Thanks to an article in today's Gainesvile Sun, I drove by and took a picture of this sign:

 The sign is on this building:

 Here is the owner, G.F. Butch Ford, in his own words in the… Read full post »

Okay, this afternoon I was taking a nap and I thought I heard a strange noise from my cell phone. I picked it up and clicked on the line, only to hear a conversation get started.

Here is what I remember:… Read full post »

August 29, 1936.

That is the date of birth for John Sydney McCain III. To capture the flavor of that date, I found what was purported by an enterprising E-bay seller to be a copy of the cover of The Saturday Evening Post for that date:… Read full post »

C'mon, George. Pick one side of an issue and stay there. Remember back in July of 2003:

President Bush today came close to taunting Iraqis who were attacking American-led forces in Iraq and said the assaults would not cause the United States to leave prematurely.… Read full post »

We've now had two very disturbing shooting incidents in the last month that could create the appearance that hunting season on liberals has been declared. How are the targets being picked?

The first shooting was July 27, at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. Jim… Read full post »

The death of Dr. Bruce Ivins has led to disclosure by the FBI that he was their chief and only suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks. We now have had several days to pick apart the evidence against Ivins, and it is shaky at best. I will address three major… Read full post »

This has been a very difficult couple of weeks for many, as we have seen Barack Obama become a cynical politician and then prove that loud and clear with his capitulation on the FISA vote. When I was younger, I would retreat to the poetry of Thomas… Read full post »

The Fourth Amendment was rushed to Walter Reed Medical Center this afternoon, where it has been admitted and immediately rushed to the ICU.  It is rumored to be in a persistent vegetative state.

“The Fourth Amendment was the victim of a vicious, warrantless attack today.   It/… Read full post »

Tomorrow, the Senate will debate and almost certainly approve HR 6304, which has already passed the House and grants retroactive immunity to the telecomunications companies that helped the government to illegally spy on Americans through monitoring virtually every phone call and electronic communic… Read full post »

This picture just makes me want to write a thousand different captions:

 Here are a few:

"Laura, why did you say we'd go to "The Hague"? Where is that anyway?"

"Thanks for all the fish!"

"Th-th-th-that's all folks!"

"Why does this itinerary say we… Read full post »

Word comes to us this weekend that Charlie Crist is now engaged to be married.  Many are sceptical of this announcement, as it widely has been surmised that Crist is gay.  Working from that surmise, one can come to the conclusion that he was able to overcome the rumors… Read full post »

Two hundred and thirty two years ago, a courageous group of men drafted a fateful document, and after pledging “to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”, they signed the Declaration of Independence. In so doing, they launched our country into existence. Many of/… Read full post »

As Open Salon moves toward its launch out of beta, I would love to see features written by ondelette. A very important current topic is torture, and ondelette has quickly emerged as an articulate, knowledgeable and humane voice toiling away to point out the injustices perpetrated by our… Read full post »

Yesterday our community paid tribute to man who lived just a few miles away. He was a pillar in the community, but he also was a creative force in the development of music that is a uniquely American mix of rock and roll with rhythm and blues./… Read full post »

Perhaps lost in yesterday's hubbub over Obama's clinching of the nomination and the "secret" meeting between Obama and Clinton, was the release of a long-awaited report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on pre-war intelligence for the Iraq War. As the New York Times reports, the report makes/… Read full post »

The focus for much of the punditry regarding Barack Obama's clinching of the Democratic nomination on June 3 and Hillary Clinton's speech delivered that night has been on the fact that she did not concede on the spot. Much chatter has repeated her question, "What does Hillary want?",… Read full post »