what is really happening here, Mr. Jones :-)

Planting and paying for Good News in Iraq

2005-12-03T13:35:00.000-08:00

NY Times story re admission that news articles written by American troops had been placed as paid advertisements in the Iraqi news media and not always properly identified.

What was involved in that facial transplant

2005-12-03T13:33:00.000-08:00

Amazing story (NY Times), including reconstruction of donor's face with a silicon prosthesis before the funeral.

Alito's hidden quest to mitigate and eventually overule Roe vs Wade

2005-12-02T02:07:00.000-08:00

Update 12/1/05 - Alito's credibility seriously in question now after he failed to cite a case for which he submitted a 17-page abortion-strategy memo.________________ "What can be made of this opportunity to advance the goals of bringing about the eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade and, in the meantime, of mitigating its effects?" he asked in the memo concerning a Pennsylvania case before the

Bob Woodward's entanglements

2005-11-29T22:06:00.000-08:00

Update. Nora Ephron on why someone who believes everything he is told by insiders can't discern a lie when he regurgitates it. "...why people love to talk to him; he almost never puts the pieces together in a way that hurts his sources... ...his sources can count on him to convey their version of events. ...Woodward spends most of his life reporting. He knows

L.A. Times - End this war.

2005-11-27T17:55:00.000-08:00

The newly-conservative L.A. Times mgmt wrote a stinging Iraq editorial today, excerpts below:______________ . IRAQ'S SUNNI, SHIITE AND KURDISH leaders have finally found an issue on which they agree: a timetable for the U.S. to leave Iraq. That's fine. They have also agreed it's permissible for insurgents to kill U.S. soldiers. That's dreadful. . Murtha was right to say U.S. forces

"Extremely critical IE flaw"

2005-11-22T02:17:00.000-08:00

The exploit code, made public on Monday, aims to take advantage of the "extremely critical" vulnerabilities in IE 5.5 and IE 6 running on XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and IE 6 running on Windows 2000 SP4, security researcher Secunia said in an advisory. Once a PC user is tricked into visiting a malicious website, the exploit can be triggered automatically, without the user doing anything . . . "

An amazing keyboard player

2005-11-21T04:19:00.000-08:00

It takes balls to play the piano like this! - available for fast internet and dial-up modems. If there's trouble loading this, here's a later alternative site

That pre-war intel same for all?

2005-11-21T04:05:00.000-08:00

Naturally not. And, as shown:"...the White House had access to intelligence assessments such as the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) that Congress never was able to review, and the administration failed to provide lawmakers with certain dissenting views within the intelligence community. The administration also received information directly from two alternative intelligence sources that were

US Lt. Col. on our use of white phosphorus at Fallujah

2005-11-21T04:04:00.000-08:00

BBC: US Lt. Colonel Barry Venable retracts denial that we used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon in Fallujah against "enemy combatants" who remained in the city. From the BBC article:_______ "The US state department had earlier said white phosphorus had been used in Falluja very sparingly, for illumination purposes. Col Venable said that statement was based on 'poor information'

New Fitzgerald grand jury - what it means

2005-11-21T04:03:00.000-08:00

Washington Post explains, "Experts said that Fitzgerald is not trying to shore up his case on Libby. Under court rules, Fitzgerald cannot use a new grand jury to gather additional evidence for an indictment he has already brought, or to wrap up unanswered questions in preparation for Libby's trial. He can only call on a grand jury to hear evidence if he is considering new charges against another

Sony's hard disk attack gets another class-action suit.

2005-11-21T01:45:00.000-08:00

Update - Nov. 21, from Information Week, on Sony's "ineptware"The Washington Post reports that Sony's now infamous "rootkit" has drawn a potential-50-state class-action suit.... " 'To date, over 3 million copies of XCP encoded disks have been sold. It is probable that millions of consumers have played these discs on their PC's and thus compromised their systems without knowing it,' the lawsuit

Cutting and Running?

2005-11-19T22:44:00.000-08:00

Interesting points by William Odom about the concept of cutting and running from Iraq. Here's a thinking conservative's take on Murtha vs Mirtha by David Adesnik. And defense hawk Rep Norm Dicks laments the labelling of dissenting voices as "peaceniks," etc.Some thoughts I have though: The Republicans in Congress offered a resolution of their own as a red herring the other day, in a very

Bush Sr.'s hand-written note to Joe Wilson re Valerie Plame leak

2005-11-17T08:25:00.000-08:00

The Berkeleyan's Barry Bergman reports in the UC weekly, dated Nov 17, that Joe Wilson mentioned, in response to a question, the following nugget (here is the wording from the weekly:_______Soon after he went public with his findings, Plame's identity was revealed, effectively ending her undercover career and — according to Wilson and others, including some of her colleagues — potentially

Sky drama last week

2005-11-17T08:23:00.000-08:00

November is a month for dramatic, colorful skies in the East Bay.I am just a sucker for these.(Click on photo for more of same.)

GOP Senator Hagel explains Patriotism to Bush Administration

2005-11-16T23:10:00.000-08:00

Senator Chuck Hegel (R-Neb.), in a speech to the Council of Foreign Relations, stressed that "...the Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them." "...To question your government is not unpatriotic -- to not question your government is unpatriotic ... America owes its men and

Bishops from Bush's church regret "complicity" in Iraq war

2005-11-13T00:38:00.000-08:00

FoxNews reports that "Ninety-five bishops from President Bush's church said Thursday they repent their 'complicity' in the 'unjust and immoral' invasion and occupation of Iraq. 'In the face of the United States administration's rush toward military action based on misleading information, too many of us were silent,' said a statement of conscience signed by more than half of the 164 retired

When it rains . . . ? [ WH & Katrina subpoenas]

2005-11-12T17:19:00.000-08:00

Republican Senator Tom Davis threatens subpoenas of 3 White House Cabinet members and WH Counsel Harriet Miers. "...During a committee hearing yesterday, Davis decried the failure of White House officials to release e-mails and other communication records related to the [Katrina] hurricane and its aftermath. Davis set a hard deadline of Nov. 18 for all federal agencies to comply with his

Should the Republican Party be concerned?

2005-11-10T01:03:00.000-08:00

Little reported election results that should give some pause, collected by William Rivers Pitt and Mark Green."Beyond the epic victories of Mr. Kaine in Virginia and Mr. Corzine in New Jersey, beyond the ... defeat handed to the Governator in California, beyond the defeat of an anti-gay ballot initiative in Maine, there were these ...: . In the 94th District legislative race in Missouri,

Frist and Hastert demand investigation of leak by Republicans.

2005-11-09T23:16:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry, but this one is just too funny. UPDATE Nov. 9...Tonight it's Also, Who Leaked Frist/Hastert letter? :-) and Lott is now saying he meant another leak. MSNBC and The Financial Times reports that Senator Lott explained that Cheney told Republican Senators about secret CIA prisons during a GOP-only luncheon the day before this classified information was leaked to the Washington

Fitzgerald still actively investigating Rove

2005-11-09T19:13:00.000-08:00

Update Nov. 9 - Rove's top assistant Susan Ralston is scheduled for more interviews with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Backgrounder at Asian Week Washington Post reports (Nov. 3) that Fitzgerald was talking by phone "in the last 3 days" to Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper's attorney about conversations with Rove. Re "Official A" in Fitzgerald's indictment and his

Getting your goat isn't always so easy.

2005-11-07T22:30:00.000-08:00

Trampolines and emotional connectionsFascinating story. As a neighbor, what would you do? Here's another great shot and (updated 7/23/08) a page with even more excellent pics. Update: Here are follow-up summary of how this turned out!

Noteworthy Republicans on Plamegate (WMDgate)

2005-11-06T00:28:00.000-08:00

William F. Buckley Jr writes about Covert Questions, summing up with "...it becomes almost inapprehensible what it is that Cheney/Libby/Rove got themselves into. But the sacredness of the law against betraying a clandestine soldier of the republic cannot be slighted." John Dean, on A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? says, "Having read the indictment against Libby, I am inclined to

What the... !

2005-11-05T19:15:00.000-08:00

This is the first entry in a blog that will include a potpourri of news, some music notes without staves, a few photos, and will function as a sort of database of info-links that I'd otherwise lose. And, mainly, I'm typing so I can preview the blogpage, currently a mystery to me. The title is from my brother Glen's favorite exclamation when young and suits the title of this blog, eh?