It’s been one helluva week, folks. In addition to many events of a personal nature taking place, Georgia has been hit with an ice storm. My power went out on Saturday, frying my file server and Internet connection (which still has yet to be fixed; I’m writing this from my school’s library – hint, hint, [...]

WARNING: The following post is not political in nature. It’s…. well…. geeky in nature. You may encounter bizarre technical terms. A joke or two may be made, yet you won’t understand it (example punch line: “So then the Rabbi says ‘Vell, you’d better patch zee kernel and install a newer version of Tulip, first!’ HAHAHAHA!!!!”)
No, [...]

Hey – check it out! I’m jumping headfirst into this new medium…. Podcasting. Click on the button below to download the MP3. I’ll add the enclosure to my RSS feed this weekend (it requires a bit of tweaking MovableType).
Let me know what you think…. it may take a while for me to get the hang [...]

I cannot possibly express how inspired I was by the President’s Inauguration Address. It was simply amazing. Andrew Sullivan sums it up far better than I can:

The speech was a deep rebuke to conservative foreign policy realists. Its fundamental point, it seems to me, is that security is only possible through the expansion of liberty [...]

Due to her quasi-treasonous dog-and-pony show during both the certification of election results and Dr. Rice’s confirmation hearing, I now officially dub the Junior Senator from California, “Barbara Rosenberg-Boxer.”
Have a nice day.

Recently, a friend of mine mentioned that we have, in recent weeks, “redefined foreign Iraqi fighters (translation: “terrorists”) in a manner to whom the Geneva Convention doesn’t apply.”
In no way do I condone the unprovoked torture of POWs at the hands of American troops (the “ticking-time-bomb-terrorist” scenario being a possible exception to this rule). I [...]

Michael J. Totten has a very interesting post on a nasty rumor that is apparently circulating around Arabia regarding westerners and Christmas:

I had a cup of coffee with one of my guides in Ghadames, Libya back in November. He sheepishly wanted to know if a particular rumor about us was true.
“I have heard,” he said, [...]

Dennis hits the nail on the head when it comes to the Republicans and Social Security reform. If I have to listen to one more politician – liberal or conservative – ramble on about this issue without doing anything to fix it, I’m going to blow at least one or two synapses (and let’s face [...]

Howard Zinn has managed to struggle through an entire interview with John Stewart without – not even once – making any coherent point. He made some vague references to Christopher Columbus, George W. Bush, Iraq, and narcodics, somehow under the impression that he was doing a good job of tying them all together.
Watching this fine [...]

“Will there ever be another Republican President of the United States whose certification the Democrats do not challenge?”
Oh, and just in case you were still wondering who is running the Democratic Party these days, check out the supposed motivation behind today’s events:

Four years ago, after the disputed election results in Florida, members of the Congressional [...]