Just as you believe that maybe, perhaps, the tide is turning and the government that is charged with the responsibility and care of those most in need — the severely mentally ill who are hospitalized — actually “gets” it, you read a story like this one. Raquel Padilla was dis...

Like the zombies in “Night of the Living Dead” who will not die, the notion of a big, sloppy deal for Microsoft to buy Yahoo is revived yet again in an article in The Wall Street Journal today. Unfortunately for both Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT), it mostly serves to point out once a...

I went to the show at Club Fred last night and had a really shitty time. read more...

Throughout my blog (if you have read it for the past 19 months!), I have made references to the fact that I used to write for diet magazines - hell, I used to DIET! And is only 19 months ago......

As a reminder of sorts, Record Store Day is tomorrow, with hundreds of independent retailers sticking it to the man for at least one day. With in-stores galore from Metallica at Rasputin's in San Francisco to Mates of State at a Newbury Comics location, there's plenty of reason to head out tomorrow,...

Nothing says it’s springtime in Las Vegas like the pool party and the 2008 season has officially gotten underway this month. Here’s a look at the various top spots to party in the sun this year - just be sure to bring lots of money and sunscreen: Bare at the Mirage opened a few weeks ago...

Are you a designer? Working at home? I am. And I do. And for the most part I feel safe. Double locks brought from the UK on the front door. Keys that can’t be copied and all. Security compound with 24/7 guards. Guards who insist on walking the Pizza delivery boy on and up. Then today I had a pest ...

Hillbilly Report Glendale, Kentucky February 2, 2008 www.ditchmitchky.com www.bluegrassroots.org Hillbilly Report Videos McConnellism At Work: Dick Cheney's secret Energy Task Force meeting held in in 2001 is paying dividends for the big oil companies. Exxon is making more than $75,000......

Hillbilly Report Glendale, Kentucky January 24, 2008 www.ditchmitchky.com www.bluegrassroots.org Yesterday I went to Paducah, Kentucky to find out what the hell is going on with Heather Ryan. I called Mike Watt, a Western Kentucky progressive activist, better known as kilowat,......

Blognapped from boredlist: Come on and Blog at this site add anything you think of.  Stories to stir someone else's memory, real life, fairy tales, whatever. 1.  the worst thing I've ever done..... Ignoring this blind guy in my class, because I didn’t think he could see me. 2.  when...