Brandon - Instablogs
Oct 17 2008
A food processing company with plants in Colorado and Nebraska has fired around 200 Somali Muslims for leaving their work places to attend evening prayers. The sackings took place earlier this month after Brazilian company JBS SA refused to move the...
Oct 16 2008
A price the American people are paying for the failure of the House of Representatives to impeach Bush, Cheney and their cabal for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity — the greatest assaults on peace and human rights of this...
Oct 14 2008
We have just seen the blood letting on Wall Street, which is likely to continue. In the face of this we have seen Gold go up along with a greater demand for buying and storing gold as bullion items. We have also seen the dollar climb in value, which is...
Oct 11 2008
While the U.S. Senate predictably capitulated to the demands of Wall Street last night, for the first time in recent memory the House listened to the American people and blocked Paulson’s bailout of his rich buddies by US taxpayers. The same House...
Oct 8 2008
Internet memes are pretty popular these days, but they have always been around and they have always been irritating. One of the oldest Internet memes goes like this:
Oct 8 2008
I have, in the past, had the good fortune of helping the police with their enquiries. I don’t mean that in the euphemistic sense of “arrested but not yet charged” but in terms of answering technical questions such as “Does this record in this...
Oct 7 2008
The works of David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide September 12, are famous for their obsessively observed detail and emotional nuance.
Oct 7 2008
When I was a kid during the 1950’s there were rumors in Hollywood and therefore the entire USA, that Rock Hudson was a homosexual, a
Sep 27 2008
This was one of the most satisfying moments of the entire debate — Barack Obama stepping up to the plate and telling John McCain that he was wrong on Iraq.
Sep 27 2008
One of the principles I try to convey to my students of military history and culture is that the fundamental, central experience of the soldier is to kill or be killed. All other activities of military personnel are designed to support that focal act.