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Who are the idiots that began this torch business?

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The Greeks started the Olympic flame business, but the people to start running this stupid candle around the world were the Nazi’s before the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany. (…)

Lieberman campaign clogged its own tubes

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Okay, in 2006 when Joe Lieberman was sucking wind because of all the body blows he was getting from Ned Lamont, his Democrat primary opponent, he blamed the Lamont the campaign of dirty tricks when the Lieberman server died. (…)

Blog Action Day: The Environment

When I read that the topic for Blog Action Day was the environment I knew almost immediately that I was going to write about my trip to Germany this past summer. (…)

Representing a community in local media

I help Valley Free Radio, a low-power FM (LPFM) station in Northampton, MA, with their Website and other Web related issues. (…)

Mike Gravel: a post-modern guy

Here is the most . . . interesting presidential campaign ad maybe in history. (…)

Why Non-Profits Annoy Me

Fund raising by non-profits drives me crazy. I don’t think non-profits take the task very seriously, are not bold enough, and annoy people by living from fund drive to fund drive. (…)

Gasoline And Fun

My partner and I want to travel to the upper peninsula of Michigan to visit a friend this summer, but the 2,300 mile round trip cost has caused us pause; is the $300+ bill for gas (just gas), worth the three or four days we’ll spend visiting? (…)

Speaking Truthiness To Power

Dave Pell didn’t like the speech Stephen Colbert delivered at the White House Correspondent Dinner a couple of days ago; as Dave said, he was waiting for “someone to make reference to Bea Arthur’s dick and it never happened.” And it shouldn’t have. (…)

MLK’s Springfield College address

On June 14, 1964, in Springfield, Massachusetts (my birthplace), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the commencement address to the graduating class at Springfield College. (…)

Truth in the USA

What is a truth commission? (…)

Frog Marching

Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife was outed as a CIA operative (NOC–non-official cover), has defended his wife saying that “At the end of the day, it’s of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove _*frog-marched*_ out of the White House in handcuffs.” Frog-marched? (…)

Our crime against humanity

I am going to float a proposal: let us now start proceedings against President George W. (…)

Santorum’s AP interview

What follows is an unedited section of the Associated Press interview, taped April 7, with Sen. Rick Santorum, R-PA. (…)

D.H. Rumsfeld poetry 4

Here is the latest gem from our Secretary of War, D.H. Rumsfeld, recited this past Tuesday.
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The never ending war

Asked whether Syria could face military action if it does not turn over Iraqi leaders, Bush said: “They just need to cooperate.”

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