§ Politics
The BBC is reporting that the significance of the impending US and British handover of power in Iraq is not nearly as telling as the number of American humvees needed in the savaged country. According to the article, The Iraqi Interim Government will suffer from four outstanding limitations: It will be appointed not elected It will have no powers to... more
§ Rant
Everyone knows that it’s difficult to call one job worse than any another. The job you find endlessly fulfilling may define some else’s idea of cotton-picking. Yet I do believe there is a way to qualify whether a job simply sucks: If you can’t help but be pissed off by another person simply following your job description, then your job... more
§ Politics
I know the year is still young, and the coming election will offer much of the same to pick from, but the April 3rd edition of The Economist may be the best magazine cover of the year. Do Mess with Texas Headlined “Better ways to attack Bush” the cover points an array of stinging puns at George W. Bush’s... more
§ Ego
The odd part about staring down the long end of a quarter-century is that I definetly feel old, but not in a bad way. I admit, I find aging more of perplexing experience rather than a depressing situation. It’s as if I’ve suddenly discovered that I have an incrementally more complicated world to deal with and am now a bit... more