If you’re wondering why I haven’t blogged on the current violence in the Middle East, it’s because my opinion is not as well-informed as it could be. I don’t feel qualified to stand forth with an analysis. I don’t trust much of what I’m hearing in the news, especially knowing that there is a lot of history there. What we are getting is a snapshot viewpoint here and there. My overall feeling so far is that there is plenty of…
I’ve added a new page – “About VirusHead.” There is a short explanation of why the blog is named VirusHead. There is also a long rambling section about theoryheads and postmodernism (only for the intensely curious). I’ve also added a page dedicated to Jehovah’s Witnesses issues, news and resources. In addition to page links (to bits of the main VirusHead site), the page lists all the titles of the blog posts on this topic, so that you don’t have to…
Yesterday I posted about Tina Trent‘s local efforts to canvass different Democratic candidates running for office at the Georgia state level. The candidates’ answers are posted on her blog. However, I didn’t post the questions. These questions are pretty good ones, and could be used as a basic template to write your own, so here you go. Remember, candidates for office are people who are applying to work for you. Find out what they stand for and what they intend…
My friend and colleague Tina Trent has canvassed Democratic candidates running for state office. Feel free her use her questions as a template for your own questioning. Click to see their responses. Dear Neighbors in Georgia House Districts 58 and 59 and Senate District 36, On July 6, I polled all Democratic candidates in these races. I did this because it has been a long time since some of these seats have been contested and also because many new voters…
Republican Pete Hoekstra, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has criticized Bush for hiding more surveillance programs from Congressional oversight. The NY Times has published his criticism of Bush on this matter. On Fox News Sunday, Hoekstra said that a whistleblower came to him with several more spying operations that were in danger of being abused without oversight. Wait… several more?? Hoekstra: …this is actually a case where the whistleblower process was working appropriately. Some people within the intelligence community…
I guess they don’t count my own pledge. They didn’t have this widget for bloggers then. I still haven’t seen the movie. Still working on the babysitting situation… I’ve added it to my sidebar for a bit. It’s strange that the javascript will work in the sidebar but not in a post.