Month: July 2005

Cicero and clan will be making an excursion to the Atlantic provinces of Canada at the end of the month. We’ve been there a few times, and know the can’t miss stuff- Cap Breton, Anne of Green Gables stuff on PEI,...

Wingnut Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, whose only saving grace is his willingness to challenge Abu Gonzales and his ilk for torturing prisoners, has a column in today’s paper openly comparing an action of the Israeli...

I think instinctively we all know that no entity would willingly cut off its own food supply and so, while I don’t smoke, I’ve never felt at ease with the government making money off of the Tobacco Industry. Today I...

One of the right’s biggest weaknesses is the fear of sex. If you have the stomach to read right-wing literature, there are countless prohibitions against  sex before marriage and sex outside the marriage bed. A lot of...

Tocque Deville has shamed me into writing about the repeal of a 1935 utility regulation, called The Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA). But first, I’m going get all philosophical on your ass. “Iraq’s...