Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Not on the top of the ticket anyway. Link.
I don’t know Rice’s politics. I do know that she is a Bush toady, and a war glutton. So, I couldn’t support her if she did run. But, wouldn’t it be nice to show our country is grown up enough to elect a non-white [...]

I’m gonna get my wife and both of my daughters a copy!

My friend Alice gave an interview with the North Carolina based Pensito Review about Tennessee Politics. You can find it here. What I like about Alice is that she is so dang smart. The interview is a pretty good summary of the prospects in Tennessee for the November election [...]

Maybe.

… or not.
Apparently, my work place is a particularly fertile ground for e-mail forwards, especially the political and religious, and often of a rather mean-spirited nature. One that hits my inbox fairly regularly is the story of the eight-year old Iranian boy whose punishment for stealing bread is to have his arm crushed by [...]

I mentioned the organizational meeting for the campaign against the anti-marriage amendment last week.
This is an update. The coordinator came down from Nashville to help set a Chattanooga organization in motion. I feel she was disappointed - while we had some turnout for the meeting, we did not leave with a volunteer [...]

Harvesting stem cells without harming the embryo may be a technique that circumvents the so-called ethical problems with using discarded IVF embryos to enhance life-saving research.
Now, we can unfreeze the embryos, get the stem cells, re-freeze them, and then throw them in the incinerator.
The sentence you just read is full of snark. Don’t take [...]

Interesting Salon (click through the ad to read the article) piece on false confessions. Hat tip, Hippy Dave.

My bloviations on stone walls prompted an email response from a professional who works in the dry stone medium, James Asbury. He pointed me to a project at the Pennsylvania College of Technology that he’d completed, from which I’ve grabbed the photo below. Check out the rest: no mortar, just stones, artfully arranged. [...]

Boortz has a global warming response on his site today.
It’s all about slowing down our blistering economy.
After all, the Dow is up 835 points since 2000.