Daily Archives: 09/09/2005

freedom takes a walk – or does it?

Isn’t it nice to know that the America Supports You Freedom Walk will have the following restrictions: Only pre-registered participants may walk the route. A four-foot-tall security fence along the route will prevent non-registrants from joining the walk. The press will be limited to three “pens” along the route, no more. Of course, the Department

shoulder: no more sling!

Went to see the orthopedist yesterday afternoon for my two-week (really three-and-change-week) follow-up appointment. He looked at my MRI scans and was dumbfounded: my ligaments are completely intact, my cartliage fine, my muscles fine, and my bones merely bruised. Given that I had a posterior dislocation (arm was pushed out of socket, versus the more

michael and the giant crock of manure

I remember when everybody (myself included, at the time) was lambasting President Clinton in 1993, saying that his cabinet and their staff were too green, too inexperienced. And they admitted as much, grew into their positions, and eventually proved to be very, very effective. Today, the Washington Post reveals the truth that most of BushCo’s

nola: baker’s freudian slip

It’s remarkably frightening – and remarkably sad – when a Louisiana congressman (Rep. Richard Baker – R-LA) from Baton Rouge (just up the road from NOLA) has this to say about the effects of Hurricane Katrina: “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.” That’s sick and