Serenity… an expedition


Archive for March 2nd, 2010

speaking of right wingers…

At least one of my classes seems to be chock full of them. Pro-death penalty, anti-choice and who knows what else besides. There are a few other classmates who seem to be a bit more moderate but I appear to be the only flaming lefty liberal. Whatever happened to college campuses being hotbeds of Marxists, [...]

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Tuesday, March 2nd

“astonishingly nasty” indeed – mccarthyites

Chris Bodenner, filling in for Sully: Liz Cheney ratchets up the disgusting campaign led by Senator Chuck Grassley to impugn DOJ appointees who represented Gitmo detainees. Ackerman: You know, [the lawyers who] provided the representation that the Rehnquist and Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detainees are entitled? And which even the military commissions [...]

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Tuesday, March 2nd

writerly thoughts

You know those people – they say they get up before dawn, grab their coffee and then sit down and clatter out thousands of words before the morning paper even hits the door?   Yeah, that’s not me. I so want it to be but I am not, I have discovered, an early morning writer. [...]

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Tuesday, March 2nd

ebook stuff

I completely missed Black History Month. Missed writing about it, anyway. I’m not terribly surprised, though – it seems the last thing I want to do during Black History Month is write about Black history. General contrariness, I think. Instead, I read a lot. Or downloaded at lot to read, even if not quite yet. [...]

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Tuesday, March 2nd