Facebooking

Posting is slow again as I've been undergoing some medical treatments that slow me down. But over the last couple days I've succumbe...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) (See the posts in chronological order ) On Oct 2, US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas w...

Help for researchers

I hadn't heard of Google's 'In Quotes' until I saw it mentioned in the AskSam newsletter. What an intriguing idea, and hope...

Newspaper by hand

Roy Greenslade points us to a new newspaper being published in London, on a very tiny basis: The Manual is an actual hand drawn, hand lette...

Politics today

Interesting stuff (updated, see last entries): From Christopher Buckley (son of William F.) in The Beast : Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting fo...

For those who care....

...about politics, anyway, an amazing effort by the staff of Esquire to put together a database of endorsements of every Congressional-and-...

Cheap shots, or real facts?

Here's a well- researched compilation at Random Pixels of various published reports on the details of John McCain's service record. ...