Monthly Archives: January 2007

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! I was born in 1978, called today Lee-Jackson-King Day as a kid, and had no idea what segregation was until I attended Caroline County Middle School (the old black high school) after having attended … Continue reading →

…to the Virginia Blog Carnival! Yes folks, I will be hosting the best-o’-the-best in Virginia on Monday. So if you have a new blog, a great post, or something you’d like to share with the good people of the Commonwealth, … Continue reading →

The hypocrisy of this should just make your head explode: Rice appeared before the Senate in defense of President Bush’s tactical change in Iraq, and quickly encountered Boxer. ‘Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price,’ … Continue reading →

This should be huge for soccer in the United States, but I’m sure footballers from Europe are going to love the culture shock when they discover soccer here is about as popular as NFL Europe is back in the Old … Continue reading →

Remember the Hale-Bopp Comet back in 1997? Well, there’s another more recently discovered comet that is coming close to Earth, supposedly three times as bright and the best opportunity to see one like it in 32 years: The newly discovered … Continue reading →

D.J. McGuire opens up with both barrels on Jim Webb’s idea of bringing in Syria and Iraq into negotiations for “peace”: I’ll address each “outcome” in turn. First, whether this “overarching diplomatic solution” will “enable us to withdraw our combat … Continue reading →

Rev. Gerald Zandstra from the Acton Institute makes the argument against the minimum wage hike, and it’s a compelling one: People making $5.15 will soon be paid $7.15. Everything else will remain the same. But this simply isn’t the case. … Continue reading →

Scooby Doo creator Iwao Takamoto has passed away: Takamoto, who was born in Los Angeles in 1925, spent part of the war in an internment camp, where he received some informal illustration training from fellow Japanese-Americans. After the war he … Continue reading →

…and they’ll build themselves a hammock: In a concession to the Senate’s new Democratic majority, four of President Bush’s appeals court appointees have asked to have their nominations withdrawn, Republican officials said Tuesday. Several appeals court confirmations were left in … Continue reading →

Red meat! This is an excellent improvement on the LIS we’ve currently been muddling through (an improvement in itself, and for it’s time). Muchos thanks, Waldo. I’m sure I’ll be using up all sorts of bandwidth searching through this!