This Man Makes Me Proud To Be Texan
There are many people in the public eye that leave me embarrassed of my home state...Bill Moyers is not one of them.
Author: Gary Boyd
Just When You Write It Off…
Spring decides to pay another short visit. We had another "cold" front slide through yesterday. I think it would be more accurate to call it a dry front. Sunday morning we watched the humidity drop from 90% down into the 20% range before wandering back up into the 40% area…
Scamming the Budgetary Process
Why do we keep seeing this? When the Republican Presidential Candidate see us in Iraq for 100 years (it really doesn't matter what the role is), how can the budget for these operations still be an emergency appropriation? Not an Emergency - washingtonpost.com FIVE YEARS into paying for two wars,…
Closing Down a Blog
Today I imported all of the posts and comments from my old political rant site "Blues From The Red Side Of Life" into this blog and shut down the old Blogger site. It seemed the thing to do since I haven't posted over there in about a year and I…
The Music I Grew Up With
Heading south on I45, middle of the night, looking to catch the sun rising on Galveston Island. This is the sound that blasted out of the 8-track in the VW Bus we used to haul ourselves and our boards south that summer almost 40 years ago...three or four buddies with…
Friday Political Muse
This could explain the Republican love affair with GW Bush... Michael Gerson - Sticking Points for Obama - washingtonpost.com A president is expected to be a patriotic symbol himself, not the arbiter of patriotic symbols. He is supposed to be the face-painted superfan at every home game; to wear red,…
The birth of a Blog
Two years ago today I started North Carolina Mountain Dreams, my first blog. That first post was entitled "Inventing the Myth as I Go". It seems that not much has changed in two years. I am still dreaming about the mountains, still creating the myth of my life as I…
It looks like summer musing time is here…
Crank up the AC: 90-degree days return to Houston this week | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle Summer's coming, and right on schedule, too. Forecasters say Houston's mercury should top 90 degrees Thursday or Friday. During the past decade, the year's first 90-degree day came anywhere from April 17 to May…
Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts
Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts | PBS
May 2, 2008
BILL MOYERS:Welcome to the Journal.
I once asked a reporter back from Vietnam, "Who's telling the truth over there?" Everyone he said. Everyone sees what's happening through the lens of their own experience." That's how people see Jeremiah Wright. In my conversation with him on this broadcast a week ago and in his dramatic public appearances since, he revealed himself to be far more complex than the sound bites that propelled him onto the public stage. Over 2000 of you have written me about him, and your opinions vary widely. Some sting: "Jeremiah Wright is nothing more than a race-hustling, American hating radical," one viewer wrote. A "nut case," said another. Others were far more were sympathetic to him.
Mmmmmm…muses
Interesting little legal quandary... McCain's Birth Abroad Stirs Legal Debate - washingtonpost.com The Senate has unanimously declared John McCain a natural-born citizen, eligible to be president of the United States. That is the good news for the presumptive Republican nominee, who was born nearly 72 years ago in a military…
Pesticides In Your Food?
Check the Guide... Environmental Working Group || foodnews.org Be A Smarter Produce Picker — Get Our Free Guide! EWG always recommends buying organic, but we know you can't always find it. Our new Guide — now in its 5th edition — features the 12 fruits and veggies with the most…
Mid-Week, Mid-Morning, Mid-Life Muse
I took myself and a glass of Zin out into the backyard to watch the evening light show...The fireflies were a bit subdued, but a pleasure to watch and wander once again through memories of the evenings when I was growing up and "lightning bugs" were everywhere.
Monday Morning Muse
The weekend weather was trying...Thunder boomers rolling through on Friday night. Rain off and on all day on Saturday as we were chained to the house waiting for a furniture delivery. More rain and thunder on Sunday before the front finally pushed through. This morning we had temperature more in…
Playing with some photos…
Playing around in photoshop on some of the images I shot last fall on our vacation in the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is a shot of Fred First's barn on Goose Creek out of Floyd. Consider this just an experiment in progress... Later...
Photo Friday: Electricity
This week's Challenge: 'Electricity'. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your website's main page. Read this for more info. Reminder: Submit only one link per challenge! When you…
Pre-Weekend Musing…
We appear to have fallen off of the weather pattern we have enjoyed for the past month or so. It was nice while it lasted...Cold front on Thursday-Friday to blow out the stale air, cool it down just a bit and dry it out to a comfort level not usually…
The Road Goes On Forever…
And the party never ends... Robert Earl Keen is a hell of a story spinner and a pretty good songwriter. Sherry was a waitress at the only joint in town She had a reputation as a girl who'd been around Down Main Street after midnight with a brand new pack…
WordPress Upgrade…
Well I finally took the plunge and upgraded my WordPress to the latest version. If you should happen to hit any glitches, please...please let me know... It looks like I'll be spending a little time figuring out what's happening.
A Victory in Pa?
'The tide is turning,' victorious Clinton says | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle "Because of you, the tide is turning." I suppose the question is...Exactly how many Republican voters does it take to turn a Democratic Primary tide? ++++++++++ Whatever » 10 Delegates? Really? After all that, Hillary Clinton nets just…
Earth Day 2008 – The Countdown Is On…
Happy Earth Day...Twenty-eight years ago on Earth Day I, I could have been anywhere...I really do not recall what that sophomore in high school was doing. Especially since those days were lived down wind from one of the largest petrochemical complexes in the world. I grew up just a couple…
The end of spring?
The last couple of weeks have been really nice. Cool nights days in the mid 70's at the highest. Today though it looks like summer is coming on. The temperature this morning at 6am is 73° with a high forcast for the mid 80's. Now I know for a lot…
Is it just me?
Watching the Democratic Debate the other night left me with the strong suspicion that it isn't just Washington and politicians living in a bubble...It appears the mainstream media is living right in there with them. I mean, it can't be just me, can it? Who the hell really thinks that…
Tuesday in Spring…
The small number of posts this week can be blamed on the beautiful spring weather we have been experiencing. I have been spending most of my free time out in the yard enjoying the cool and the low humidity...Sadly it wont last long. Lows have been in the 40's and…
Saturday Morning Muse
Occasionally a blog entry will touch a spot in me that makes me do something...Cate's "ramble" today was one... Beyond the Fields We Know: Looking for... Some places arrange themselves perfectly in eye and viewfinder, and yet they do not speak or sing. Others, often on cold, dank and foggy…
Quick Quotes From The Left…
Eugene Robinson - The Surge Turns Into the Stall - washingtonpost.com Of course, Bush long ago lost any credibility with Congress and the American people on Iraq. It's understandable that he hides behind Petraeus's breastplate of medals and Crocker's thatch of gray hair, sending these loyal and able public servants…
End of the Week Musing
“The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.” Wendell Berry, Farmer, Essayist, Conservationist, Novelist, Teacher,…
Wednesday Morning Muse
Current Weather (on Wed 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport) Partly Cloudy Temp: 72° Dewpoint: 66° Wind: SE 6 MPH What isn't shown in that snipit from my email is the humidity. Right now it is 94% and rising...Just think, we call this spring around these parts. You should see…
Nothing Good To Say…
Corporate Croesus - New York Times It’s hard to square the conceit that chief executives are rewarded for improving companies’ performance with the fact that chiefs at 10 financial-services firms in the study made $320 million last year, even as their banks reported mortgage-related losses of $55 billion. Meanwhile, the…
Sobering Thoughts for a Monday Morning Muse
Paul Krugman's latest column focuses on food. Wander on over and check out his thoughts... Grains Gone Wild - New York Times These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there’s another world crisis under way — and it’s hurting a lot more people. I’m talking…
Weekend Musing
The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are as skeptical as I am about most of modern medicine's miracle drugs, you might not want to read this book review. It will just reinforce what you already assume is the truth... Big Pharma's Golden Eggs - washingtonpost.com…
