USA Consistently Dominates Olympics

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

A local blogger posted a cartoon from a newspaper that effectively calls American's fat lazy slobs.  The comparison was made by showing a Canadian Curler and an American hyper-obese couch potato eating cheese curls.  The blogger was probably projecting, but I have been following the medal count and the USA ...

New York Times: Whoops! We were wrong.

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

In the October 22, 2006 issue of the New York Times, Public Editor Byron Calame finally admits that the disclosure of the S.W.I.F.T. banking data collection program was not a good idea: This is essentially what I said on a local liberal blog about 4 months earlier: So, in the meantime, because ...

Fair and Balanced

Friday, September 15th, 2006

This letter in today's Amarillo Globe news made me thank once again that I believe in personal responsibility. James Fluegel says, among other things, "It is time conservatives who backed Bush on the Iraq misadventure admit we were deceived and wrong." His LTE says a lot of other stuff and ...

Energy Independence

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

I read a story last week sometime about some guys over in Ireland claming to have invented a free energy source saying, "Mobile phones will never need recharging, cars will never have to be refueled."  All of this sounds cool but I am curious how they are breaking the laws ...

Lies?!?!

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Recently the question was asked, "Why does the Globe-Republican (Amarillo Globe News) allow letter writers to blatantly lie?"  I would like to ask the newspaper the same question in regards to Jayne Farris' recently published letter. Ms. Farris makes many outlandish claims that can be construed as lies, willful ignorance, brain ...

The KKK Rally Downtown

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

The KKK rally was quite eventful, I thought.  There were lots of people there inlcuding observers, supporters, and counter protestors.  This is one of the first photos I took as the people coming to shout down the KKK were marching in from the post office. This Character was the most notable individual ...

KKK Rally This Wekend

Friday, August 4th, 2006

This Saturday a KKK group from San Angelo will be at city hall protesting illegal immigration.  If previous news reports are any indication this will be quite the event.  In the paper today there is word that there is going to be a counter protest held to shout down the KKK and their message. Alternatively, ...