The Book of the Shadows

Once again there is a fraying of nerves and tensions in the Middle East. Once again Iraq seems to be the center of that mess. And once again we have a number of people pushing the United States to once again go to war. You can probably guess what I think.

"Perhaps we just shouldn't be killing people". A guest on a news program said that. Are they right?

Irrational fear and hatred is usually dangerous. That is what has beset the IRS, and the dangers are not being fully appreciated. It's a little lengthy, but you should read this article from Forbes and MSN .

Were any of you in the States up early/late enough to catch any of the total Lunar eclipse last night?

A new kind of infrastructure project - Should the government step up and get to work on the information super-highway?

The Cold War never ended, it just took a different form.

The State of the Union is a Constitutional mandated report card the Executive Branch must deliver to the Legislative Branch once every year. It is an update of what accomplishments and failures the nations has had, where the nation needs to go, what it needs to focus on. Often times it is also a “to do” list from the Executive Branch for legislation it wants the Congress to complete in the next year and lays out not just the president’s agenda, but a roadmap of potential compromise and contention.

I had no plans for doing anything like a top ten list or top whatever list of the best whatever of the year. But when I saw this news story, I just had to do at least this much.