Them, The People

Huckabee proposes amending the American Constitution to oppose abortion, reflecting “God’s standards”. This says to me not how wacked out Huckabee is, but how little the very principles of the document matter to anyone anymore. Huckabee faithfully represents his own beliefs, which are Right Wing, Conservative, and very Religious.  All caps intended.  Even though I [...]

home alone

I’ll tell it here the once.  The story isn’t that much fun to repeat. On our way back from a very full three weeks of Christmas in Charlotte, we overnighted in Seattle.  The alarm didn’t go off (and refused to go off in subsequent testing until we rebooted the phone a couple times) and we [...]

Still Screwed By The Man

Thom Yorke and Radiohead made more money from independent digital distribution of their latest album online, charging whatever you were willing to pay, than from their entire catalog combined under their contract with EMI. It seems that where the bricks & mortar music industry completely missed the boat on monetizing digital distribution fifteen years ago [...]