New Scalito Document Welcomes Opportunity to Overturn Roe V. Wade

People For the American Way

This man is not the person to replace Sandra Day O'Connor:

In the memo (available here), Alito advises the Administration to:
- file a brief in the case, even though the Administration was not a party to In the memo (available here), Alito advises the Administration to:
- file a brief in the case, even though the Administration was not a party to the suit, and had no role to play save for ideology.

- use the brief to promote “the goals of bringing about the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, and in the meantime, of mitigating its effects.”

- “make clear” to the Supreme Court that we “disagree with Roe v Wade,” and “would welcome” the opportunity to brief the issue of overturning it.

- support the tactic of using extremely restrictive state laws such as those in Pennsylvania to discourage women from seeking safe, legal abortions. (In fact, the Supreme Court said that provisions of the Pennsylvania law “comes close to being state medicine imposed upon the woman.”)the suit, and had no role to play save for ideology.

- use the brief to promote “the goals of bringing about the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, and in the meantime, of mitigating its effects.”

- “make clear” to the Supreme Court that we “disagree with Roe v Wade,” and “would welcome” the opportunity to brief the issue of overturning it.

- support the tactic of using extremely restrictive state laws such as those in Pennsylvania to discourage women from seeking safe, legal abortions. (In fact, the Supreme Court said that provisions of the Pennsylvania law “comes close to being state medicine imposed upon the woman.”)

Scalito, meet Mr. Buster - Mr. Phil A. Buster.

Nothing Like The Moral High Ground

The Washington Monthly > WaPo
Pace v. Rumsfeld:

When UPI's Pam Hess asked about torture by Iraqi authorities, Rumsfeld replied that "obviously, the United States does not have a responsibility" other than to voice disapproval.

But Pace had a different view. "It is the absolute responsibility of every U.S. service member, if they see inhumane treatment being conducted, to intervene, to stop it," the general said.

Rumsfeld interjected: "I don't think you mean they have an obligation to physically stop it; it's to report it."

But Pace meant what he said. "If they are physically present when inhumane treatment is taking place, sir, they have an obligation to try to stop it," he said, firmly.

Also, Rumsfeld doesn't want them called "insurgents" anymore. That lends them legitmacy, you see. So he sent out the word to the press to come up with a better word. Pace (the new Head JCOS) "couldn't think of a better word right now" (his words).

I think I like this guy.

Lipstick on a Pig: Bush's Latest Try

You're kidding me. You're honest-to-God kidding me. This set looks like some glorified version of Mystery Date. And behind the punchout, pieced together door is our dream Strategy for Victory in Iraq - the same thing we've been doing. Which is the definition of insanity, right?

We've got to get a message to George. This is beyond "trying to get his message across to us one more time". This is "send W down the river without a paddle". Everybody in his administration knows that somebody's going to be the fall guy for it all. There's a poster for this administration looking for a child. And whoever approved this set is going to make damn sure it is not them.

Mr. President? These people trying to "help" you? They are not your friends.

The "Axis of Libel"

O'Reilly: "We will expose those media which pass along the vicious personal attacks" of "far-left smear sites" [Media Matters]

If you're unfamilar with all this, here's the deal. Every year, a growing War for Christmas is being conducted by Fox News. This is because it plays well to Fox News' base. Some Christians feel threatened by a retail store clerk saying "Happy Holidays" to them. It's as if they've been thrown to the lions for their belief. The rest of us (including a great number of Christians) would like to tell these modern martyrs to suck it up and get over themselves. Yet Fox News knows how to sell ad space, and they've got the faithful watching. So the ever present "War on Christmas" continues to be reported.

Nice, isn't it, how they can report on the War on Terrorism and the War on Christmas at the same time? It's like Bush using every pre-war speech possible to put Saddam and al-Qaeda into the same sentence. It gives a level of plausible deniability ("Hey! We didn't say that Saddam and al-Qaeda had links", though they did.), and the idea gets across. The vast majority of American believed that Saddam had given some kind of assistance to the 9/11 attack. That was pure hokum, perpetrated by the weaselly words of PR, and it's that very same technique being used now by Fox, dang their hides. Bill is calling for a "coalition of the willing" to fight this secular movement.

During the November 28 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly decried what he described as the abandonment of the phrase "Merry Christmas" and called for "a coalition of the willing to fight against this secular movement." He accused financiers George Soros and Peter Lewis of being "the money men behind the secular curtain," because they "have financed a number of websites which routinely attack those with whom they disagree in the most vile ways." O'Reilly then threatened to "expose those media which pass along the vicious personal attacks." He predicted that "[t]he defamation pipeline that has been cleverly devised will collapse," and then stated, "This is what the culture war is all about."

O'Reilly made a similar threat in the wake of Media Matters for America's exposure of his remarks regarding the city of San Francisco. In discussing a resolution San Francisco voters passed on November 8 to discourage military recruitment on campuses of public schools and colleges, O'Reilly said: "[I]f Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead." In response to the firestorm of protest against these comments, O'Reilly blamed "far-left smear websites" and "Internet guttersnipes" for reporting his statements. He stated: "[H]ere's what I'm going to do, ladies and gentlemen, every minion that does that, every one is going to be exposed on The Radio Factor, the television Factor, and on our website, BillOReilly.com. Every one who carries their water, I'm going to put their face up there, their name up there, and tell you exactly what they're doing. So you know in your town who's doing it."

Following up on his threat, O'Reilly has posted on his website a list of "media operations [that] have regularly helped distribute defamation and false information supplied by far left websites."

Could he be any more transparent? Sites like Media Matters have been a thorn in his side, precisely because they report the things that he says (always referenced to the transcript or the video tape - because transcripts sometimes get the memory hole treatment) and call him on it. Well, Bill O'Reilly has had enough of that. So in the name of protecting Christmas, Bill's going to get back at the people who are trying so desperately to keep him and other Fox correspondants honest.

His list is here, and it's small. As of this moment, there's only the New York Daily News, The St. Petersburg Times, and MSNBC on it. Only three "media operations [that] have regularly helped distribute defamation and false information supplied by far left websites"? Surely these are the most egregious of the three, an "Axis of Libel", if you will.

I'm worried, though. "Regularly distribute defamation and false information"? "Dishonest and not worth your time"? Sounds like somebody's asking for a lawsuit. But Bill's filed lawsuits before, and it hasn't gone well for him. He discovered at the hands of Al Franken that it's so much better to be the defendant in the lawsuit, particularly when he's just trying to defend the honor of Christmas. Being able to slander the people who record your every word and bust you on your outright spin and deception is strictly icing on the cake.

Bill O'Reilly: what a piece of work.

I Updated The Blogroll

I had just transferred the blogroll over from Bolo Boffin sight unseen. And it had been a year or so since I checked those links. So of course blogtopia (y!sctp!) has rolled on, in many various and unexpected ways.

The first thing I saw was the loss of several good blogs. Kuhwaver no longer chronicles, and idols of the marketplace is a domain up for sale. Hell, even the Quaker in a Basement threw up a Canadian calling card ad.

A second thing: what the hell was I thinking about some of these links? To wit: early on in my blogging life as Bolo, I ran across an interesting site. It looks very well put together, and it supported Israel. Well, I support Israel. I also support the Palestians, and I think that some way of getting along with each other can be found, even if it means locking up the extremists on both sides of the issue. So I linked to the site.

It was Little Green Footballs.

All I know is, I must have surfed by on their tamest day ever.

Now today I'm going through and I'm finding - well, not so egregious an error as LGF, but some dandies. War bloggers that openly deride the Democratic Party, mostly. I don't know why I ever linked to them. Maybe somebody got my password.

Also: sorting errors. Some of these blogs are hard to catagorize, especially in the areas I'm blogging. Mine would be mostly political, so that's where I'd expect to be. But I had Margeret Cho in Memetics, when she's clearly a political blogger. The same with Juan Cole, who was in Religion. Religion? Juan Cole? Gad, my brain...

Also, many blogs had shuffled around, much like me. ShiaPundit is now City of Brass, and the religious content is much more pronounced there, so it's in Religion. The Meme Machine is now titled Debate Unlimited. ReDefeatBush.org is now Left.org. The Hamster is now blogging for Al Franken. And the Republic of T has traded up for nicer looking digs.

And then the new additions: the straight-to-the-top-of-the-charts firedoglake, the inclusive TPMCafe, and Media Matters. Maybe Bill O'Reilly will put me on his enemies list. God knows I could use the publicity.

So anyway, the blogroll is current - all the links go somewhere that resembles what you think you'd find. Enjoy, and tell them the Inner Cog sent you...

PS: While clicking around, I discovered a new word. It's a religious one, about scholars and grad students blogging about the Christian scriptures. It's biblioblogging (y!wtfctp?). Ah, well...

Wanna Chuckle? Or Laugh Out Loud?

Overheard in New York: The Voice of The City

This site takes submission from people who overhear interesting things in New York. That's all it is. Here's a sample or two:

Teen boy: I did the stupidest thing yesterday.
Teen girl: What?
Teen boy: I went up to the cops with my bag open, and I was like,
"Wanna search me? Wanna search me?" and they were like, "Okay."
Teen girl: Ha, ha. You busted.
Teen boy: Yeah. They took half my condoms but they left everything
else.

--40th Street station

Counter guy: Who is next on line for a sandwich?...Anybody?...Does anybody want a sandwich?...Okay, who wants a salad?...Anybody waiting on line for a salad?....Anybody want anything?...You, what would you like?
JAP: Excuse me, I was next!

--EEE's, East 34th Street

Okay, it's not all funny. Some of it's shocking and sad, but it's all striking. Check it out...

Time To...Sa-ay Goodbye...

Crystal Harmony in Victoria
Originally uploaded by JoeWorldTraveler.

That song will be stuck in my head forever.

The last time we were in Victoria, I walked out along the seawall to get this shot at sunset. The Harmony is scheduled to arrive there tomorrow for dry dock, where I expect it will be in exactly the same place.

There the workers will gut the poor ship. They are probably already ripping out something as they sail. They'll be in Victoria for a month or so, and then take her over to Japan, where she'll be rechristened the Osaku II.

It certainly was a great ship, with an outstanding crew. I'm so lucky to have been a part of her history, even though they kicked me off the last cruise. Heehee!

Hope all of you Harmoniacs check in and say hello. Pass my info around, especially to people I couldn't find on my last day. I love and miss you all.

The Shift To Digital Libraries

FT.com

Will blog later - wanted to post now.

Friday Feast Seventy One

Appetizer

What did you look like when you were a teenager?
I was much thinner than I am now, but I've always felt this heavy.

Salad

Whose advice do you listen to?
I don't listen to a lot of advice. I hear a lot of advice, and I seek out advice giving. But more and more, I find myself only judging the emotional reaction that I might expect if I follow a certain course. Why I'm trying to anticipate emotional reactions, I don't know.

Mostly I look for proper authority and general evenhandedness in an advice giver. If someone just doesn't know what they're talking about, or if they betray wacky assumptions in broad areas of their life, it's hard to take their advice seriously. These are all the reasons that no one should ever listen to a word I say, by the way. I know I never do.

Soup

Name a book you would like to memorize.
On the practical side, the book I'd like to memorize hasn't been compiled yet. It would probably have the title Defining a Career: A Showcase of Plays for the Middle Aged and Older Actor. It would have Death of A Salesman and King Lear; probably Macbeth and The Dresser (for Sir) as well. That way, I could use what's left of my brain learning the roles that I might play in the future. It would be nice to be off book for all of those plays.

However, of the books that are out there right now, I suppose I would pick The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Or 1984 by George Orwell, which is about the same thing for the current American administration. Both books deal with manipulation of people and ideas, something that I am wary of. It's interesting to see how people conspire and wheedle and force others to do their bidding. Often people are blind to their own strategies.

I don't mean to sound as if I'm exempt from all this, and perhaps my choice of book creeps you out. Well, so be it. It's more a defensive choice than an aggressive attempt to learn how to manipulate. I want to know when I'm being manipulated. It helps me maintain a sense of freedom (illusionary or not).

Main Course

How often are you sick?
I am almost never sick. I get head colds. In the past three years I've caught the flu, and dealt with a hacking cough for about a month afterwards. But that's about it. I rarely get headaches, although working for Dell last December, I had my first migrane ever that I'm aware of. The nurse I called about my symptoms had me go to the emergency room for a detached retina! Thankfully, it wasn't that.

But the last time I went to the doctor, he pronounced me obscenely healthy. That's lucky for me.

What a paltry main course!

Dessert

Do you like or dislike change?
I dislike change, but change is inevitable. It's much better to develop a consistent approach to dealing with change, than to resist change.

But isn't resistance to change itself a consistent way of dealing with change? Well, you have to resist it for a while. Change is the wind that will help you get where you want to go - but if you've found where you want to go, change is your enemy. Resistance to unnecessary change is what develops your character. But when the motivation for change becomes overwhelming, you have to lift anchor and navigate to a new harbor.

Change has been my constant companion all my life. I've never been anywhere long; even here in Nashville, going on nine years or so, I've moved around quite a bit. And now the end is near, even here. I'm tired of the ruts I'm in. It's time to find a new pair of ruts. So I must learn to love change once again.

Photo Friday Challenge: Yellow

Joseph Nobles, Intrepid Explorer
Originally uploaded by JoeWorldTraveler.

Juneau, Alaska: We were just about to get into inflatable rafts and ride the mighty Mendenhall. It had been raining, so the water was up - we experienced Class II rapids, with some Class III at stretches. I got water in the face no less than three times, and we're talking glacier-fed river here - cold!

Legally Free Scott Adams Book

God's Debris

Challenge your mind with this book from the author of the Dilbert comic strip. It's his book and he's giving it away in PDF form. It's for personal use alone, though, so I wouldn't recommend printing it off or anything. Just read it.

Greenhouse Gas at Highest Level in 650,000 Years

Telegraph | News

This news story is flying all over right now, but under different titles. The New York Times is running with Rise in Gases Unmatched by a History in Ancient Ice. The LA Times? Antarctic Ice Shows Long Period of Lower Greenhouse Gas Levels. Both of these are blunting the Telegraph's title, which, judging from Google News, is the title going out on the wire story.

Along with this is the story Oceans rise at record rate as industrial age gathers momentum from The Times (UK). It's to the point that Fox News has gotten Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to develop a special on global warming, called The Heat Is On: The Case of Global Warming. It should have been called Maybe There Is Something to All This Global Warming Stuff After All...Heh, Heh. Because the evidence is undeniable, and this story is a button on the whole affair.

Analysis of air bubbles trapped in ice taken from east Antarctica has revealed the stark comparison and the findings will be added to evidence of human interference in the Earth's climate, which has been collected for next week's United Nations' conference on global warming in Montreal, Canada.

The latest sample, or ice core, extends previous records by 210,000 years. It was obtained by the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, and the findings are published in the journal Science today. The scientists, working in severe weather conditions, used a four-inch wide drill bit, in 10ft sections, to bring up ice that was deposited by snows that fell up to 650,000 years ago.

The analysis showed that today's atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, at 380 parts per million, is already 27 per cent greater than previous highs, said Prof Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern, Switzerland. "We have added another piece of information showing that the timescales on which humans have changed the composition of the atmosphere are extremely short compared to the natural time cycles of the climate system."

We must examine the results of our industry. If these results are detrimental to our goals and/or our quality of life, we need to find a safer way to conduct our businesses. This is what responsibility means.

Thursday Challenge: Sound

Splash!
Originally uploaded by JoeWorldTraveler.

The Thursday Challenge for today is a picture that evokes the idea of sound. So I'm choosing this one: a humpback whale crashing back down after breaching.

Don't forget to hear the excited oohs and ahhs of the passengers. We found two whales who were just diving, but then they started breeching and they did so for twenty minutes straight. Everybody got a great picture.

Have whales learned to perform? Do they realize if they just jump around a while, we get all excited and then go away? Are they dislodging plankton after they've fed? Is it something that helps their digestion? Or is it just fun, a pasttime on a lazy warm Alaska afternoon? The whales ain't talking to us about it.

Jesus Going For the Hail Mary

Jesus Going For the Hail Mary
Originally uploaded by JoeWorldTraveler.

This is a test, actually, of the Flickr blogging function. Just to see what it looks like.

And that's really called "Jesus del Caracol" - "Jesus of the Snail?" - and it's in La Paz, Mexico. Yes, I took that picture. Yes, I was there. I'll tell you all about it sometime.

On edit: Well, that looks great. I really like that setup. So now I can also sort through all my photos at Flickr and blog about my world travels, if I'm hard up for a blog post. Excellent. Y'all behave.

Harry Potter - Ack!

Super Heavy Spoilers

Maybe this is just me. I had too many hopes for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as a movie. The graveyard scene in particular - that I had all blocked out in my mind.

Okay, the sheer feat of working that incredibly long book into two and a half hours must be honored. Honor.

And I don't hate the movie either. I'm fighting my own version in my own head, so perhaps it hangs together better than I think. But I found it to be the second-best of the films. Azkaban gets the nod as a overall film experience and connection to the book.

The graveyard scene: I think Cedric should have died quicker, almost as soon as they landed. Give Harry just enough time to recognize the statue, and then wham! Cruciatus and wham! Avada Kevadra. Then let Harry realize Cedric is gone while Wormtail shuffles up with his burden. To me, it would be more shocking if it happens quickly, almost casually. That's the thing for Harry to learn: somebody as good and decent as Cedric Diggory is just an afterthought to Voldemort.

Snape: I've heard it said that Alan Rickman alone knows what the end of his character will be (well, besides J.K., of course). That's the only reason he must be hanging around. He is so WASTED in this movie. One scene, that ends weakly, one scene shows us the Snape we know and love to hate. Otherwise, he's playing Moe to Harry and Ron's Larry and Curly. ARGGGGH! The truly subversive thing in Movie 6: Make Snape the main character! Give this man something to do!

Voldemort: We need to hear that Lilly saved Harry by the old magic of her love. I think that Lord Voldemort telling us this is completely wrong. I think that's something he still doesn't get or simply dismisses.

That said, the celebrated misprint of Lilly and James' appearances out of the wand is handled nicely. Tom Gambon as Dumbledore is fantastic. I really like the way Newell emphasizes the scattershot nature of how the magical world operates. It's almost as if Harry's maturity is now allowing him to see how lame his mentors can be.

As always, just read the books. Blog out.

Welcome Back To Cable Internet

Hee, hee, hee...

The cable guy came today and hooked me back up. I'm mainlining the Internet again!

I've been away, as you know if you read this thing. I've been doing DSL lines in Mexico and Alaska, which were fine. Typing on a Mexican keyboard can be wild (hint: the Alt Grp key is your friend. Hold it down to get the @ sign whatever key the @ sign happens to be on - don't understand? You will if you ever type on a Mexican keyboard), and I've also been playing around with surfing via the wireless card on my Dell Axim 50v. It will do in a pinch, believe me. Just enough sites offer a PDA version to make it worthwhile (amazingly enough, a site that sells PDA software doesn't give a mobile version of their pages! weird...).

But typing on my regular keyboard, browsing with Firefox, and zooming away at cable speeds...there's nothing better. Wuv, twue wuv...

Home Again, Home Again

I'm sitting in my apartment in Nashville, TN.

It's nice to be back, though I need to find a job. Not much has changed: the kitty did want to associate with me, which was nice, and all my friends at ye olde Barn were most welcoming. I do miss the ship a bit, but it was a lot of fun, and here's hoping I can go out again...

Plus all of this Woodward/Murtha revelations. Wow, I'm in a good mood politically. It's nice to see other shoes finally dropping. Here's hoping that the Bush Administration doesn't destroy America while they self-destruct.

I'm on a slow dial-up connection right now, so the post will be lame. Also, I'm thinking, yet again, of shaking up the posting. Bolo Boffin as a Blogger site has file uploading grandfathered in, but none of the new sites I create (like this one) does. So I'm thinking of making Bolo Boffin something called the American Observer. I'd have to keep the boloboffin.blogspot.com address, but I could go register usobs.com somewhere, and use that to advertise the site. The approach would be international in outreach: a running commentary on why we Americans are so crazy. It would be mostly political, thought with the occasional apology for, say, calling green peas "English" peas, or lean round cuts of ham "Canadian Bacon".

Inner Cog would remain a strictly personal and travel blog. When I travel. Or get personal.

Anyway, I'm thinking about it.

Darwin Online

The writings of Charles Darwin on the Web

This is an almost complete collection not only of his books, but of his published essays.

The Last Port of Call

I've been working on a cruise ship now for about five months. It's been really great, and an eyeopening experience, and all that, but I have come to my final port of call - Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. I won't be able to get online until Saturday (maybe Friday, but that will have to be a quick moment in the airport). The cost of going online is prohibitively expensive - I have to pay ten dollars for every megabyte of information transferred...yikes! What a racket!

PV is nice. It's where I spent my birthday this year. My favorite city in Mexico was Loreto, however. A nice quiet beautiful sleepy little town. Plenty of outdoor activities, and no finer place for lying in a hammock, drinking tequila, and scratching your belly could be imagined. I would love to be able to split my year between Haines, AK and Loreto. Maybe one day...

Who knows what the future holds in store? Perhaps I shall come this way again. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for being on the World Cruise offered by Crystal in January. I am an Egypt nut and two different stops in Egypt are planned. Plus Sydney, New Zealand, Easter Island, Capetown (I've been promised a hellacious party if I ever get to Capetown), the Mediteranean, and London. Wow, oh, wow.

If not, a move will be in store for me. By hook or by crook, I've got to bid Nashville adios. Too much life out there to find...

Alito: "The Constitution Does Not Protect A Right To An Abortion"

firedoglake: Last Straw? > Washington Times

This was back in 1985. Alito said in this in a job application to Edwin Meese. It's easy to see why Alito would use such "direct, unambiguous language"; Meese originated the term "jurisprudence of original intent":

According to its adherents, original intent jurisprudence alone can prevent judges from imposing their own views on the Constitution. It does so, they argue, by directing judges to determine the Constitution's meaning not by referring to some "evolving" societal consensus, but simply by asking what the Framers would have thought about a particular constitutional question.

As the Findlaw article quoted goes on to state, originalism is a sham. The back-to-the-Constitution crowd practices just as much subjective rationalization to justify their viewpoints as anyone else.

Is all of this the continuing societal impulse that split the Catholic church then, way back in the days of Martin Luther, a wave of which I found myself involved four hundred years later? There's nothing more firmly planted in my memory than the idea BACK TO THE BIBLE, and the cultural importance of this phrase in America (much less the Christian world) had never adequately been explored, as far as I can find. It is this mindset - of having a ironclad infallible standard by which to guide your every decision - that's being expressed whenever you hear "original intent" or "strict constructionists".

God help us if they ever defeat the liberals. The Supreme Court will at once descend into discussion about grammar, dissecting every jot and tittle of the Constitution while extinguishing its spirit.

Thankfully, Judge Alito has given us a statement quite clear as to its meaning. There is no parsing this statement - Alito is committed to advancing the position that the Constitution grants no right to an abortion. He's now in an impossible position. Does he continue to agree with this statement? If he says yes, he's filibustered. If he says no, he can say hello to Harriet Myers. I wonder what facesaving withdrawal tactic the Bush team will use for this guy...

New Title: The Inner Cog

Okay, so I took my name JOSEPH, and substituted the letters one back, so I could get a couple of vowels. That became INRDOG. However, I went two back from E accidentally, so I thought it was INRCOG. I thought about that, or rather Inner Cog, for a while. It seems a little spiritual. It was definitely different, and easily remembered. I could become the Cogster, or something silly like that.

And then I realized it should be Inner Dog. And that left me a little cold. Are we all dogs at hearts, we men? Yeah, but I'm aspiring here. So Cog it shall remain.

Hey, I was only ever Bolo Boffin because I plugged my name into a Hobbit Name Generator the day before I found The Smirking Chimp and signed up there as my new hobbit name. Enjoy.

That's Not My Blog Title

Insert Witty Blog Title Here is just a reminder to me to actually come up with something. So the two or three of you that link to me because I've transferred my Bolo Boffin blogroll over here: wait a second. Let me come up with a better name.

Greetings and Salutations

It's my first post in my new blog. I used to be Bolo Boffin, but the hobbit routine was tired before I even tried it. Anyway, it's still acerbic little me.

I'm typing this in Santa Rosalia, Mexico. I'm traveling right now as an actor for the Crystal Harmony, the soon-to-be-non-existant ship in the Crystal Cruises cruiseline. Yes, it's a sweet gig. The auditions are in Nashville, Tennessee; drop on by, I'm sure they'd love to see you.

Anyway, I hate Bush. There, I've said it, I've got it out of the way. You know this going in. Why do I hate Bush? Well, there's the thing about the stolen election(s). And then the thing about running the country into the ground to get tax breaks for all his corporate bosses. And then the thing about lying us into war, in order to get really great no-bid contracts for all his corporate bosses. Oh, I could go on and on, and I will. But not now. Now's the time for hello.

Also, I'm rather leery of religion. I used to be a believer. I was a member of the churches of Christ, a loose organization of back-to-the-Bible folks that have managed to more or less agree with themselves what the Bible says. Now I am not. It has nothing to do with my being gay. That's just icing on the cake.

Oh, yeah. Gay. That's me. And single. And sorta looking, but not really, because I travel a lot right now, and I want a committed relationship, and that's not possible right now. So single and floating.


I might be moving soon, and I'll have weird times to post when on the road, but will be fairly frequent when at home. So enjoy me while you got me. That's what I say.