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

I’ve been missing in action, I know. I’ll write all about the following when I get more than a couple of minutes.

Quick trip to the Alabama shore for J’s family reunion
Visit from my cousin A
Halloween/Samhain festivities
Making some calls to remind progressive voters in swing races to vote (Moveon.org)
Catching up on the hundreds of backlogged emails
Preparing [...]

Yesterday I wrote a very long and detailed post on the Plame leak situation. It had quotations and it had links. It had the whole history, the timeline, and it had several compelling points. Just as I was about to publish it, a site in another window crashed my browser. Bummer. I have really got [...]

I’ve been having an extended discussion/argument with a Canadian Jehovah’s Witness in the comments of an old post. Feel free to read the whole thing if you can bear it. Yes. It’s long. I know. There were some resources in my latest reply that I thought might help others - so here’s a piece:
Most of [...]

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) [...]