Category: Politics

On the causeway to neverwhere

December 19th, 2005
Finals are over! I just need grades to be posted, and my blood pressure and pulse rate can go back down to "dangerously high" from their current "absurdly high" level, and I can get the last of my paperwork in to be an official-like Sooner again. As i… more »

525,600 is only applicable in non-leap years

November 29th, 2005
Come December 6th, it's on. I got to see Rent with Jennie this week. I was really impressed. With the possible exception of some really weird backdrops in what was supposed to be Santa Fe, and a lack of homeless dancers, it was an all-around good ti… more »

The ole' bait and switch

November 1st, 2005
What follows is some analysis of Scott McClellan's characterization of what constitutes experience and qualification to be a Justice of the United States. We begin back when Ms. Miers was the heir-riet apparent. 10/05/2005: ...one of the nation's top… more »

These are the Tates, and these are the Campbells, and this is Soap.

October 3rd, 2005
The real Jessica Tate was not from Texas. Even with the geography stacked against her, though, the faux Jessica "Jessi" Tate seems eminently reasonable in her own regard. Tragically, while doing much for helping Doug Whatever-his-last-name-is's sense o… more »

Hope cometh in the morning, Bartlet tells us

September 2nd, 2005
While tornados can be pretty upsetting and can certainly wreak their own forms of havoc, I'm sitll pretty sympathetic to an entire major city that has found itself in a great deal of trouble. I'm falling victim, too, to combinations of "monkeysphere" ph… more »