VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

Tips and tricks for those moments when your body is bugging you.

Sinus Congestion? - Relieve sinus pressure by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger. You may look like Felix Unger, but the motion loosens congestion by making the vomer bone rock back and [...]

Roy Walter N. Jr

Nov 5, 1935 - Dec 28, 2003
Miss you, Daddy.
Mourning is not forgetting.
It is an undoing.
Every minute tie has to be untied
and something permanent and valuable
recovered and assimilated from the dust.
- Margery Allingham

I’m back. In case anyone might have noticed, this may have been the longest time I’ve gone without blogging in months.
We went to a family gathering in Florida in honor of my grandmother Evelyn’s 89th birthday. In addition to my little family, my mom and uncle, and my two brothers and their families were [...]

For the record - and I will remember this - these are the only Senators who stood up for my civil liberties by voting against the renewal of the USA Patriot Act.
I thank you:

Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Ron Wyden (D-OR) [...]