Life
God help me, but I have a recipe that calls for Velveeta. So I went down to the Deadhead Fred to buy that and a few other Christmas-related items. I spent almost 10 minutes looking for the Velveeta. I finally had to ask a store clerk to point me
Life
I went over to a friend's house on Mount Tabor today to look in on her cat. While I was walking home, I saw a holly tree! Nothing puts me in the Christmas mood quite like that. Well, aside from drinking eggnog by a fire. Which I might
Sports
So I'm watching the Fort Worth Bowl, which this year matches my former employer, the University of Houston (Go Coogs!), against the University of Kansas. ESPN has sent their D team to provide commentary — before tonight, I had never heard of either person in the broadcast booth. Midway
Life
I had lunch with a friend today at Pho Hung, a Vietnamese restaurant on Powell. He recommended the avocado milkshake. After he assured me that he was serious, I went ahead and ordered it. It was good . I expected it to taste like liquid guacamole, but it actually tasted like
Politics
Katherine at Obsidian Wings sums it up: Look. We have a President here who is making a claim of unlimited power, for the duration of a war that may never end. Oh, he says it's limited by the country's laws, but they've got a
Music
These are great! God bless the British and their cheesy, cheesy taste. (My favorite band in the 80s? These wallies.)
Life
Today was supposed to be a snow day — icy roads, slippery sidewalks, stay inside unless your life depends on it — so I was pleasantly surprised when I woke up and found I could go out. The weather was actually quite nice. I trudged carefully through the slush to the East
Life
The first snow of the year has arrived. The outdoors is like a fluffy white plush carpet with an invisible ice water spill in it: It looks so inviting to walk on until you're actually walking on it. But it's nice to sit in a warm
Politics
One other note about the President's speech today. The President said: The review includes approval by our nation's top legal officials, including the Attorney General and the Counsel to the President. Does anyone doubt by now that if the Attorney General and the Counsel to the
History
In 1970, President Nixon secretly ordered the Air Force to bomb North Vietnamese supply lines running through Cambodian territory. When news of the bombing was published in the American press, the Nixon administration accused the press of harming national security by publishing secret information. But to whom was the bombing
History
The distortion of Soviet intelligence analysis derived, at root, from the nature of the one-party state and its inherent distrust of all opposing views. The Soviet Union thus found it more difficult than its Western rivals to understand, and therefore to use, the political intelligence it collected. Though the
History
The State and Revolution The Sword and the Shield