I have been meaning to write a very long, complex and cerebral post about the seemingly exponential growth of Twitter in the last few months, but as my list of related bookmarks grows, the time to read them runs screaming, so I thought I’d try and capture a few thoughts in the next week or two in ...

Ran across a really awesome quote online this morning. It was unattributed so I don't know who originated it, but I really like it: "The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities." How about that, huh? Th...

President Lyndon Johnson’s administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama’s will become notable for his War on Prosperity. Dick Morris - 3/3/09...

haiku for 2/15/09...

It’s hardly appealing: WHEN a group of Venezuelan women staged an impromtu protest recently by dropping their trousers in front of armed national guards, President Hugo Chavez cheekily observed that the women were obviously in need of more attention than they received from their opposition hus...

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom"  --John F. Kennedy Revelations and Awakenings. &nbs...

“This war is lost…”- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Joe Biden has some stiff competition. Harry Reid, the diminutive Senate Majority Leader of Nevada has recently suffered from numerous bouts of oral diarrhea that would give Biden a run for his money. Considering some of B...

The abused become the abusers. We know this from studying domestic violence. Those most likely to beat children are those who were beaten. Those most likely to prey on them were preyed-upon. Yet even the most gentle among us find it hard to resist this when it comes to politics. We are going through...

[*ahem* SPOILER WARNING!]     As a dedicated Battlestar Galactica fan I can’t wait for the final episodes to start in January and I’m already enjoying the countdown webisode series, ‘The Face of the Enemy’ which features Felix Gaeta, two Cylon Eights (Sharon’s model) and a few ve...

Over at Power and Control, Simon says: The government IS the Devil. Not metaphorically. Really. Everything you get from government will have a price much larger than the value of the object gained. Some times the price will not be extracted from you. Sometimes it will be from your children, your gra...