Daily Archives: 31/01/2006

state of the onion: bush is a rank git

The smug grin. The hyperbole. The need to repeat the same drivel again and again and again. Yup – it’s BushCo delivering their annual report…. er, State of the Union. He is, of course, leaving out a lot of details: the fact that other Presidents who’ve used FISA have obtained the necessary warrants, the fact

cd playback 2006: day 7

More musical fun after a warm January day (believe me, this warm winter weather is driving me nuts – where’s the damn snow?). N: The Best of New Grass Revival – New Grass Revival O: One More Song: An Album For Club Passim – various artists P: Hang On Little Tomato – Pink Martini The

post cloture unwinding

There has been a lot of talk – angry, horrfied, mournful, scornful, confused, raging, screaming, crying, swearing to the heavens, damning to hell, pouring gasoline on electronic personae and lighting them ablaze, reaching out with a comforting blanket – about the fact that Senate Democrats couldn’t block cloture on the debate about the confirmation of