I suppose you’re wondering about the change of address for the blog. I’m applying for jobs. My politics tend to tilt to one side, which may not be … efficacious to my intentions. So having a politically leaning blog with my full name in the URL seems ill-advised. Anyway, I’m glad you’re here. We’re just going to keep thrashing the shrubbery. Or titling into the wind, or something.

By the way, if you’ve missed the illumination of my new blog title, scroll all the way down to the footer.

For those newer to the jargon of the Web , URL stands for Universal Resource Locator – it’s the specific address of something on the internet.

BELTSVILLE, Md. – Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on America’s dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.

Two posts back, I wrote "What congress needs to do is grow a brain and a conscience, and override the veto." The funny is that I don't remember writing that. I need to get my overgrown brain to bed earlier.

When we mention routers these days, I guess we usually think of the kind made by Cisco/Linksys – the little valves in the tubes of the internets. But that’s not what I’m on about today. I refer to stone routers, used by artisans to inscribe text in the monuments of our cities of the living and cities of the dead. You see, they’re adding more names to the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington DC. Forty years later, and that memorial isn’t finished yet. There are over 58,000 names on the wall … and counting.

When do you suppose they’ll start designing and building the memorial for casualties of the Iraq and Afghan Wars of the Bush Administrations? Would anyone care to venture an estimate of the number of names?

Today, Tuesday 5/1/07, is the 4th anniversary of George Bush’s infamous Mission Accomplished speech, on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier of the US Navy. Today, a 124 Billion dollar funding bill will be put before the president, for his veto. And he will veto it, because in his mind the war is justified and must go on.

And now …

A top US congressional Democrat has raised the possibility of George W. Bush’s impeachment in a bid to force the president to accept a compromise that would place conditions on continued US military involvement in Iraq.Representative John Murtha, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Defense and is close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made the comment Sunday in response to repeated threats by the president to veto legislation that calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of next March.

That’s nice, but essentially passive-agressive. Like a massive dog, barking and snarling, then running up to put his forepaws on his shoulders, licking your face and pissing on your leg. What congress needs to do is grow a brain and a conscience, and override the veto.