Category Archives: Politics
Update and Brief Message to Bill Brady’s Campaign
Here’s my note on this from yesterday. Hilarity Update: The Powers that Be have locked down the article to new and unregistered users to prevent further edit warring. And the original article stands alone. Yesterday, at about 5:15PM, I reverted … Continue reading
Wikipedia Loves Bill Brady!
Update alert! After hearing the umpteenth commercial about gubnatorial candidate Bill Brady’s mission to impoverish, degrade and/or kill every woman in Illinois, I decided to find out who this maniacal genius was. The results were amazing. It turns out, Wikipedia … Continue reading
BurstNET panics, 70,000 bloggers lose their presence
According to several recent articles, that’s how the story goes. “Official” details state the following chain of events. * The FBI discovered terrorist material, including covert communications with key Al Qaeda operatives and a US-citizen hit list, on a website … Continue reading
Vegetables, Mom, not fruit(-like items)
Another round of research on fructose came out today, and, hopefully, it will strike one of the final nails into the coffin. Since we figured out that “corn syrup” and “high fructose corn syrup” are wickedly inexpensive sweeteners, we’ve put them in everything from white bread to grilled chicken breast to ketchup. Continue reading
Local: District 158 less than honest (surprise!)
A long time ago, when I wrote on a different blog, I talked a little bit about Larry Snow. I don’t remember much about Larry Snow anymore, since he’s not extraordinarily relevant, but I do know that his name represented something insidious about District 158. Mostly, that it always seems to be BSing everyone in McCo. Continue reading
CALM Act
Another gem made its way out of Congress today. The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act. The CALM Act (H.R. 1084) makes the “Recommended Practice: Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television” from the ATSC a mandatory practice. Continue reading
Bill of Rights and Limitations
Last week, the attorney who represented several Guantanamo detainees, Marc Falkoff, was scheduled to speak at McHenry County College. The talk was planned to center around the circumstances of many detainees’ arrests, their innocence/guilt, their treatment and a collection of poetry written during their often extended stays (Poems from Guantanamo – The Detainees Speak). That last part sounds a bit too hands-held-round-a-warm-fire-Kumbaya for me, but he’s entitled to freedom of the press just as much as the next guy. Continue reading
Unbelievable: Child Taken after Mother Refuses to Feed Junk
This unbelievable news story broke yesterday. Like many toddlers, Zak Hessey was a fussy eater who refused his mother’s healthy home cooking. Concerned about his falling weight, his parents sought the advice of doctors. That simple act triggered a shocking … Continue reading
Wake up America! or The Evils of Islam
This was passed on to me by my mother for some fact checking. We wondered, how much is true? how much is current practice? how much is “on the books” but not applicable to modern Islamic life? how reflective of this of reality? Continue reading
REAL ID’s little brother: PASS ID
When the REAL ID Act was pushed through several years ago as an addition to a security bill, people were rightly outraged. Many states have declined to comply, while others have outright refused to participate. The Federal government attempted to … Continue reading