Archive for November, 2010
Sites I Visit
My daily clearinghouse for what’s going on in the world continues to be Atrios.
For a passionate working class perspective, it’s always Susie Madrak. I often visit her site before atrios, as a matter of fact. I don’t agree with her on everything, but she has a pretty good record of being right.
For minute analysis, [...]
Revenge of the Van
After completing the $5.00 repair on the van, which had shut me down on the George Washington Bridge in the middle of the 1998 post-Thanksgiving rush, my vehicle was a lot more reliable (although every once in awhile the engine had this strange way of continuing to crank a few times after I shut the [...]
Read More..>>Draggin’ Me Back In
A lot of you may not know i went through a fairly extensive Phish period in the early 1990s: later than their small-club years, but well before the stadium years. Grabbing the video below got me poking around youtube, and… well, here’s tweezer. I forgot what a ripping tune this is. great jam.
Part 1
part 2
Although [...]
Fetus In a Jar
Phish, “Sample in a Jar
Thanks to the Bush Family, I’ve had “Sample in a Jar” in my head all day, with the word “fetus” replacing “sample”. here’s why:
One of the most shocking passages from former President George W. Bush’s memoir is the one in which he describes his mother having a miscarriage when he [...]
Brendan Calling: Way Ahead of the Pack
Me, January 25, 2010:
I have a proposal to save the rotting hulk of the United States.
No, no, I don’t mean the country. I mean the S.S. United States, that glorious liner that’s decaying slowly on Pier 82 off Columbus Boulevard, where it’s been dry-docked for over a decade. It was the fastest ocean liner ever [...]
Squeaky Wheel
I was emailing and calling Senator Bob Casey’s office all last week about the problems with the TSA, and on Thursday I got an unexpected call from his Harrisburg office. For the next twenty minutes or so, I spoke at length with Sarah Newman, a constituent advocate, about my concerns and suggestions for TSA.
I pointed [...]
“Learn, Goddamn It!”
Someone re-program the president:
President Obama’s hopes of ratifying a new arms control treaty with Russia by the end of the year appeared to come undone on Tuesday as the chief Senate Republican negotiator moved to block a vote on the pact, one of the White House’s top foreign policy goals, in the lame-duck session [...]
Following Up with Senator Casey
Dear Ms. Newman and Ms. Schimer:
Yesterday I wrote to you about TSA’s abuse of American citizens and our children, and the disappointing response of the office, which made it sound as if Senator Casey is not concerned that the TSA is abusing its authority. I spoke again this morning with staff member Tayeesha, and she [...]
AT LAST, COMMON GROUND!!
Looks like the right wingers hate TSA too.
But I think only one of them admits that this is a Bush creation.
UPDATED: the Tribune pulled the video from youtube. Luckily, information wants to be free.
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Read More..>>Conversation With Bob Casey’s Office on TSA
Riiiiiiing….riiiiiiiiiing
“hello, Senator Bob Casey’s office, Tayeesha speaking.”
“Hi Tayeesha, my name’s Brendan Skwire. I’m a constituent calling from Philadelphia, and I have a number of concerns for the Senator related to the TSA.
“I’ve spent the weekend reading a number of disturbing articles about the TSA” I quoted from Goldberg’s most salient piece:
During a trip last Sunday [...]
