Break out the sandbags.

300 New York National Guard Activated, and here I am on Federal status, 2200 miles away.

-Pictures via The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

A Nation hanging by a thread…

“Our country’s unique because our dissidents have a voice,” said Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, a World War II veteran who lost an arm in the war and was decorated with the Medal of Honor.
“While I take offense at disrespect to the flag,” he said, “I nonetheless believe it is my continued duty as a veteran, [...]

Thanks!

I get so little access to the internet, but I’d like to thank all of you for stopping by even though I don’t get as much of a chance to stop and comment at your place!
Stories of interest:
Iraqi Government Embraces Democratic Proposals
by DarkSyde
Sun Jun 25, 2006 at 09:23:34 AM PDT

In a stinging rejection of Republican [...]

The gardens

-These, along with other pics of my travels, can be found here in my photos.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower.

2030 Tuesday

Could I wander forever? So many do. It was Bashō’s life. Can the exterior ever mirror the interior? Should it? I found a way to make it to Japan if I wanted to go and live there. Ask yourself that question. If you could just up, leave, and go live in Japan for a [...]

My new Home Away from Home

1730 Monday

This is my front stoop…

Cigarettes–out. Beers–out. Powers–out. It’s 103 degrees. Yeah fucking El Paso. I forgot how it gets so hot here that you can smell the water in the air when they water the grass over by the Officers quarters on the old post. I took a walk over there just the other [...]

Blogging from the PX?

1900 Sunday

I took my own advice and purchased a bigger notebook. So rare that I do–take my own advice that is. I’ve found a new place to gain internet access from…the PX, whole rows of display laptops to choose from. It’s fitting and adds to the surrealness of this whole endeavor.
As I noted to my [...]

Dispatch from El Paso

I am here, safe and sound. It was 80 something degrees this morning by 0800, about the same as the high back home in New York. The post Library hours suck, it looks like the only day I’ll be able to get in here is Saturday. In the mean time I brought some books to [...]

Marked, “Urgent.”

What do Kaavya Viswanathan, Ben Domenech and Ann Coulter have in common?
…No, only Coulter’s suspected of voter fraud in Florida,
This just in from the the desk at Agitprop:

What If Coulter’s Publisher Had To Pull The Book?

Imagine - what if we ineffective little bloggers could get Coulter’s book pulled? By now, you know that [...]

immersion therapy

I was digging through some old pictures, prepairing myself…
Fort Bliss.

Main Post with the Franklin Mountains in the Background.

El Capitan

Coming down McKelligon Canyon Road in my old Mustang.