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I was very impressed with Kerry's performance tonight, and as I'm sure most would agree, the man spoke and looked better than the President. Bush, at times, looked like me trying to give a speech I didn't really understand. He rambled, mixed up his words, and couldn't use the time to his advantage. Others have already written great pieces about their take on the debate, and since I don't have much t add. Here you go: Talking Points Memo: If President Bush's current lead is built not upon confidence in...

Sen. Edwards nailed it on the head when he said this Administration "will lie about anything." Our press is in a sad state of affairs. No one asks the hard questions. The Vice President or the Speaker of the House can say ridiculous, un-American things, and the press reports it as the truth. It's good to see, however, that there's at least one newspaper in the world that's willing to take a stand and be honest. I have a new-found respect for the good people at The LoneStar Iconoclast, the...

The Texas Tumbleweed Tour was this morning, hosted by the West Texas Cycling Association. Those of you who live in Lubbock know the kind of luck I had this morning. Since when does it rain in the mornings? It was pouring cats and dogs at 6:30 when I got the bike out and headed over to Mae Simmons for the 8am start. It rained so hard they held the start for 40 minutes waiting for the lightning to pass over. 12.5 miles into the tour, Allen and Justin (two...

This cartoon really sums it up well for me. We let soldiers die, Iraq falls apart, and we're subjected to 10,000 GOP talking heads repeating the same, tired, old lines....

I ran into this today. I thought it was interesting. I can't vouch for the validity of the info, but it's just a nice distraction....

(picture: not really Lubbock, it's Tuscany. not really us, we're fatter) Yesterday, I made my first group ride since getting my bike. My buddy Justin from work (cycling god), Allen Kirk (fellow huffer and puffer), and myself (why did I want to go so far?) went on a 33.5 mile adventure through the Canyon Lakes Trail and out to New Deal and back. Allen and I are both new riders, so this was a pretty big day for us. On Saturday, we're going to be riding in the Tumbleweed...

Chris Anderson, WIRED Editor-In-Chief:"Until now the music industry has had to choose between two poor legal extremes: enforcing restrictive copyright protection or tolerating piracy. The great underexplored middle ground between them is "some rights reserved", which reflects today's real-world relationship between artists and consumers, where file sharing can be good marketing and sampling an homage. Many artists recognize this and simply lack an easy legal way to expressly permit it and decriminalize their fans. Creative Commons aims to provide that, and in doing so offers an important step towards...

update: the memory stick was identified and returned and the site is now gone... I Found Some Of Your Life is a blog devoted to a memory stick found in a taxi. Every picture is being posted, with the author imagining the circumstances and reasons for the pictures. There's one full year of pictures on the memory stick, so it'll be interesting to see the evolution of the story and the pictures. Dianne is loaded. In fact, we all were pretty loaded. Grant is enjoying a clove cigarette. I used...

He is still recognizable, though he has walked with a limp since he lost control of his car last year, crashed into a house at 100 miles an hour and shattered his pelvis. City detectives recognize him. They offer their hands, tell him, "Stay out of trouble, man." Fathers point him out to their children. He still means something. By virtue of his troubled life and a single decent gesture, he is embedded in the American conscience. Rodney King, whose videotaped beating led to the riots that left 55...

They're lucky we made their life better... A highly classified National Intelligence Estimate assembled by some of the government's most senior analysts this summer provided a pessimistic assessment about the future security and stability of Iraq. The National Intelligence Council looked at the political, economic and security situation in the war-torn country and determined -- at best -- the situation would be tenuous in terms of stability, a U.S. official said late Wednesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity. At worst, the official said, were "trend lines that would point...

The iTunes Music Store has gotten quite a great deal of my money in the past three weeks. I'm sure most can identify with the time when you realize all the music you own is stale. You don't listen with amazement and wonder anymore, so you search out new music to live by. I've been more impressed with the folk genre this summer than I ever thought possible. Go ahead and forget every pre-conceived idea of folk you have, because it's not like that. So I present to you: Five...

Al Qaeda is growing, the Muslim world hates us, and we have no friends in the world. 4 more years!!    While some 70 percent of al Qaeda's leadership from the time of the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks has been killed or captured - as Bush and his top aides never cease to remind nervous voters - terrorism experts have been amazed at how quickly the group appears to have reconstituted itself, in part by associating with new "franchises" that have grown like mushrooms, particularly since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in...

for the mean time, comments won't be displayed automagically. i'm having a big problem with comment spam again. until i get typekey registration working, or the mt-blacklist plug-in installed, i'm going to accept comments only in a moderated form. so you'll post and then i'll approve and it will be posted. i know this isn't the best option, but i'm tired of being a billboard for porn and online medication. i think that if you've submitted a comment before, your comment might pass through without the moderation, but new commenters...

    We Should Not Have Allowed 19 Murderers to Change our World     By Robert Fisk     The Independent U.K.     Saturday 11 September 2004     So, three years after the international crimes against humanity in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania we were bombing Fallujah. Come again? Hands up those who knew the name of Fallujah on 11 September 2001. Or Samarra. Or Ramadi. Or Anbar province. Or Amarah. Or Tel Afar, the latest target in our "war on terror'' although most of us would find it hard to locate on a map (look at...

I can already hear the excuses.....

TruthOut has page commemorating the 1000 fallen soldiers. Ask yourself as you look at the pictures: Do I think it's right that our President, who sent these men and women to war, has not attended one single funeral for the 1000+ who have died? 1000 Faces I received this email, shortly after publishing this post. Hey, I didn't want to post this on your website because I didn't want folks to think I was attacking you or being hateful. My cousin was almost killed this week while on special...

I know I'm late to jump on the Mutual Admiration Society bandwagon... But, goodness, how beautiful. For those who don't know know, the Mutual Admiration Society is a collaboration between the members of Nickel Creek and Glenn Phillips. I personally feel like they should give up their solo and stay together forever. I've never heard such beautiful folk/bluegrass. Have a listen: Windmills (Live) - Mutual Admiration Society...

I realized today that I had no idea that Elise's blog had been around for so long. So I got to reading; here's a favorite part of a funny post. However, much like my grocery shopping schedule, or my class-going schedule (well, any schedule, really, who am I kidding), my laundry schedule is somewhat nonexistent. This is where I would link to Emily's blog to exemplify what I do instead of my own laundry, but since, sadly, her blog is gone, I will just say that I get it done....

Dick Cheney never ceases to amaze me with the outrageous and un-American lies he decides to impart of the American people. Granted, he never says it to anybody who thinks differently, after all, you have to sign a pledge of loyalty to get into a Bush/Cheney Campaign event. But honestly, he's saying that if you don't re-elect him, Al Qaeda will attack us again. Go ahead and re-elect this retard if you agree with what he's saying. Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday warned Americans about voting for Democratic Sen....

Since Sunday, 13 more of these stories have been added to the national story book. I guess that number 1000 has already happened, as news doesn't travel too fast. 1000 lives lost over lies and oil. Last night, I listened to George W. Bush's live, televised speech at the Republican National Convention. He spoke to me and my family when he announced, "I have met with parents and wives and husbands who have received a folded flag, and said a final goodbye to a soldier they loved. I am awed...

On Thursday night, President Bush said: "I believe we have a moral responsibility to honor America's seniors.  Now, seniors are getting immediate help." On Friday, his Administration announced the biggest Medicare Premiums hike in the history of Medicare. Now, I don't know who you're voting for or whether you even care about political stuff. But I do, and I really care when the President stands in front of the American people and lies his butt off. He says to the Seniors, "I'm your man, I'm helping you, vote for...

For the past two or three days, I've had a very mild tootache that comes and goes every 6-8 hours. It was nothing bad, just a mild irritation that I was going to have checked out after Labor Day, since it'd be damn near impossible to find a dentist. That all changed last night, when I got home from work and commenced the worst toothache/headache of my entire life. It started out normal, just a little uncomfortable and then transitioned into someone drilling into my jaw bone with a dremel...

Netflix and TiVo want this digital nirvana to arrive as soon as possible, and they are about to join forces to make it happen. Later this month, NEWSWEEK has learned, the companies plan to unveil a simple but significant partnership that could shake up the media world. Subscribers who belong to both services will be able to download their Netflix DVDs over the Internet directly into the TiVo boxes in their homes, instead of receiving them in the mail....

it's easy for us to forget that in many parts of the world, there's a 9/11 every day....

Ken Layne asks: What Conservatives? With the Crystal Methamphetamine Ball I keep for such occasions, I can predict those of you who continue to invent apologies for this government will tell me that logic, responsibility, coherence and competence don't matter a damned bit & never will again, because 3,000 of the 300,000,000 people living in this country were killed by an elusive enemy three years ago, and that for some mysterious reason the current inept administration should be further rewarded for failing to catch the culprits, failing to make this...

As any good American, I actually listen to the President when he speaks. Tonight, I listened and was surprised. First off, I'd like to give George Pataki, Governor of New York, a big pat on the back for giving one of the worst speeches I've ever heard in my entire life. I've never heard someone try so hard to make a point, and fail so miserably at doing it. His whole goal was to bring back 9/11, to remind everyone how awful that day was and how great President Bush...