Deep Thought

Once again we see another disturbing example of why we need some kind of universal coverage: A twelve year old boy dies of a toothache with...

This week, while I was away on a series of (both political and non-political) meetings, the Bush administration went ahead and cleared the w...

During the 2000 Presidential campaign, John McCain, while expressing opposition to abortion, said that if his daughter wanted an abortion, h...

We've by now seen the news reports that a terrorist donated large amounts of money to the Republican Congressional Committee . The man, ...

On the Senate vote to end the filibuster and move forward with the nonbinding resolution opposing the President's troop increase plan fo...

It's tough being homeless. Last week I reported on the dumping of a homeless paraplegic out onto the street with no wheelchair in Los An...

I've gotten a number of interesting posts in my mailbox from a discussion on Arizona blog net. It seems that a few people are punting a...

It's happened to a lot of people. It's happened to me. I have gone to a website that had nothing pornographic about it, hit the wron...

Never unpredictable, our President has proposed, in his attempt to balance the budget while preserving his massive tax cuts and fighting the...

Sadly, this isn't the first time I've had to blog on Los Angeles hospitals' unique way of dealing with the homeless. In fact, in...

While all the focus is (still) on Iraq, it seems like no one is paying attention to 'the forgotten war' in Afghanistan. Like Iraq, t...

It seems that Texas, not happy with being the number one state in the country in executions is the latest state to propose the death penalty...

Today while discussing the Super Bowl, Rush Limbaugh went into a tirade about how the media wanted Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman to...

2006 was a bad year for the Republican party in Arizona. Arizona was one of three states west of the Mississippi river where the GOP lost mu...

But I've seen how some (mostly right leaning sites) have pitched a hissy fit over the latest round of glitches to hit blogger. So let me...

Molly Ivins died yesterday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was sixty two. I thought about a lot of things I could say about her....

Today I listened again to Rush for a little while (not much else to listen to up here, out of range for most radio). He tried to compare the...

If there is one word I really loathe, it is the 'n' word. I can honestly say that my parents taught me early on never to use that wo...

There is crime and there is crime. A 21-year old woman went to Tampa police and reported that she had been raped. They began an investigatio...

What would you think of a law that makes pensions both more opaque and reduces the requirement for who can manage them? In the old days, tha...