mushin no shin

I haven’t blogged much about the goings on in government lately, so we’ll do a quick catch-up / rundown of a few things.

Senator Burris — I don’t really have a problem with this. Sure, the process was tainted, but maybe in a way that benefits us. With Blago being in the situation he’s in, the [...]

Well, it’s just you and me. I’m sittin’ here with a bum leg, nursing it with a bit of the cran-grape and vodka, ought to go to sleep but can’t, and here we are.
I guess there’s nothing here but the static. And perhaps the flicker of passing signals from other lands our antenna catches [...]

Well it seems that Mr. Crafton’s xenophobic crusade has led our humble neighborhood to get a plug of sorts in the New York Times. Via the 16th District listserv we read:

On a recent weekend, volunteers for a coalition called Nashville for All of Us, which opposes the proposal, knocked on doors and distributed campaign literature [...]

I know I give Ron Paul a lot of shit over his backwards approach to social issues — his homophobia, his desire to have the government enforce a Christian interpretation of personhood, and his willingness to coddle and associate with outright racists, whether he be a racist himself or not — but make no mistake, [...]

Mike tagged me for the seven deadly sins random things meme. Right-o, lets see what we come up with.

I’ve been known to sometimes (and by sometimes, I mean often) go *weeks* without really talking to anyone, beyond the unavoidable “transactional” speech needed sometimes with a cashier, etc. Weirder, this generally doesn’t bother me, except when [...]

After stumbling to the computer this morning, as coffee medicated a mild hangover from a kickass shindig the agonyzer hosted with his partners in crime to celebrate their success in a damn fine production of A Christmas Carol — my firefox went batshit and commandeered my morning.
Long story short, over the course of maybe a [...]