Author: glitterscale

Richard Dreyfuss = Ruminating

Citizen Dreyfuss In this article Dreyfuss thinks that TV is our ruination because the images short circuit our ability to ruminate about events.  I think he may have a good point.  I think that I like the blogs because...

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Ethics – a renewed sense of hope

WaPo has an article about how the dems in the house intend to tackle ethics.  They intend to include the new freshmen entering (some of whom ran on ethics issues) and they seem to want to actually have debates on the issues...

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From the Guardian

Today there were a bunch if fascinating articles in the Guardian: Guardian Home page I wandered there following a diary on the article about how diet might affect violence.  The theory goes that omega 3 is better than omega...

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Velvet Mafia

There were a couple of stories at the orange place touting an LA article linking Ken Mehlman to Abramoff and citing some emails linking rewards to firing some poor smuck over those commonwealth islands sex and sweat shops....

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Want Cheese with Your Whine??

Frank Luntz complains in Time that the repubs today are not the repubs of yesteryear. Foley: The Final Straw But they were the predecessors of this years crop.  They moralized then and Gingrich was their leader.  His...

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