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NPR News Better than Corporate Media News?

For years I have used NPR (Radio) and BBC (Internet and TV) as excellent news sources because most corporate owned “mainstream” media news sources in the U.S.A. have become lame at best (CNN, NBC, CBS), and outright neo-conservative propaganda machines for their corporate owners at worst (FOX, ABC). About the time the tyranny of Bush […]

Caught the Crud

Well, I caught the crud that’s going around. I perpetually have stuffed and useless sinuses the last few years, which is a shame because I used to be known for a shockingly keen sense of smell, though certainly not anytime recently. Wednesday morning I awoke at about 3 am with a dry and pasty tongue […]

Judge Alito? No thank you!

Here is an interesting editorial from the New York Times about what Judge Alito has revealed in three days of hearings. The democracy is already at stake without this puppet of Imperial Presidency on the bench, we need to stop this appointment now. Please contact your senators (yes both of them) immediately.

Where are our delegate’s priorities?

So in their first days in session for the new year, Virginia’s legislature decided to prioritize new bills to address Virginia’s biggest problems first, right? Wrong. Instead our elected law makers spent the a day debating the merits of amending our state constitution to ban gay marriage. Why? Gay marriage is already illegal. Do we […]