Archive for September, 2011
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Oh Maryland, Stupid Maryland Thursday Edition
I don’t throw the phrase “batspit insane” around lightly, but it’s appropriate to describe the Maryland legislators who want to add a new 15.5 cent gasoline tax on top of its already-hefty excise tax. What shoves the idea into crazypants land is that the 15.5 cent tax is only one option. The other is a [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – “Booyah, You Losers” is Undignified Wednesday Edition
I know it’s not seemly to gloat over the misfortunes of your political foes. I tried not to gloat over the beatdown the Democratic Party took at the hands of New York voters in a district that has been held by Democrats since the 1920s, a seat once held by Democrat all-stars such as Anthony [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Blogging vs Journalism Tuesday Edition
My friend Anna asked an interesting question about blogging vs journalism on Twitter and collected some interesting responses. I don’t think anyone hit on the right answer, or at least the answer that matches my observation, and my answer really was too snide but I didn’t have a lot of time to give a more [...]
You Can Call It “Tea Party”, but That Doesn’t Make It Tea Party
I didn’t watch the Presidential debate last night. I even shut down my Twitter feed so I wouldn’t have to spend an hour ranting about it. Oh, I wouldn’t have had a problem with the candidates. I think they’ll all acquit themselves just fine and, if I need to, I’ll read the debate transcript tomorrow [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Linkless Post Monday Edition
For the first time since I started the Clearing the Browser Tabs posts, I find myself bereft of tidbits to pass along. I admit, once I wrote my two 9/11 posts yesterday, I was pretty much finished with the whole notion of reading the internet for blogging purposes. So…what to do? Hey, I know! How [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Ten Years Later and I Still Will Not Submit, 9/11 Sunday Edition
Lan Astaslem, in Arabic, means “I will not submit”. Michelle Malkin has adopted it as a motto for how she lives her life as a citizen of the greatest nation history has ever known. I believe I’ll adopt it myself. I rarely tell my story of 9/11, not because it’s traumatic but because I believe [...]
9/11, The New Tet
Ten years ago, soldiers acting on the fatwa, the declaration of war, by the leader of a group bent on the conquest and subjugation of the Western world attacked pre-selected targets in New York City and Virginia. They chose these targets — the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the White House — because they [...]
The Delivery Presents – Two Shows in Once Post? Is This Madness?
Somehow, and I’m completely willing to blame this on a week of events that knocked me completely off-balance for many days, I neglected to post the show notes for Episode 109. Unfortunately, I realized that pretty much right before I sat down to record Episode 110. I decided not to do two separate posts, though, [...]
That’s What You Said