Monthly Archives: December 2004

I think there are many more people out there like me. I am a life-long liberal/leftist who began to re-evaluate my political thought after 9/11. I don’t personally know anyone who would have even considered voting for George Bush. Well, … Continue reading →

I know it’s had a big run-up in the last week, but this is just the beginning. It hasn’t sunk in and become the conventional wisdom yet that Amazon has a lock on online retail. The same kind of thing … Continue reading →

Posted by Andy          WISHING YOU AND YOURS           THE MERRIEST OF SOLSTICES                 And may the Spirit                   of the First Amendment*                     Smile on you                       Throughout the New Year                                              Save the three-toed Patagonian warthog! FIGHT GLOBAL … Continue reading →

The great blue/red schism that has launched a thousand columns and blog posts, has spawned a pair of matching apparitions staring at each other in the mirror. On the red side of the looking glass we have the fearsome bogeyman … Continue reading →

My brother, Steve, turned me on to these great little books from Penguin. They are biographies, but short, 200 pages or so. I have finished Napoleon and Buddha, and have started on Winston Churchill. St. Augustine and Joseph Smith are … Continue reading →

Here are a couple of pictures taken in Nashville with my Sony DSC-P41 digital camera:     

I was talking to my son, Morgan, this evening, who is a second generation hippie leftist, and he made a salient point. America may not be the great satan, but we have the power to be, if we so choose. … Continue reading →

I’ve expanded the previous post into a longer essay, which has been featured, with minor editing, on frontpagemag.com. If Abraham Lincoln were president today, there’s a good chance that the doors would be shut at the New York Times and … Continue reading →