Tax Freedom Day - I read your "Tax Freedom Day" email. Do you have 2 minutes for this? How about $1,654,016.58 dollars? The "Tax Watchdog Group" you mentioned is a conservative lobby organization with an obvious agenda. I can tell you more if you're... ( | 2 Comments)
Give 'em What They Want - Living in Eden has its advantages. As a marginalized member of a spectator democracy, you choose your own dependencies. Lust. Hate. Blood. Love. Don’t think of it as manufactured consent. Think of it as the candy everybody wants. -- from... ( | 1 Comments)
Street Rod Triptych - The family and I joined our friend David at the 2004 Street Rod Nationals (the world's biggest show of pre-1949 street rods.) I had fun, but wish I could have discovered the rhyme or reason for the placement of the... ( )
The Science of Word Recognition - "Given that all the reading research psychologists I know support some version of the parallel letter recognition model of reading, how is it that all the typographers I know say that we read by matching whole word shapes? It appears... ( )
He's dead, bitch - From CNN: "Singer Rick James, a musical icon of the 1980s who helped define the "punk funk" style of that decade, was found dead in his home Friday morning by his caretaker, a Los Angeles police Department spokesman said. He... ( )
Officially Sanctioned Prejudice - From an ESPN dispatch on the trade of Esteban Loaiza from the White Sox to the Yankees: "Loaiza arrived in New York on a rainy Sunday morning, carrying a White Sox bag and sporting the goatee he had for his... ( | 2 Comments)
This is how a meme works... - This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space... ( )
Welcome. All web sites are temples to their creators. Temple of Me will reflect what interests me, Domoni. I am a husband, father (twice), American, and liberal. I live in a "Red state" in the South. I am nearsighted, ambidextrous and over 30. Actually, I'm 153.33% of thirty.