The Soul of Democracy is Dying! Bill Moyer speaks: ‘Something is deeply wrong with politics today,’ I told anyone who would listen. And I wasn’t referring to the partisan mudslinging, or the negative TV ads, the excessive polling or the…

Google news has a new look The still-in-beta Google News just launched with a totally new look and feel, more information, and a more readable layout. It pulls news from 4,000 sources and features a truly smart and useful news…

Ah, summer in the San Fernando Valley Summer you say?  It’s late September, how could it still be summer?  Well, here in the Valley, September can be the hottest month. That said, it was one hundred and freakin’ eight degrees…

Priorities Israel is reducing the PLO headquarters to rubble, the prospect of war in Iraq draws closer, so what is national TV news leading with?  The mom who beat her kid.  Maybe we all need to watch the video again,…

New idea for free advertising Stray dogs used as mobile billboards in Russian city Stray dogs are being used as mobile billboards by rival shops in a Russian city.  Shopworkers grab the dogs in the city of Penza after luring…

Gulf War general says Iraq invasion ‘totally unjustified’. London, The Sunday Telegraph: 22-09-2002By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent The officer who commanded the British 7th Armoured Brigade in the Gulf War has revealed that he is strongly opposed to a military…

Begone Microsoft! My current PC is a wheezingly obsolete P3 800 with 512 mb of RAM running Win98.  I’ve been installing new versions of Windows on top of old ones since Windows 3.0.  Thus, I have humungous amounts of clutter on…