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President Obama, being pretty damn presidential

I doubt that the Oklahoman or Fox News will cover President Obama's historic address in Cairo as will the rest of the world's media, but that's their free choice to be left behind on the forgotten dustheaps of history.

Another Great Day for Geekdom

Lost in the hoopla of Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the Supreme Court this morning was that she also grew up watching Perry Mason. Erle Stanley Gardner, at one time the best selling novelist in the United States, was actually a champion of the underdog in his legal practice, devoting his life to working for the underprivileged and exploited. If the Republicans could draw a line connecting his real-life legal practice to Sotomayor's probable stance on the bench, they'd have a real hissy fit.

In real life, by the way, Gardner did marry his "Della Street."

Is Fox News Anti-American?

As Conan O'Brian's insult dog might say, poup on you. Wait 'til Fox gets pelted with the fact that Grey Poupon is owned by Kraft Foods, which employs more than 98,000 Americans. Of course, when did Fox News ever let a silly little thing like facts get in the way of an attack on liberals?

What next? Will the right wing be monitoring his calorie intake?

If you at all like Grey Poupon, you'd best stock up quick; it's likely to fly off the shelves, if Americans' fascination with all things Obama is any indication.

Ready to boldly go...

April 23 is World Book Day

San Francisco April 18, 1906 5:12 am "The Damndest Finest Ruins..."

Barbara Parker 1946 - 2009

Earth Hour 2009

Guess who's cleaning up the mess the Republicans have left behind

The Truth About Rockstar energy drink: it was created in part by racist & homophobic Michael Savage

Rush Limbaugh hopes that the Commander-in-Chief fails ...during a time of war

Good thing for Rush that Gitmo is closing down, eh? Could he working for North Korea?

Executive Order 9066, Feb. 19, 1942

Earth Hour 2009 on March 28

Speaking of coincidences...

I'm not the first to notice that Dick Cheney looked a lot like Mr. Potter from "It''s a Wonderful Life"

Yet why on Earth should the Republican party think that Americans would want the very people to dictate Obama's plan to save the economy when they're the very people who sent the markets of virtually every country on Earth into a tailspin?

Heaven is a double ristretto

How many times will we say, "never again?"

1619 to 1865 - African slaves brought to North America.

1851 to Present - Native Americans placed on reservations.

1942 to 1945 - Over 120,0000 Japanese-Americans rounded up and placed in camps.

2001 to 2009 - Guantanamo Bay Naval Base opens detention facitility.

What gets me is how easily this happy girl could be in my own family. Or yours. Note that nowhere in the photograph do you see the barbed wire or the guard towers, or the soldiers with guns, ready to shoot on site. Yet they were there; Ansel Adams went to great lengths to let you know all was not as carefree as it appeared.

Photos are from Manzanar, California, by Ansel Adams

Key West Literary Seminar 2009