Gratuitous Video Feed
John Hiatt performs his “Something Wild” on Austin City Limits.
Dept. of Now He Tells Us
Sure, George Bush promotes only partisan loyalists to government office, but his chutzpah still raises eyebrows, as when in December he nominated Sam Fox to the post of US Ambassador to Belgium. Fox is best known as a major donor to the inaptly-named Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, purveyors of the lowest of smear [...]
Universal Health Coverage Now
Until America gets serious about health coverage, guaranteeing it as a right as do other industrialized nations, we are asking for more loss of life, as with twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver, who died of complications from an abcessed tooth:
Eventually, he was rushed to Children’s Hospital, where he underwent emergency brain surgery. He began to have seizures [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I will no more trust him when he leers than I will a serpent
when he hisses.” –Troilus And Cressida, 5.1.99-101
