elcid89's blog

and so it goes
The California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage Thursday, saying sexual orientation, like race or gender, "does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny...
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let's have lunch with donald rumsfeld
The Pentagon recently (after being forced) released an audio recording of a lunch Donald Rumsfeld attended with retired military analysts (you know, the army of talking heads that seem to be kept perpetually...
May. 14, 2008

the death of the eisenhower republican
There was a time, barely remembered today, when the idea of bipartisanship really seemed reasonable. There was once a kind of Republican, now driven to the verge of extinction, called the "Eisenhower...
May. 14, 2008

harbingers and portents ...
Yesterday, Democratic candidate Travis Childers beat a Republican in a special election to determine who would fill the Congressional seat from the Mississippi 1st. Thus converting to Democratic...
May. 14, 2008

sober reality ...
Let me say first of all that my intention in writing this is neither to inflame tensions nor to turn Dems against one another. It's simply, and solely, to take an objective look at the electoral situation...
May. 13, 2008

by request for historian (et al) - our family bloody mary recipe
Be warned - this makes ~2 gallons of mix.   (No, we're not alkies ...)   3 - 64oz Containers of Campbell's Low Sodium Tomato Juice 4 - 10oz cans of Campbell's...
May. 13, 2008

boredom - day 1
I'm somewhat at a loss, given that today is the first real day of retirement for me.  I haven't really figured out creative ways to fill up the time yet. We move later in the year, but until...
May. 13, 2008

something to consider ...
or Elcid's brain working overtime at 4 in the morning ...   I've noticed a recent trend where certain Christian posters are attacking atheists while strangely choosing to ignore all...
May. 12, 2008

not the brightest strategy in the world ...
Conservative legal advocates are recruiting pastors nationwide to defy an IRS ban on preaching about politicians, in a challenge they hope will...
May. 11, 2008

tv preachers ... yay!
Smorgas reminded me about someone I hadn't thought about in a long while - the Rev. Ernest Angley. I used to garner great enjoyment from his television programs. Betweem the cheap suit, the really...
May. 9, 2008