April 19, 2008
Teaching the American Way
Two different stories from the front page of today's Washington Post caught my eye for their common theme, Americans teaching others how to do things our way, as commandos, or a cheerleaders. Personally, I can imagine a combo which takes...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
March 28, 2008
Fat & Crazy
I'm soooo doomed. Yesterday's Washington Post reported that men in their 40s who carry their extra weight on their abdomen are more prone to suffer dementia in their later years. Apparently, fat is nastier when it surrounds your other organs...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
August 31, 2007
Monitoring the World, by Cartoons
From today's Washington Post (Lawmakers Describe 'Being Slimed in the Green Zone'), describing a meeting between three members of Congress (Ellen Tauscher: D-CA, Jim Moran: D-VA, and Jon Porter: R-NV) with Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq's National Security Advisor... At one point,...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
August 30, 2007
Homemade Headline
Spotted today at New York and 14th on my way to the bus stop heading home from work. What else can you say?...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
August 20, 2007
Beer and Bears Don't Mix!
Bears eat man at beer festival CNN.com, 8/20/07...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
June 26, 2007
Dick Cheney is Evil
Scary Evil. He exemplifies reckless disregard for the Constitution, and of any person or law's ability to exercise any amount of oversight of his activities. Remarkably, he recently claimed that the Vice President's Office is not an "entity within the...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
June 12, 2007
Hope for Justice in America
A piece of historical trivia, and two headlines from out of the courtrooms have caught my eye today and restored, by just a little bit, some hope that America remains a place where reason can prevail and the Constitution matters....Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
May 9, 2007
The Cheney Surge
This morning's news is that VP 'Big' Dick Cheney has made a surprise visit to Baghdad. You'll know things are going better in Iraq when a visit by the President, VP or cabinet secretary there is no longer described as...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84.
R.I.P. Mr. Vonnegut. Thanks for the great reads. (Via Think Progress.) Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84.: "‘Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ ‘Cat’s Cradle’ and ‘God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater’ caught...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
January 16, 2007
Obama to Explore
Barack Obama has announced that he has formed a Presidential Exploratory Committee and will make a final decision on whether or not to run on February 10th. The presence of his Google Ads here on the Casey Blog bodes well...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
January 14, 2007
An Old Post
We get one every day, churn through it, and then add it to the recycling pile. But yesterday, while poking around an antique mall, I found an old copy of the Washington Post that just felt worth buying. On...
November 9, 2006
The perfect finish...
... of a wonderful Election. Virginia win gives Democrats the Senate AP, 11/9/06...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
November 8, 2006
Republicans Blame Election Losses On Democrats
The Onion - America's Finest News Source WASHINGTON, DC—Republican officials are blaming tonight's GOP losses on Democrats, who they claim have engaged in a wide variety of "aggressive, premeditated, anti-Republican campaigns" over the past six-to-18 months. "We have evidence of...
October 5, 2006
The Way of the Whigs
An Iraq war that has cost us nearly half trillion dollars—and the good will of the world—might not have done it. Runaway federal spending that allowed the national debt to reach $8.5 trillion might not have done it. George Bush’s...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
September 24, 2006
Duh!
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Hurting U.S. Terror Fight The Washington Post, 9/24/06...Link | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
July 22, 2006
An Answer
Justice on a Short Leash Why did the president cut off investigation of the NSA's domestic surveillance program? The Washington Post, 7/22/06 Because he thinks he's above the Constitution, that's why. UPDATE: Like I said... If the president has constitutional...Link | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
June 1, 2006
Worst President Ever
America comes to this realization too late to spare us this second term we're currently suffering through. But perhaps in time to strike some balance by taking away Bush's lapdog Republican Congress... we have to remain hopeful. Failing that,...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
February 12, 2006
NY Times Op-Ed
"We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers — and just trust...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
January 31, 2006
Today's Toles
Today's editorial cartoon by Tom Toles of the Washington Post is particularly poignant....Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
December 21, 2005
Destroy the County to Defend It
Last Friday the New York Times broke the story that the Bush Administration has been eavesdropping on Americans without a warrant since shortly after 9/11/2001. The Times had delayed reporting the story for a year, at the request of the...Link | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
December 18, 2005
Our Sleeping Watchmen
My Congressman, at least willing to state the obvious... In an interview last week, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said "it's a fair comment" that the GOP-controlled Congress has done insufficient oversight...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
December 16, 2005
Headlines to make you proud to be an American
Ironic Title! from today's Washington Post... Bush Authorized Domestic Spying President Relents, Backs Torture Ban UPDATE: A mid-day headline offers a ray of hope... Senate Deals Setback to Bush on Patriot Act...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
December 3, 2005
That would be a big, YES!
The most impressive thing really is how quickly and firmly he has established his hold on this position. It would have been the case already with a single term, but it's a distinction he'll hold for the ages after two....Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
November 27, 2005
Blogging the Post
The Washington Post has a very cool feature on their news stories that I've been meaning to write about. Many of their articles include a sidebar block like the one shown here titled 'Who's Blogging?'. Using the blog search engine...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Torture, American-Style
Here's a very interesting read from today's Washington Post that gets past the surface level of the debate about Torture and whether it's something that the United States does or doesn't do. The article describes the underlying laws and conventions...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
October 27, 2005
Fitzgerald Stakeout
Heading home from work, and stopped at a light on 14th Street, I noticed this press stakeout on the sidewalk and snapped a couple of photos with my Treo. This is a composite of those two photos, and my...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
October 25, 2005
Welcome...
you're late, too late. But still, glad you're catching on America. Poll: Bush would lose an election if held this year CNN.com, 10/25/05 Majority of Americans now feel Iraq war was wrong: poll AFP, 10/25/05 ah, and one more... Poll:...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
October 2, 2005
Does America Care...
...that the President's most senior advisors are responsible for blowing the cover of a CIA agent? "As the CIA leak investigation heads toward its expected conclusion this month, it has become increasingly clear that two of the most powerful men...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
September 25, 2005
Holy Ignorance
This morning's Washington Post has an article titled "In Evolution Debate, Creationists Are Breaking New Ground" about a new $25 million 'Creation Museum' that is being built near Cincinnati to promote the view of biblical creation of the Earth vs....Link | Comments (10) | TrackBack (0)
September 11, 2005
Remembering 9/11
On this, the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against our country, it's impossible for me not to reflect on it as the greatest of Bush's many failures as President of the United States. It's been four years,...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (2)
September 2, 2005
$3.01
I remember when I was in the 8th grade, and for the first time gas prices climbed above $1 a gallon. A friend pondered the fact that for the first time, the rolling numbers for 'amount' would be moving...Link | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
August 11, 2005
C'mon Irene
UPDATE: The Friday afternoon update shows Irene strengthening, but turning. My blog-hurricane prevention spell is working!! --- Early Saturday morning we're scheduled to set out for a week-long vacation in a beautiful beach house on the Outer Banks of North...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
July 5, 2005
Not *that* W!
The Washington Post today had an article saying that some baseball fans of Washington's new team, The Nationals, are choosing the alternate 'DC' logo hat rather than the standard 'W' logo version to avoid wearing the nickname of America's worst...
June 17, 2005
Virginia Race is On
Today's Washington Post included an editorial titled "In Virginia, the Race Is On", describing the need for serious debate between Gubernatorial candidates Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore on fiscal and transportation issues. Of the Republican ticket, the Post...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
June 8, 2005
The Downing Street Memo
As Washington got swept up in the memories of Watergate and the recent revalation that 'Mark Felt, then the number two man at the FBI, was the informant known as Deep Throat' who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
May 9, 2005
Christopher is Dropping
The Social Security Administration has released their annual listing of most popular baby names for 2004, and my own name, Christopher, remains among the top ten but has dropped from #9 to the last spot. In 1965, the year I...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
May 3, 2005
When Free Speech Can Mean Your Job
When can exercising your right to voice your political views cost you your job? It depends what state you live in. This startling article reveals how tentative some of our most basic 'rights' as Americans really are. Well worth a...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
April 3, 2005
The Stink of Tom Delay
"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today." House Majority Leader Tom Delay, 3/31/05 Rep. Tom Delay seems to be in a heap of long overdue trouble. His abuses of...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
March 31, 2005
And I'm 'Almost' Old!
So, as the previous post points out, I live in the state whose population is growing fatter faster than the other forty-nine. And now, the Supreme Court has made it official that I'm just months shy of turning 'old'. "In...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
March 30, 2005
Doing My Part
Go Virginia! We're #1! And I'm doing my part... Virginians Growing Obese at Fastest Rate Associated Press, 3/30/05...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
February 21, 2005
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Very sad news tonight. Hunter S. Thompson was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 67 years old. I am a huge fan of Thompson's work. I can remember my first introduction to it, when my brother...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
February 17, 2005
Editing Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson saw them coming, the editors who would follow. And he and the other founders recognized that changing times would require the ability to modify the framework of our government (see: Article V). In 1786 the Virginia General Assembly...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
February 10, 2005
News of Zero Interest
Prince Charles to marry Camilla! (What? They still have Princes?) Pope John Paul is Sick! (He's just a man, an old one.) Brad and Jen have split! (And this matters to anyone how?) BFD! It's amazing to me, our need...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
February 9, 2005
One Guess... Who's Next?
"You look around the world at potential trouble spots, Iran is right at the top of the list." Vice President Dick Cheney on MSNBC January 20, 2005 "Well, I'm quite clear and I believe that everybody is telling the Iranians...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The 'Pull Up Your Pants' Bill
More fun from Virginia's House of Delegates this session. Today they approved by a 60-34 vote H.B. 1981 which "Provides that any person who exposes his below-waist undergarments in a lewd or indecent manner shall be assessed a $50 civil...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
February 5, 2005
Virginia is for "Traditional" Lovers
Virginia is for Lovers, that's the long standing tourism pitch here in my home state. It's a pitch that's been in use for 36 years, so it's certainly demonstrated some shelf life. Don't mess with Texas, but come screw in...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
January 25, 2005
On Being Gay in Peoria
It's gotta be tough... Straight talk about being Gay Peoria Journal Star, 1/25/05 thanks to Hotline's Wakeup Call, a worthy daily read....Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
January 20, 2005
Inauguration Day
Four years ago, as George Bush completed his judicial coup at his first inaugural, I was fortunate enough to be out of the country. This time around I am not so lucky, but will instead work from home to avoid...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
January 16, 2005
Bumper Stickers, Magnet Ribbons & Rubber Bracelets
I haven't taken my Kerry/Edwards sticker off my bumper yet. I don't know why. Maybe my period of mourning hasn't passed yet. Or maybe I want to cling to it as my own "I told you so" for when Bush's...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
January 14, 2005
And Whoops!
OK, so there were no WMDs, AND we've turned Iraq into a breeding ground for terrorists according to the National Intelligence Council. Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground; War Created Haven, CIA Advisers Report The Washington Post, 1/14/05 Well done Mr....Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
January 12, 2005
Umm... Nevermind.
About those Weapons of Mass Destructions (or WMD as we've all become familiar enough to call them now)... Not there. We've given up looking. Search for Banned Arms In Iraq Ended Last Month The Washington Post, 1/12/05 US gives up...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
December 29, 2004
End the Year by Helping People in Need
Last year, as the last hours of 2003 ticked away, I was moved to make a financial contribution to a political candidate. It seemed very important at the time, and it was. usemap="#T3MYIILZNTKFV2" border="0" alt="Amazon Honor System" align="right" hspace="5">...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
December 26, 2004
Post-Election Numbers
In Today's Washington Post, author Scott Turow has a piece about the numbers that let to Bush's election victory last month that is worth a read: A Dominant GOP? How So? The Washington Post, 12/26/2004...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
December 6, 2004
Fighting Back Against Spam
Last November, Lycos Europe launched a web service called 'Make Love, Not Spam' which allowed visitors to download a unique screen saver. The goal was to serve a little payback in unwanted traffic to the web sites promoted in spam...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
November 4, 2004
We Ask Ourselves The Same Question
This would sting even more if not from a country that still has a royal family. Then again, maybe we're kidding ourselves to think that we don't. thanks Nathanial for the forward...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Leaving's Not So Easy
Harper's Magazine online has a great article titled Electing to Leave that should be of interest to anyone who threated such action in the face of our current electoral outcome. Turns out, it's not as easy as you might think....
October 29, 2004
Headlines
Find the good news for Bush... I can't. from The Northern Virginia Journal - 10/29/84 - Iraqi troops slaughtered - First Md. flue case confirmed - FBI probes Halliburton contract...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
October 28, 2004
Congrats Boston!
for further reading: The Curse of the Bambino from Wikipedia thanks Steve for the picture...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
October 27, 2004
Lost and Found
Good music and bad movies, either can get lost. If you're a musician or film maker who managed to lose your work, don't give up hope. Lost items have been turning up everywhere lately. Last August came word that the...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Kicking Ass Online!
According to a report from Nielsen//NetRatings, Democrats.org is the fastest growing web site in the country....Shameful, Yet Shameless
Here's a column that everyone should read from today's Washington Post. The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy by Harold Myerson describes how the GOP no longer even tries to hide their voter suppression efforts. The good news is this will be...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
October 25, 2004
An Amazing Failure, Even for Bush
During his four year term as our court appointed President, George Bush has provided all too frequent examples of his incompetence; from turning record surpluses into record deficits, to starting wars with countries based on non-existent threats. But today's news...
October 5, 2004
Mrs. Dangerfield's Call
"Hello, is this Chris Casey?", the voice on the phone asked me. "Yes it is", I answered, as I usually do to that question. "This is Joan Dangerfield calling,"... long pause awaits some recognition from me that's not coming, "as...Link | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
July 20, 2004
A Senate Smackdown
Vice-President's recent suggestion on the floor of the United States Senate to Senator Patrick Leahy that he go somewhere and do something to himself is surely a high point in the Bush-Cheney Administration's efforts to 'restore a tone of civility...
July 13, 2004
Sen. Kennedy Profiled in Washington Post
The Washington Post has a great profile of Sen. Kennedy that is well worth a read. The article is titled The Kennedy Factor and looks at Kennedy's efforts on behalf of the Kerry campaign, and reflects on his long...Link | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
July 7, 2004