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December 2005 (1 entries)

Feed Me!

12/13/05 - Some months ago, I made the switch from MovableType to WordPress. One of the things this broke was RSS feeds. You can find a feed for all my entries at:... [read all]

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September 2005 (20 entries)

a shameless effort to tear us apart -- Mehlman would know

09/08/05 - I'm really bothered by the sing-song "blame-game" tossed about by the Right. There is, indeed, blame here. I was recently lectured by someone about other people's failure to accept "personal... [read all]

The Great Divide

09/08/05 - For Bush, a Deepening Divide By Dan Balz [T]he aftermath of Katrina's fury charts a clear deterioration in political consensus in the United States and a growing willingness to interpret... [read all]

Vox populi and mundus vult decipi

09/07/05 - It's sad to see so many people so earnestly attacking real science while defending Intelligent Design. I noticed that most of the defenders of ID use the terms "micro" and... [read all]

god's fingerprints

09/07/05 - Picture 638 Originally uploaded by mjhinton. Flickr: Photos from mjhinton... [read all]

Scathing Epitaph

09/06/05 - Alan Dershowitz: Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist - Yahoo! News Rehnquist's judicial philosophy was result-oriented, activist, and authoritarian. He sometimes moderated his views for prudential or pragmatic reasons,... [read all]

Time to Cut the Coast Guard's Budget

09/06/05 - news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway" href="http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0536,ridgewayweb,67412,2.html">village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway In this hurricane, the one government agency on the ball is the... [read all]

In League With the Devil -- or god

09/05/05 - HoustonChronicle.com - Some say natural catastrophe was 'divine judgment' "In my belief, God judged New Orleans for the sin of shedding innocent blood through abortion," said Steve Lefemine, [of] Columbia... [read all]

Aftermath

09/05/05 - " Media Matters "; by Jamison Foser ... [Media Matters] News outlets downplay Bush administration's failure to prepare for and respond to Hurricane Katrina So when Bush told ABC's Diane... [read all]

the pornification of advertising

09/04/05 - alibi . september 1 - 7, 2005 Ad Nauseum BK loves BJ? By Devin D. O'Leary For the last month or so, I--and most of America by extension--have been subjected... [read all]

what is Venezuela's Chavez doing that you hate so much?

09/04/05 - ABQjournal: Venezuela's Chavez Avoids Class War By Sergio Pareja, Law Professor "But what is Chavez doing that you hate so much?" I asked. "What, specifically, are his governing policies?" The... [read all]

Bill Moyers in Defense of Public Broadcasting

09/04/05 - In Orwell’s 1984, the character Syme, one of the writers of that totalitarian society’s dictionary, explains to the protagonist Winston, “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is... [read all]

A better leader

09/03/05 - Bush and Katrina:A time for action, not aloofness" href="http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=59884">The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 03-Sep-05 - Bush and Katrina:A time for action, not aloofness A better leader... [read all]

The Right is Wrong Again

09/03/05 - || RedState.org Katrina: The Political Hurricane By: Tim Saler Democrats want to play politics over the carnage, destruction, and devastation in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. They are using the bodies... [read all]

Creating A Nation of Ignoramuses

09/03/05 - I offer this is support of my rejection of the claim that Americans hold science in awe. In fact, this seems to be the new sex ed. Parents were unprepared... [read all]

Tuesday Deadline to Register to Vote

09/03/05 - ABQjournal: Tuesday Deadline to Register to Vote Journal Staff Report The deadline to register to vote in the Oct. 4 municipal election is Tuesday. To be eligible, you must register... [read all]

QOTD

09/02/05 - ABQjournal: Minimum Wage Hike Pressed, Could End Up On The Legislature's Calendar "We believe that nobody who works full time should live in poverty," said Christine Trujillo, president of the... [read all]

09/02/05 - ABQjournal: Minimum Wage Hike Pressed, Could End Up On The Legislature's Calendar By Barry Massey The Associated Press "Increasing the minimum wage is a proven way to decrease poverty," Gerry... [read all]

It's a nasty weapon

09/02/05 - ABQjournal: Bunker-Buster Critics Make N.M. Visit By John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer Weapons supporters say it could be an important military tool to destroy deep underground enemy bunkers. Critics say... [read all]

I am, indeed, a monkey's uncle

09/01/05 - Our disregard for our nearest kin is equal to our disregard for each other. More importantly, how few genetic changes there are between us. We are about to take sledgehammers... [read all]

Think About It, If You Still Can

09/01/05 - PowerPoint: Killer App? By Ruth Marcus The most disturbing development in the world of PowerPoint is its migration to the schools -- like sex and drugs, at earlier and earlier... [read all]

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August 2005 (27 entries)

Political Yard Signs Belong in YARDS

08/31/05 - MR and I have discussed this issue for many election cycles (the full story is below). We believe yard signs belong in yards, not in public spaces. So, starting with... [read all]

The Rio Grande Foundation

08/30/05 - Greg Burton's Albuquerque Blog -- Who Are These People? But who are these people? Well, the Rio Grande Foundation is a "free market" based economics foundation. In other words, they've... [read all]

The Front Range Ranger Express

08/30/05 - The Cherry Creek News - High Speed Commuter Rail Plan Unveiled Imagine a high speed ... commuter railroad whisking passengers from Cheyenne along Colorado's Front Range to Albuquerque and from... [read all]

Raise the Minimum Wage!

08/29/05 - ABQjournal: Mandated Minimum Wage Ships Jobs Outside City Limits By Kenneth M. Brown and Micha Gisser, The Rio Grande Foundation Obviously a $7.50 minimum wage would send a bad signal... [read all]

PhD of ID

08/29/05 - This is where ID supporters are taking us. Get your doctorate of bible sciences. mjh Lawsuit: UC biased vs. Christians A group representing California religious schools has filed a lawsuit... [read all]

QOTD

08/29/05 - "Maybe the hand of God is everywhere in the universe," says Dave Thomas, an Albuquerque scientist and president of New Mexicans for Science and Reason. "But it's not the job... [read all]

Born OK the First Time

08/29/05 - Watch very closely what is happening in the debate over evolution. Proponents of "Intelligent Design" (ID) insist they just want discussion; they want open-mindedness. Right. Anyone who believes Duhbya when... [read all]

I'm not laughing with Dimdahl, I'm laughing at him

08/29/05 - ABQjournal: Richardson Won a Battle, But CYFD's Bolson Won War By John Dendahl Laugh of the Month: Richardson remains obstinate. Despite environment-friendly natural gas production on super-enviro Ted Turner's Vermejo... [read all]

Fool me twice, Shame on me

08/27/05 - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / Power line fails, 700,000 homes blacked out In one of the most severe electricity problems since the energy crisis, blackouts hit Southern California on Thursday after a... [read all]

Liars For Christ

08/27/05 - Before Pat Robertson slips completely from our short attention spans and the 24 hour news cycle, let's take a moment to remember not only what an ass he is but... [read all]

Distrust

08/24/05 - Confidence In Military News Wanes By Josh White, Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 24, 2005; Page A04 The U.S. public's confidence that the military and the media keep them... [read all]

QOTD

08/24/05 - Wave of Marine Species Extinctions Feared "At the end of my career, I get to document the destruction of the species I've been documenting for 20 years," he lamented as... [read all]

Double Talk

08/18/05 - Limbaugh baselessly compared Cindy Sheehan to B ... [Media Matters] From the August 15 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her... [read all]

Trust, but Verify

08/14/05 - A friend wrote in response to my previous entry contrasting the way the Journal and the Sierra Club handled the story of Urenco and LES bringing nuclear materials refining to... [read all]

Don't worry, Be stupid

08/14/05 - ABQjournal: Netherlands Nuclear Plant Is the Model for N.M. By Harry Moskos, Of the Journal Herald Voschezang says New Mexicans need not fret over stored waste from Louisiana Energy Services'... [read all]

Perspectives

08/14/05 - ABQjournal: Wilson, City Councilor Tour Valle Vidal By Martin Salazar, Journal Northern Bureau Northern New Mexico rancher Alan Lackey hoped he was nevertheless able to drive home the point that... [read all]

an insane orgy of gore

08/14/05 - alibi . august 11 - 17, 2005 A Fool's Errand America should have heeded opponents of the Iraq War By Jim Scarantino We tried to squeeze in a dissenting word... [read all]

You don't need a weatherman...

08/13/05 - My house may be made of glass, but I an not ambivalent about an indifferent sea. peace, mjh... [read all]

Wireless Wave of the Future

08/13/05 - ABQjournal: Around the Metro Area Councilor Urges Wireless Network City Councilor Eric Griego will introduce a proposal Monday to explore the creation of a citywide wireless Internet network. Griego said... [read all]

Developing Nothing but Trouble

08/11/05 - ABQjournal: Communication Guru Sends a Mixed Message By Autumn Gray, Of the Journal Frank Luntz, called one of America's best "communication professionals,"... said he sees Albuquerque being left behind, in... [read all]

Subsidizing Industry

08/10/05 - ABQjournal: Subsidy-Laden Energy Bill Light on Conservation By David Cargo Former New Mexico Governor By failing to enact measures to reduce our nation's oil consumption, Congress has committed an unforgivable... [read all]

Specious vs species

08/09/05 - ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor All About Property Rights IT IS NOT about the wolf. It is about private property rights. ... Livestock owners do not have a dislike of... [read all]

Never again!

08/06/05 - Sunday Times: DEATH DROP: Never again, say A-bomb survivors [ 07aug05 ] "I thought I was dying, everyone was burning, and the students who were sitting next to the windows,... [read all]

Walking Raven

08/04/05 - Walking Raven: Why are We Here? Nonetheless, even the most cynical part of me finds it hard to believe that the answer to why I am here is to kill... [read all]

Oilman opposes drilling = Man bites dog

08/04/05 - ABQjournal: Valle Vidal Drilling Has High-Profile Opponent By Adam Rankin Journal Staff Writer A past president of the state's oil and gas lobbying group says he is speaking out against... [read all]

Pave Paradise

08/03/05 - Ah, Wilderness!: County Paving the Way to Chaco Chaco is in the middle of nowhere. That is part of the wonder. With pavement, the journey becomes only a little... [read all]

Serendipity's Child

08/01/05 - This is how the Web works for me. I was reading Chris's blog and saw his favorable comments about Seth's blog, so I went there. Somewhere on Seth's blog, he... [read all]

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July 2005 (36 entries)

Setting His Sights

07/29/05 - ABQjournal: Setting His Sights Roberto Rosales/Journal Scott David Benson, 12, practices his aim with a paintball gun at a shooting range on Wednesday, the first day of the three-day Rio... [read all]

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

07/29/05 - ABQjournal: Environmental Law Plans to Be Discussed Monday in Rio Rancho By Tania Soussan, Journal Staff Writer A congressional task force considering changes to one of the nation's most important... [read all]

Who Ya Gonna Believe? Vulcans or Enviros?

07/27/05 - ABQjournal: Judge Endorses Uranium Mining Plan A Nuclear Regulatory Commission judge has endorsed a mining company's plan to extract uranium near two Navajo Nation communities in northwestern New Mexico. Eastern... [read all]

N.M.'s Emissions Heavy

07/27/05 - ABQjournal: Study: N.M.'s Emissions Heavy; State Is Double National Average By John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer New Mexicans emit twice as much greenhouse gases per capita as the national average,... [read all]

Ich bin ein Westsider

07/26/05 - ABQjournal: Power Project Ugly to Some; PNM Lines Won't Be Underground By Aurelio Sanchez, Journal Staff Writer Residents on Paradise Boulevard are upset about "unsightly" overhead power lines that Public... [read all]

Damned Annoying

07/23/05 - ABQjournal: Letters to Outlook Fireworks are not bought or used for the purpose of annoying neighbors. And, for the most part, fireworks are annoying only to those who wish to... [read all]

NEPA Hearing, 10:00am on Monday, August 1st in Rio Rancho

07/22/05 - Take Action: Stand Up for NEPA NEPA is the guarantee that Americans affected by a federal action will get the best information about its impacts, a choice of good alternatives,... [read all]

Unnecessary, Tragic Death

07/22/05 - ABQjournal: Around N.M. Noted Gray Wolf Dies at Refuge Brunhilda, the charismatic Mexican gray wolf who became a star of the federal government's wolf reintroduction program and an enemy to... [read all]

N.M. Delegates Split on Extending Patriot Act

07/22/05 - ABQjournal: House Extends Patriot Act; N.M. Delegates Split on Bill By Glen Johnson After more than nine hours of debate, the House approved the measure 257-171. Forty-three Democrats joined 214... [read all]

Diametric Goals

07/22/05 - Japanese monks begin trek across West to remember nuclear bombings A lantern containing a remnant of the fire from a nuclear attack that destroyed Hiroshima is on its way to... [read all]

The Boon of Public Lands Exploitation

07/20/05 - ABQJOURNAL: Roswell Company Sole Bidder on Otero Mesa Lease The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group said its 2 1/2-year study of federal land records found oil and gas companies already... [read all]

What An Ass We Have In Trever

07/20/05 - Let's see Trever's latest gem: What we get from the ever clever Trever is a useful insight into the thoughts of opponents of a fair and living minimum wage. This... [read all]

Poetry X website

07/18/05 - Poetry X - Archive of Classic and Contemporary Poetry About Poetry X Poetry X is a web site devoted to reading, analyzing, and discussing the best in classic and contemporary... [read all]

Hiroshima, Nagasaki -- Next?

07/17/05 - I watched the news as tourists flocked to Trinity Site for the 60th aniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion. No one mentioned Hiroshima or Nagasaki or where we'll be... [read all]

American Terrorists

07/17/05 - The Daily Inter Lake The documentary "The Fire Next Time," a chronicle of two years of conflict in the Flathead Valley, will be seen by audiences nationwide July 12 and... [read all]

Reasonable Environmentalism

07/16/05 - ABQjournal: Future Water Is More Valuable Than Gas Royalties By Stephen Capra, Executive Director, N.M. Wilderness Alliance Oceans of water, enough to last hundreds of years are stored in this... [read all]

No Forest Here, Just a Bunch of Trees

07/16/05 - We interrupt this discussion of Karl Rove's email to bring you an important reminder: there were no WMDs and the world is considerably more violent than it was two years... [read all]

The Price of Playing God

07/16/05 - Health News Article | Reuters.com Asthma gene variants may cut risk of brain cancer New research suggests that gene variants, which are known to raise the risk of asthma, decrease... [read all]

So, How Credible is a Green Republican?

07/15/05 - Go read Jim Scarantino's column on the decline of environmentalists in public opinion (Enviros' sinking credibility starts at home); I'll wait. Done? OK. I appreciate Jim's thoughtful concern over this... [read all]

Novak's TWO Sources?

07/15/05 - Something isn't quite connecting for me in the matter of Karl Rove's involvement in the outing of a CIA agent. That's in spite of my belief that I have paid... [read all]

Worse Than Weeds

07/14/05 - Cell Phone Towers - Albuquerque, NM These are cell phone towers for Albuquerque, NM. Information is compiled from the FCC, and may not be all the towers in the area.... [read all]

Santa Fe City Council Approves Poet Laureate

07/14/05 - ABQjournal: Around Northern New Mexico Council Approves Poet Laureate Santa Fe city councilors approved the concept of having a poet laureate by giving the OK to the city Arts Commission's... [read all]

Santa Fe City Council Approves Poet Laureate

07/14/05 - ABQjournal: Around Northern New Mexico Council Approves Poet Laureate Santa Fe city councilors approved the concept of having a poet laureate by giving the OK to the city Arts Commission's... [read all]

Who Needs Eminent Domain?

07/13/05 - ABQjournal: Ridgetop Mansion Questioned By Laura Banish, Journal Staff Writer The bulldozers clearing the way for a 23,000-square-foot mansion on top of a summit in the Sierra del Norte neighborhood... [read all]

Weasel Shoots Wolf

07/13/05 - ABQjournal: Around New Mexico [A] necropsy on the alpha male of the Iris Pack, found dead in May along U.S. 60 near Vernon, Ariz., shows he was shot. Killing a... [read all]

Another Way to Respond

07/13/05 - CTV.ca | U.K. police hunt for fifth suspect: report Police in Britain are searching for the mastermind of the London attacks.... The British Broadcasting Corp. said police were hunting for... [read all]

'The land is a living being'

07/12/05 - ''The religion of the people revolves around the land and our harmony with the universe and our Creator. The land is a living being, in and of itself. The land... [read all]

Congressional Destruction of Habeas corpus

07/11/05 - Stop This Bill Washington Post Editorial Habeas corpus is the age-old legal process by which federal courts review the legality of detentions. In the modern era, it has been the... [read all]

The Earth is 'a sacrificial zone for oil and gas development'

07/11/05 - ABQjournal: Draft Redo May Open Last Carson Forest Acres By Adam Rankin, Journal Staff Writer A redone draft environmental review that could open the last 2,500 acres of the Carson... [read all]

a colossal failure

07/10/05 - This terror will continue until we take Arab grievances seriously by David Clark, The Guardian It must now be obvious, even to those who would like us to think otherwise,... [read all]

Saint Pete Goes to Hell

07/10/05 - KRQE News 13 - Domenici asks EPA to lower arsenic standards US Senator Pete Domenici has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider new standards for arsenic in water. reviewjournal.com... [read all]

You Are Forbidden to Read This

07/10/05 - Those citizens! They say the darndest things | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA In Pierce County's case, speakers who don't have nice things to say about council members are advised to... [read all]

More About the History Around the Monticello Box

07/10/05 - http://www.crosswindsweekly.com/cover1.htm The Red Paint Canyon Battle Defending a natural and cultural gem by Sherry Robinson, Crosswindsweekly Chief Victorio protested, “This country belongs to my people as it did to my... [read all]

The Truth About the Value & Costs of Wolves

07/07/05 - I was out of town when this article appeared on 6/12. It has some very important FACTS about the reintroduction of wolves to the southwest. mjh ABQjournal: Ranchers, Environmentalists Agree... [read all]

Getting the FACTS on Wolves

07/05/05 - ABQjournal: Wolves Aren't So Big Or Bad By Tania Soussan, Journal Staff Writer In the past 100 years, there have been fewer than 30 documented attacks by wild wolves on... [read all]

Let freedom howl

07/01/05 - ABQjournal: Wolf Supporters Speak Out By Tania Soussan, Journal Staff Writer Wolves have a place in the wild, and ranchers must find ways to live with them, supporters of the... [read all]

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June 2005 (25 entries)

Help Save A Special Place in New Mexico

06/30/05 - ABQjournal: Colo. Company Wants to Drill, but Locals Say Mining Would Hurt Area Resources By Tania Soussan, Journal Staff Writer [mjh: this is a long excerpt from a long article... [read all]

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

06/29/05 - Jury Acquits HealthSouth Founder of All Charges By Carrie Johnson Outside the courthouse, Scrushy told reporters that he was bolstered by the verdict. "There are a lot of wrongs that... [read all]

Blowing Smoke

06/29/05 - ABQjournal Opinion A Powerful Project For the Navajo Nation It's a power plant that will power both employment and Navajo tax coffers. And it will do so with minimal impact... [read all]

A Trying Spring, Indeed

06/28/05 - ABQjournal: Gila Wolf Killed By Feds By Tania Soussan, Journal Staff Writer The alpha male of the Ring Pack wolves was killed by a federal sharpshooter in the Gila National... [read all]

GOPublic TV

06/28/05 - The Armstrong Williams NewsHour - New York Times By FRANK RICH That doesn't mean the right's new assault on public broadcasting is toothless, far from it. But this time the... [read all]

Cal's Convenient Memory Lapse

06/27/05 - Cal Thomas: Bias runs deep at PBS Does this statement by Moyers on his Nov. 8, 2002, "NOW" program sound like it comes down on the side of the public?... [read all]

An Open Letter to Karl Rove

06/27/05 - Dear Karl Rove, Thank you for reminding us that 9-11, like Jesus, belongs forever to the Republican Party. I know you know that the public seldom punishes dim-witted, chest-thumping chickenhawks... [read all]

QOTD

06/26/05 - "I think if you asked God, he'd say the Ten Commandments were a road map for living. Instead, you have these self-appointed pharisees who think the Ten Commandments can be... [read all]

KNME-TV

06/25/05 - KNME-TV, Channel 5, is Albuquerque's public television station (PBS). The station is to be praised for many things and thumped for a few. In particular, I hope people make time... [read all]

Onward, Christian Overlords!

06/25/05 - NOW. Transcript. June 10, 2005 | PBS CHRISTOPHER HEDGES: The far Christian right has been very astute in building communications networks that enwrap millions of people essentially within their embrace.... [read all]

San Francisco Peaks, near Flagstaff, Arizona

06/24/05 - Arizona Daily Sun- Navajos appeal to U.N. to protect Peaks Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr., has gone to the United Nations to ask that the San Francisco Peaks be... [read all]

Dump Sue Wilson Beffort

06/23/05 - alibi . june 16 - 22, 2005 One state senator did attempt to deal with the issue during this year's legislative session. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort, who represents northeast Albuquerque... [read all]

How Much Water Does Coal Mining Use?

06/23/05 - Independent - June 20, 2005: Elders fight to keep land; Peabody opponent says elderly suffer from stress disorder By Kathy Helms Diné Bureau [A] group of residents who turned out... [read all]

"Government funding for public television amounts to just $1 per person per year"

06/23/05 - Journal Gazette | 06/23/2005 | PBS is investment in education By Pat Mitchell The Public Broadcasting Service and our stations are the single largest educational institution in America. As a... [read all]

QOTD

06/21/05 - Mind Over Mathematics: Astronomy and Number Don't fall into the trap of collapsing geometry into arithmetic!... [read all]

The Longest Day of the Year

06/21/05 - Happy Solstice, Everyone! And with a full moon. The perfect time to reflect upon the cycles and rhythms all around us throughout our lives. mjh... [read all]

This Must Be The Place

06/20/05 - This Must Be The Place by The Talking Heads (David Byrne) Home is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me round I feel numb - burn... [read all]

Wolves

06/07/05 - ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor Ranchers Deserve a Say NEW MEXICO RANCHERS are working harder than ever these days and are suffering numerous wolf problems— in contrast to whatever a... [read all]

If you know what is good for you, you will keep your mouth shut!

06/07/05 - ABQjournal: Lab Whistle-Blower Beaten By Adam Rankin, Journal Staff Writer A Los Alamos National Laboratory whistle-blower scheduled to meet with a congressional investigator this week was severely beaten early Sunday... [read all]

Personal Data for 6 Million Stolen in 6 Months

06/07/05 - Customer Data Lost, Citigroup Unit Says By Jonathan Krim A unit of financial services giant Citigroup Inc. said yesterday that a box of computer tapes with account information for 3.9... [read all]

Don't Cry for the Beach

06/06/05 - ABQjournal: All Dried Up: Beach Waterpark shuttered and for saleBy Charlotte Balcomb Lane, Journal Staff Writer Every June since 1987, the lines snaking up the big blue slide at The... [read all]

Oppose Secret Meetings to Expand the Unamerican Patriot Act

06/06/05 - This week. Tuesday, June 7, 2005, the Senate Intelligence Committee will be voting behind closed doors on a bill to expand the Patriot Act’s secret search powers. No matter the... [read all]

Shrinking Bargains are Stealth Price Increases

06/01/05 - Around Christmas time 2004, my neighborhood Smith's grocery put out displays of large Hershey's candy bars. A table appeared by the entrance, the first thing one saw, covered with stacks... [read all]

just on too many radar screens politically = we'll be back when folks are distracted

06/01/05 - ABQjournal: Developers Drop Rezoning Effort; Mobile Home Park Stays Put for Now By Debra Dominguez, Journal Staff Writer After forming a neighborhood association, holding several meetings and pleading to various... [read all]

Profits vs Living

06/01/05 - ABQjournal: Firms Seek Revision In Living Wage By Laura Banish, Journal Staff Writer Hundreds of people in Santa Fe County could lose their home health care services because of the... [read all]

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May 2005 (20 entries)

Memorial Day

05/30/05 - The Cincinnati Post - Distorted history demeans our past by James P. Pinkerton, Newsday what's new for Memorial Day 2005 is the recasting of America's past in such a way... [read all]

NIMBY (I don't own a cellphone)

05/30/05 - ABQjournal: Ruling on Tower Upsets Neighbors By Martin Salazar, Journal Staff Writer Arroyo Seco residents who waged a legal battle to bring down a 198-foot telecommunications tower near their homes... [read all]

Anonymous vs Eponymous by Dr Whatsittuya

05/29/05 - I've had a few nicknames over the years, most notably Gue, which a few old friends still call me. However, I've never represented myself as anyone other than Mark Justice... [read all]

Assault On the Media

05/28/05 - Assault On the Media By E. J. Dionne Jr. The war on Newsweek shifted attention away from how the Guantanamo prisoners have been treated, how that treatment has affected the... [read all]

GOP Tilting Balance Of Power to the Right

05/28/05 - GOP Tilting Balance Of Power to the Right By Jim VandeHei The campaign to prevent the Senate filibuster of the president's judicial nominations was simply the latest and most public... [read all]

Kraphammer Disses the Turncoats

05/28/05 - Profiles in Flinching By Charles Krauthammer The five losses were to be expected. Three were New Englanders: two from Maine (Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins) and one from Rhode Island... [read all]

The Informed Debate

05/28/05 - ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor RE: "GOVERNMENT SHOULD Not Set Wages" column by John Dendahl .... American capitalism has a long history of human exploitation. Dendahl seems not to understand... [read all]

Party in the Woods

05/26/05 - For the weekend, a dozen of us trekked to a sweet little spot I'd visited the week before. The place is called Resumidero and we all loved it on first... [read all]

United States is leading the way

05/26/05 - Inmates Alleged Koran Abuse One prisoner said in August 2002 that guards had "flushed a Koran in the toilet" and had beaten some detainees. But the Pentagon said yesterday that... [read all]

Turning 50

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Fan Mail

05/13/05 - From your blog: >Q: Who do you think you are? >A: I'm Mark Justice Hinton. Read every word to learn more about me. Well Mark, I have. Hmmm, another left-over... [read all]

Let Grow

05/12/05 - I like the simplest definition of a weed: a plant you don't want growing where it grows. My wife, Merri, is not only a great gardener, she is also a... [read all]

I Know I Slept Safer Last Night

05/10/05 - An inside source tells me the lead fiddler for the Old Blind Dogs, a scottish band playing in Albuquerque, could not enter the country because of 'passport irregularities.' The photo... [read all]

open land in the village of Los Ranchos

05/10/05 - ABQjournal: Village May Buy Open LandBy Carolyn Carlson, Journal Staff Writer One of the largest pieces of open land in the village of Los Ranchos could stay open space if... [read all]

Is the blogosphere racist?

05/05/05 - Fellow blogger Karlos Schmieder asked a question recently: Is the Blogosphere Racist? Can we agree on what the blogosphere is? It is not an organization with a leader or central... [read all]

What this war needs is celebrities.

05/04/05 - Real Side Radio: Jenna Bush Says "No More Butt Dancing for Me," Volunteers for Iraq. Media Wakes Up. Picture Jenna Bush making the announcement, with W's arm around her shoulders:... [read all]

the balance of power, which was a vital Christian contribution

05/03/05 - Journal Gazette | 04/25/2005 | Frist frosts Democrats with filibuster talk at faith forum Charles W. Colson, head of Prison Fellowship Ministries [and Nixon's hatchet man], also appeared by videotape.... [read all]

The Creation Museum

05/03/05 - About the Creation Museum The Creation Museum will proclaim to the world that the Bible is the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice and in every area... [read all]

He's Fleck -- Fleck! -- exciting!

05/02/05 - ABQjournal: AP Members Confer Honors on Journal The Albuquerque Journal took first-place honors for science writing, columns and sports writing in the New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors annual contest.... [read all]

Come to your own conclusions and express them freely

05/01/05 - I begin to understand that Matt Bohnsack and I have a fundamental communication problem. As some know, we've gone back and forth on a couple of issues on several different... [read all]

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April 2005 (43 entries)

Good Stewards

04/30/05 - ABQjournal: Dumped Cattle Carcasses Increase in Curry CLOVIS -- The Curry County sheriff says the area is seeing an increasing number of cattle carcasses dumped on the rights of way... [read all]

Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria

04/29/05 - I stumbled upon this show Thursday night at 11:30pm on PBS: Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria | Where America Meets the World. It was very interesting to hear 3 Muslims... [read all]

Conservatives For a Free Press

04/28/05 - Recently, I wrote a blog entry for www.dukecityfix.com about the public clash of two New Mexican Republicans. In public comments on that blog (see the link above), a very polite... [read all]

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano

04/25/05 - Synchronicity. Follow the first link for a dicussion of a new bill allowing Christians to refuse to serve others, which is sponsored by Dick Santorum ("'Santorum? Is that Latin for... [read all]

Justice Sunday: Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith

04/24/05 - Faith and the filibuster fight By Melissa Rogers The press release for the event states that certain judicial nominees are being opposed "because they are people of faith and moral... [read all]

Jack Abramoff

04/24/05 - Another chance to learn more about Jack Abramoff, a conservative Republican lobbyist-scoundrel and friend of Tom DeLay's. Albuquerque Journal readers should note that only the first half of this article... [read all]

Truth Teller

04/23/05 - mjh's Dump Bush weBlog: We will continue to fight for the truth. "Isn't it true that instead of fixing airline security, port security, mass transportation, local response, and securing loose... [read all]

E-mail hurts IQ more than pot

04/23/05 - Fortunately, blogging raises IQ almost as much as coffee! mjh CNN.com - E-mail hurts IQ more than pot - Apr 22, 2005 LONDON, England -- Workers distracted by phone calls,... [read all]

I'm Recycling on Earth Day

04/22/05 - Earth Day 2002 I celebrated Earth Day idling in line at the drive-up window. As I burned my part of the world's resources, I waited for chemical-laden beef raised on... [read all]

Local Man Makes Good

04/22/05 - I've always been a little hesitant to talk about how good life is. On the one hand, I know that life has ups and downs. I'm glad to be up... [read all]

Oh, The Payne

04/22/05 - Greg Payne makes a big deal about Eric Griego's campaign's failure to include occupations of donors. Isn't it odd that a state rep doesn't know that the Campaign Reporting Act... [read all]

Freedom of the Press

04/21/05 - "Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious... [read all]

Chaco Canyon Home Page

04/21/05 - Seeing an entry on Chaco Canyon at www.dukecityfix.com makes me point you to my Chaco Canyon Home Page. Lots of links, photos, maps, etc. And it makes me start to... [read all]

Wolf Haters

04/20/05 - Boo-hoo for the poor wolf-haters who couldn't get adequate representation in public meetings like the one held in Reserve, in Catron county, not a liberal hotbed. But, fortunately, they didn't... [read all]

Oklahoma City

04/20/05 - I remember the day after the bombing of Oklahoma City, I was at the Y. Two guys near me discussed loudly how likely it was that the government (read, "Democrats")... [read all]

A Poke in the Eye

04/19/05 - Albuquerque sits in a magical location under a perfect sky. The Sandia Mountains loom large and close, the crest a mile above us and not 10 miles away, defining our... [read all]

The Duke City Fix Blog Collective

04/18/05 - It's official. A new blog collective (like a borg collective but with less hardware) has started: Duke City Fix You'll recognize many of the names involved, including mine. I'll be... [read all]

A Defense of Liberalism

04/18/05 - Letters - Daily Lobo - Opinion Political arguments need more than just the facts Editor, The column by Andrew Price, "The true meaning of 'liberal,'" in Tuesday's Daily Lobo provides... [read all]

QOTD

04/17/05 - "Friday, the Stock Market suffered its third triple digit loss in a week. The good news is your Social Security funds aren't in there YET." -- Amy Pohler, Weekend Update,... [read all]

I will not be categorized

04/17/05 - Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 20% Yankee 10% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? 15. "Y'all"...Just rolls off your... [read all]

Right and Wrong at Once

04/16/05 - "It's not cheap to defend the constitution," Mike McEntee said without a trace of irony. Remember McEntee? It's been years since he violated city law by running a blatantly partisan... [read all]

Duhbya

04/15/05 - Now this I'm proud of. I'm in the top 20 for Google Search: worst president ever. Out of over 6,000,000 sites! I'll bet visitors don't even know about my related... [read all]

There must be freedom and there must be peace.

04/15/05 - Radical Feminist Writer Andrea Dworkin Dies (washingtonpost.com) By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post Staff Writer Ms. Dworkin spent her career exploring what she considered the subordination of women, which she saw... [read all]

More Paris Hiltons

04/15/05 - The Founders broke with England, a class-based society. They recognized the limitless accumulation of wealth over generations inevitably leads to an aristocracy. The Republican party today has made itself the... [read all]

Lofty Heights

04/14/05 - Architectural rendering software doesn't handle people so well. Or do these units come with a robot housekeeper? I do like the wall poster. It could be Eisenhower or Mao. Maoist... [read all]

our own stupidity

04/14/05 - The Albuquerque Tribune: Science By Anna Macias Aguayo, Associated Press Federal officials are still at a loss to explain how the potentially deadly strain could be sent to more than... [read all]

we know 21st-century technology guarantees the land's protection

04/14/05 - Is Congress doing the right thing by opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration? Yes. by Sen. Lisa Murkowski But if Arctic oil development was going... [read all]

Scene: A somewhat seedy looking diner somewhere outside of Houston, Texas.

04/14/05 - If you don't know the Whiskey Bar by Billmon, you should check it out. He writes straight-forward criticism, but he also branches out into semi-fiction. Read the whole piece I've... [read all]

A Plague On Their House

04/13/05 - Labs scramble to destroy deadly flu virus by Mark Oliver Scientists around the world were scrambling today to prevent the possibility of a pandemic after it emerged that a deadly... [read all]

Even the Infallible Make Mistakes

04/12/05 - The Writer's Almanac - APRIL 11 - 17, 2005 It was on this day in 1633 that Galileo was put on trial for publishing evidence that the sun and not... [read all]

Loud Mouth

04/12/05 - Yesterday, as I entered the UNM Continuing Education building, I heard a very loud man talking. We've all encountered oblivious cell phone users, but this guy may be a prize-winner.... [read all]

transmission lines across the caldera

04/10/05 - ABQjournal: Caldera Case Now in Fed CourtBy Adam Rankin The energy company that wants to build a geothermal power plant in the heart of the Valles Caldera National Preserve is... [read all]

Just How Liberal is UNM?

04/10/05 - UNM women question equity - Daily Lobo - News by Karina Guzzi There are about 300 female faculty members and 500 male faculty members at UNM. ... According to [The... [read all]

Best Wishes to the Groom and Groom from the GOP

04/10/05 - The New York Times > Washington > G.O.P. Consultant Weds His Male Partner By ADAM NAGOURNEY Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged... [read all]

Republicans who control Congress are pretty touchy

04/08/05 - You recall that a week ago Domenici slapped down Richardson for lying about there being an energy bill (OK, Pete didn't use the word "lie," but he said there was... [read all]

Clever Trever Two

04/08/05 - Trever works his magic bringing together (1) sanctioned paintball assaults on wildlife, (2) the painted ponies art project and (3) Abq's mishandling of a visiting art exhibit. Cute, clever.... [read all]

Paintball IS a Crime

04/07/05 - ABQjournal: Paintballers May Play Tag the Elk By Jeff Jones, Journal Staff Writer The New Mexico Game and Fish Department is considering springtime paintball "disruption hunts" to spook elk out... [read all]

Come Visit, Move Elsewhere

04/07/05 - ABQjournal: ABQ 2nd in Sprawl in Rockies StudyBy Jim Ludwick, Journal Staff Writer The Albuquerque area ranks second in the Rocky Mountains for its urban sprawl, according to a new... [read all]

Letting You Down

04/06/05 - I've been remote, I know. Each day you come back, wondering, 'where is he?' 'He could be hurt!' 'Why isn't he blogging!' Sorry -- my real life overwhelmed my virtual... [read all]

QOTD

04/03/05 - From News Hounds: We watch FOX so you don't have to. Fox News Channel ad introduces new motto A sexy female voice-over says "We're always live" .... FNC shows re-runs... [read all]

Anti-Gay Protest Starts at UNM

04/02/05 - ABQjournal: Around Northern New Mexico Anti-Gay Protest Starts at UNM An anti-gay church group has apparently rescheduled its planned Santa Fe protest, and they plan to kick off their New... [read all]

37th, 49th, whatever

04/02/05 - ABQjournal: N.M. Ranks 37th in U.S. in Per-Pupil Spending By Gabriela C. Guzman New Mexico ranks 37th in the nation for per-pupil education spending, according to a report recently released... [read all]

Cranky Saint Pete

04/01/05 - In his speech to the National Wildlife Federation’s annual meeting, [New Mexico Governor Bill] Richardson claimed: “There’s an energy bill before Congress. It is a bad bill. It is a... [read all]

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March 2005 (62 entries)

John Leo Lies

03/31/05 - USNews.com: John Leo: A regrettable limit on life (4/4/05) Think of the Terri Schiavo case as another red-versus-blue issue. Congress, Republican-dominated and therefore mostly red, asked the federal courts to... [read all]

Killing Free Speech One Town Hall at a Time

03/31/05 - In case you missed the story, 3 people who legitimately obtained tickets to a Bush "Town Hall" were ejected because one of them had an unsupportive bumper sticker on her... [read all]

Pssst. Wanna know a secret?

03/31/05 - Well, I can't tell you everything just yet. I can say I've joined another blog collective and you'll be able to read it soon. This group has a focus on... [read all]

Liberals Want Your Children!

03/30/05 - I am shocked, absolutely shocked, to discover that college faculties are overwhelmingly liberal, according to an overwhelmingly conservative study. How can it be that people who devote their lives to... [read all]

Saint Pete on Call-in Radio

03/30/05 - Thursday morning, 3/31, Pete Domenici will be on 770 KKOB AM, answering questions. 9:00 am - 10:00 (505) 243-3333 (in Albuquerque) Or Toll Free on your Verizon or Alltel Wireless... [read all]

QOTD

03/30/05 - "Now that I, too, am a professional whore, I can see that the sharp distinction I used to draw between the working press and the shoe scrapings of the PR... [read all]

Synchronicity

03/29/05 - The Writer's Almanac On this day in 1973, the last American combat troops left Vietnam, ending the direct involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. Several thousand civilian... [read all]

QOTD

03/29/05 - What I finally had to confront was the fact that truth alone is impotent in the face of modern propaganda techniques – as developed, field tested, refined and deployed by... [read all]

QOTD

03/28/05 - "I'm a warrior, and I know what is inside of me." -- Michael Jackson "It's very painful, but this has kind of been a pattern among black luminaries in this... [read all]

Island of Lost Souls

03/28/05 - Technology News: Health : New Hope for Cat Allergy Sufferers Scientists have made a breakthrough in efforts to prevent allergies caused by cats, it has emerged. They have developed a... [read all]

Noisies vs Greedies

03/28/05 - [From Colorado Luis, a tale that should be of interest to us all.] One sideDirector's Update The Super Slab was sold as a tax-free way to solve our transportation woes.... [read all]

Happy Birthday, Robert Frost

03/26/05 - The Writer's Almanac - MARCH 21 - 27, 2005 It's the birthday of poet Robert Frost, born in San Francisco (1874). His journalist father died of tuberculosis when young Robert... [read all]

QOTD

03/26/05 - Montana News Association "I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us all going out there beating our chest about our faith," said British... [read all]

QOTD

03/25/05 - via NewMexiKen: "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolved, and the people recovering their true sight, restoring their government to its... [read all]

Worst! President! Ever!

03/23/05 - ABQjournal: Vocal Protesters Object To Bush Social Security Plan By Miguel Navrot, Journal Staff Writers Demonstrators riled over a proposed Social Security overhaul gathered to chant and yell Tuesday morning... [read all]

The Company We Keep

03/23/05 - I like to think I defy categorization. According to the Political Compass Questionaire (about 6 pages of questions without any "no opinion" choices), I am "Libertarian Left." Better yet, my... [read all]

"The Blue Blanket" by Sue Ellen Thompson

03/23/05 - The Writer's Almanac - MARCH 21 - 27, 2005 "The Blue Blanket" by Sue Ellen Thompson Toward the end, my father argued with my mother over everything: He wanted her... [read all]

QOTD

03/23/05 - Washington > Conservatives: G.O.P. Right Is Splintered on Schiavo Intervention" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/politics/23repubs.html?ei=5090&en=b374f7629523357d&ex=1269234000&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all&position=">The New York Times > Washington > Conservatives: G.O.P. Right Is Splintered on Schiavo Intervention "This Republican Party of... [read all]

QOTD

03/22/05 - Darwinism and Its Discontents (washingtonpost.com) [I]n an 1860 debate at Oxford University, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce -- a leading critic of Darwinism -- mockingly asked scholar T.H. Huxley whether he was... [read all]

Two Branches of Government Attack the Third

03/22/05 - ABC News: GOP Talking Points on Terri Schiavo March 21, 2005 -- The following memo listing talking points on the Terri Schiavo case was circulated among Republican senators on the... [read all]

Don't wait for permission

03/22/05 - Column: Not right time for gay rights by Dane Roberts Daily Lobo columnist I wish the debate on gay marriage could be put on hold. ... [P]ushing for legalized gay... [read all]

Bingaman and Udall on Social Security

03/22/05 - SENATOR JEFF BINGAMAN SPEAKING ON SOCIAL SECURITY: A CRISIS? Wednesday, March 23, 7:00 PM UNM Law School, Room 2401 Stanford Drive, north of Lomas, south end of golf course All... [read all]

the two Americas

03/22/05 - Daily Howler: In Scarborough Country, viewers got worked by a brilliant ''Nobel nominee'' What are the two Americas? If you read the Washington Post, you read about a woman who... [read all]

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

03/22/05 - ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor A Modest Proposal RATHER THAN DRILL the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and Otero Mesa and the Valle Vidal for gas, why not strip... [read all]

Right to Die for New Mexicans

03/21/05 - Life Planning in New Mexico, by Merri Rudd - Abogada Press includes: Health Care Decisions in New Mexico: Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act; Right to Die and End-of-Life Decisions; EMS-DNR Orders;... [read all]

THE TERRI SCHIAVO INFORMATION PAGE(s)

03/21/05 - Abstract Appeal -- by Matt Conigliaro THE TERRI SCHIAVO INFORMATION PAGE As a Florida law blogger, I have created this page to help people understand the legal circumstances surrounding the... [read all]

Bush's Flip Flop

03/21/05 - News Hounds: Bush Hypocrisy on Terri Schiavo Ignored by FOX, the "Real Journalism" Network While FOX News reporters fall over each other trying to prove their concern for the life... [read all]

QOTD

03/21/05 - News Hounds: Bush Hypocrisy on Terri Schiavo Ignored by FOX, the "Real Journalism" Network "The conservative constituency appears to consist exclusively of the Unborn, the Born-Rich, the Born-Again and the... [read all]

Radio Postscript

03/19/05 - The show went fairly well as judged by many; the hour flew by. It was fun -- nice bunch of folks, lively, bright and friendly. Thanks to those of you... [read all]

How to Read a Blog

03/19/05 - If you're new to this, let me point out a couple of things. Blogs are organized in reverse chronological order -- newest first, oldest last. You will see things that... [read all]

Happy Anniversary

03/19/05 - Today is the 2nd anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Two full years of destruction and death; how many more? As you pause to wish all the soldiers could... [read all]

Party with the Air Force!

03/18/05 - ABQjournal: Del Norte Wins 'Perfect Prom' Del Norte students thought they were attending a regular St. Patrick's Day assembly Thursday but were surprised when representatives from the Air Force gave... [read all]

Payneful Moments

03/18/05 - From No Payne - No Gain: (1) "the ultra-sensitive 'thinking class' at the Journal editorial board" (2) "But the Journal's action brings to mind a line from Hamlet. To paraphrase,... [read all]

One Facet of Liberalism

03/18/05 - Colorado Luis [T]his compromise is a victory for liberalism, broadly defined as the belief that government is something more than just the enemy that steals your money through taxation. It's... [read all]

Another Crisis, this one in energy

03/17/05 - Senate votes for Arctic drilling "How high do gas prices have to get, and how over-a-barrel does OPEC have to get us, before we realize what the American people have... [read all]

QOTD

03/17/05 - CEOs are fond of saying "Our employees are our most valuable asset," and then they merrily go about announcing layoffs, which means they are giving away, for free, the company... [read all]

Listen to Bloggers (Updated 3/19/05)

03/16/05 - No, seriously, listen to four of us on Saturday, when "progressive" Republican, While the Radical Right Arrests Them Both" href="http://www.edgewiseblog.com/mjh/000743.htm">Jim Scarantino, launches his brand new local talk radio show by... [read all]

The Short List of Noteworthy Senators (updated 3/19/05)

03/16/05 - Arctic Senate Vote Below is a list of U.S. Senators and their votes on the Cantwell amendment to keep Arctic Refuge drilling from the Senate Budget Resolution. A "y" indicates... [read all]

Don't Feel Sorry for Drillers

03/16/05 - ABQjournal: Talk of the Town Don't Feel Sorry for Drillers THERE IS AN arrogance that comes with being the biggest bully on the block. Chuck Moran, president of the Independent... [read all]

Every facet of humanity

03/16/05 - Liberal Bloggers Reaching Out to Major Media By JONATHAN D. GLATER [Bob Fertik, president of Democrats.com,] maintains that the blurring of boundaries has benefited left-wing bloggers less than their adversaries... [read all]

You Are What You Eat

03/16/05 - Am I the only one disturbed by the Burger King Singing Cowboy commercial? If you give it only the slightest notice, you might see a retro commercial with a nice... [read all]

Desert Snow

03/15/05 - This may be the best snow storm in Albuquerque in the 20 years I have lived here. Certainly the best in more than 10 years. mjh Flickr: mjhinton's photos tagged... [read all]

March is Women's History Month

03/15/05 - Noelle has a great series highlighting historical women from around the world for Women's History Month at hedgeblog. mjh From Hypatia of Alexandria: All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and... [read all]

O, Ye of Too Much Faith!

03/14/05 - ABC News: Answers Sought After Church Group Shooting Terry Ratzmann, a buttoned-down churchgoer known for sharing homegrown vegetables with his neighbors, walked into the room and police said he shot... [read all]

He's Coming Back! - Updated 3-15

03/12/05 - ABQjournal: Bush To Push Plan in N.M. WASHINGTON— President Bush is expected to visit New Mexico— possibly next week— as part of his national tour to drum up support for... [read all]

Update on Santa Fe Hate Crime

03/12/05 - ABQjournal: 3 More Indicted In Gay Man's Beating By Jeremy Pawloski, Journal Staff Writer Deputy District Attorney Shari Weinstein, who presided over defendant Isaia Medina's arraignment Friday in District Court,... [read all]

A Progressive Responds to a Moderate's Slap,
While the Radical Right Arrests Them Both

03/11/05 - Jim Scarantino is an odd duck. He's an environmentalist AND a Republican. No, seriously, stop laughing! He's a Republican AND he dislikes Bush -- lots more of those around, not... [read all]

Dumbest Quote of the Day

03/10/05 - ABQjournal: Bill Saying N.M. Marriage Must Be Between Man and Woman Advances to House By Kate Nash, Journal Capitol Bureau Sen. William Sharer said his bill aims to provide the... [read all]

101°

03/09/05 - 101° Glenn Gould plays Bach as I step on that distant shore handing my coppers to the boatman I look up the bank for you among the crowd scanning the... [read all]

"It was as if I'd had a hallucination."

03/07/05 - The Writer's Almanac - MARCH 7 - 13, 2005 On this day in 1923, Robert Frost's poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," was published in the New Republic... [read all]

We Pay Taxes, So You Shut Up!

03/07/05 - ABQjournal: Otero Mesa Drilling No Longer Economical By Chuck Moran, president Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico The petroleum industry in New Mexico (you know, the businesses that pumped $1.3... [read all]

The Messiah's Senator

03/05/05 - alibi . march 3 - 9, 2005 The Messiah's Senator By Jim Scarantino On Valentine's Day, Republican state Sen. Mark Boitano, who represents part of Albuquerque's Northeast Heights, joined opponents... [read all]

Albuquerque Call Center Wins Visit from Some Guy

03/05/05 - From the Desk of the CEO of AOL On behalf of myself, the board, and our shareholders, I feel required to thank you for your recent efforts in winning the... [read all]

anti-environmentalists

03/04/05 - ABQjournal: Environmentalists Hijack Public Land Multiple Use By John Dendahl, For the Journal Unconfused by embarrassing facts, Richardson remains a panderer to obstructionists. There are myriad reasons familiar to nearly... [read all]

More Education

03/03/05 - Quirky Burque: Chris & the meaningless Rock Social engineering, folks, for a more sophisticated audience. An audience that will soon think it rebellious to become a church-going Corporation Man again... [read all]

Education is more than job hunting

03/03/05 - I was listening to the KUNM weekly call-in show today. The discussion was economic development and, in particular, how tax cuts attract businesses. Everyone mentioned eduction repeatedly in the narrowest... [read all]

You Have All The Rights the Cops Grant You

03/03/05 - As the Clovis She-Devils case makes it's way through the legal system, don't forget what it is really about: mjh's Blog: Twisting Tales to Hide Abuse of Power "He apparently... [read all]

Giant Fountain, 6 Story Buildings, 6 Lane Roads

03/02/05 - ABQjournal: Development Concerns Neighbors By Rory McClannahan, Journal Staff Writer Neighbors of a proposed business and housing development at Paradise and Eagle Ranch would like to see its buildings constructed... [read all]

Evil Among Us

03/01/05 - ABQjournal: Attack Puts Gay Man in Hospital By Jeremy Pawloski, Journal Staff Writer Hate crimes are alive and well in Santa Fe, according to court records describing a vicious Sunday... [read all]

23 Square Miles for Canned Hunting of OUR Wildlife

03/01/05 - ABQjournal: Larger Game Parks Approved in Senate By Barry Massey, The Associated Press SANTA FE— Larger private game parks could be established in New Mexico under a measure approved Monday... [read all]

Connect The Dots: 4 & 5

03/01/05 - Four:ABQjournal: Volcano Cliffs Builder Revises Plan By Andrea Schoellkopf, Journal Staff Writer A developer who was initially trying to avoid the new city impact fees now says he'll try for... [read all]

Stick a Fork in Him -- He's Done!

03/01/05 - ABQjournal: Points and Counterpoints on Dendahl Use of Column Questioned JOHN DENDAHL'S incomprehensible rant on topics ranging from Marxist theory to Sen. Jeff Bingaman's voting record would be laughable had... [read all]

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February 2005 (20 entries)

A Conservative Just Like Duhbya

02/28/05 - Letters "Who defines your values?" is the heading on a Campus Progress advertisement in last week's Daily Lobo. The villains in this ad are Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly and James... [read all]

Connect The Dots

02/26/05 - One: ABQjournal: Bill Would Fund New Coors Rules By Andrea Schoellkopf, Journal Staff Writer City Councilor Michael Cadigan, who represents the upper West Side, has introduced a bill that would... [read all]

Greedy Capitalists Don't Care What You Think -- They Don't Have To

02/25/05 - Take a Walk on the Wild Side By JIM DOHERTY Call it the grizzly test. Require all would-be developers to take it. If you want to drill for oil in... [read all]

Our Corporate Overlords

02/24/05 - I don't usually cross-post among my 5 or so blogs, but I have to ask you: Do you know who Jeff Gannon is? If not, please follow the link. mjh's... [read all]

Cruel Rural New Mexico

02/23/05 - Let's summarize this recent legislative activity (details below): we will continue to allow people to attach razor blades to roosters to fight to the bloody death. We will allow anyone... [read all]

IMAGINE WATERGATE 2005

02/23/05 - Welcome to uExpress featuring Richard Reeves -- The Best Advice and Opinions The Universe! IMAGINE WATERGATE 2005 by Richard Reeves It was the persistence and courage of the press that... [read all]

Buck the Public Mood

02/22/05 - Crossmap News| 'Simpsons' Animates Homosexual Marriage, Stirs Debate L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Parents Television Council, criticized "The Simpsons" for addressing the issue of gay marriage, though he... [read all]

Unintelligent Design

02/21/05 - Magazine > The Way We Live Now: Unintelligent Design" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/magazine/20WWLN.html?ei=5090&en=dc8de961f4e932be&ex=1266642000&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all&position=">Unintelligent Design By JIM HOLT What can we tell about the designer from the design? While there is much that... [read all]

Ernestine Hinton

02/21/05 - Ernestine Hinton loved all kinds of fabric. She frequented fabric stores, buying yards of cloth she liked, which she piled in an out-of-the-way corner solely to paw through, no specific... [read all]

Bless the Simpsons!

02/21/05 - I hope you saw last night's Simpsons, in which Lisa Simpson advocated Springfield allow same-sex marriages. It was in part an economic argument but she added that they could be... [read all]

Twisting Tales to Hide Abuse of Power

02/19/05 - Whether you're familiar with this case or not, please compare the following quote from today's Albuquerque Journal (2/19/05) with the next quote from the Clovis News (2/15/05). ABQjournal: Clovis Man's... [read all]

...ALL WET IN ALBUQUERQUE...

02/19/05 - National Weather Service Forecast Office - Albuquerque, NM BETWEEN JANUARY 1 2005 AND 500 AM TODAY...FEBRUARY 19 2005...A TOTAL OF 2.84 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN RECORDED AT THE ALBUQUERQUE... [read all]

Lunar New Year in Albuquerque

02/14/05 - See Pika's photo essay of Lunar New Year in ABQ.... [read all]

The State of the Union

02/11/05 - The Austin Chronicle: Columns: Letters at 3AM No. 1? BY MICHAEL VENTURA • The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (The New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).... [read all]

New Blogger

02/11/05 - Welcome a new voice to the blogosphere: What I REALLY Think... [read all]

open season on mountain lions

02/10/05 - ABQjournal: Rep. Introduces Cougar Hunting Measure, By Jeff Jones, Journal Staff Writer A northeastern New Mexico lawmaker wants to declare open season on mountain lions. Rep. Brian Moore, R-Clayton, is... [read all]

Cutting Trees Isn't Cheap

02/09/05 - ABQjournal: Forest Service Plans Cut Both Ways By Tania Soussan The Forest Service's Tajique plan calls for thinning with tree cutting and prescribed burns over 10 years starting this summer.... [read all]

Which part of the silence are they claiming you nicked?

02/08/05 - You can't say that, because the bullies own it BY HENRY KISOR Then there was Michael Batt, the avant-garde composer who was sued for creating a work called "One Minute's... [read all]

Study shows American teenagers indifferent to freedoms -- Actions may say otherwise

02/04/05 - First Amendment no big deal, students say The way many high school students see it, government censorship of newspapers may not be a bad thing, and flag burning is hardly... [read all]

Liberty Liberal

02/01/05 - Immature protests ignore need to fight radical Islam [F]or those who protested during Bush's inauguration, they should realize they lost and stand behind the commander in chief. ... If you... [read all]

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January 2005 (17 entries)

The world before Roe v. Wade

01/24/05 - by Sharon Kayne With the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade coming up this Saturday [1/22/05], it’s easy to think of abortion as a relatively recent issue — as an... [read all]

Ted Kooser

01/24/05 - With a link, johnny_mango brings me back to our new Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. A poet for the people In early October, Kooser took over as the "Poet Laureate Consultant... [read all]

The Real Inaugural Address

01/22/05 - Greetings from Richmond, Virginia, the Capital of the Confederacy. My name is Jefferson Davis and I am here to accept my mandate – the people have spoken! It was never... [read all]

Lightbulb Joke

01/22/05 - Best of the Blogs Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb. It's... [read all]

Living in the Christian Nation of America

01/21/05 - Newspaper shouldn't print Liberal voices Why does The Daily Independent print the degenerate views of poisonous Liberals who hate freedom? [T]he glorious Constitution is there to protect the rights of... [read all]

'There are lies, damn lies and statistics.' -- Churchill

01/20/05 - I appreciate John Fleck informing us all on statistics, in this case the misuse (or misunderstanding) of certain stats by Greg Payne. mjh Greg Payne's Statistical Education "[I]t's important not... [read all]

Ojito Wilderness

01/19/05 - Took a hike with friends near Ojito, probably a bit east of the proposed Wilderness. Amazing terrain. Follow the link to a few pictures. mjh Flickr: Photos tagged with ojito... [read all]

He's Been to the Mountaintop

01/17/05 - Martin Luther King, Jr., "I've Been to the Mountaintop" And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out.... [read all]

Until The Night, by Billy Joel

01/14/05 - I've been listening to 52nd Street by Billy Joel. There are a couple of tunes I don't like, but three that I still love almost a quarter century later: Stilleto,... [read all]

Photos from El Malpais

01/14/05 - I took a daytrip to El Malpais National Monument and Conservation Area, south of Grants, New Mexico. Here are some of the photos. Flickr: Photos tagged with malpais Flickr:... [read all]

Rally to Protect Public Lands

01/14/05 - Join the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, the Coalition for Valle Vidal, the Coalition for Otero Mesa and Natural Resources Defense Council for a rally for America's wildest public lands, focusing... [read all]

Marching Orders and those who march when told to

01/12/05 - It seems Mariano Grinbank thinks Democrats are worse than Republicans for trying to be their equals at shaping the discussion ("marching orders" 1/6/05). Sure, there are Democrats who believe winning... [read all]

I do love language

01/10/05 - I almost never take these quizzes -- I really don't like such things because I always want some choice that isn't listed. As I did this one, I thought the... [read all]

North American Vexillological Association

01/08/05 - NEW MEXICO TOPS STATE/PROVINCIAL FLAGS SURVEY, GEORGIA LOSES BY WIDE MARGIN 10 June 2001 NAVA - AMERICAN CITY FLAGS SURVEY #25 Albuquerque, NM I can't remember ever seeing the City... [read all]

Generous Jeffry

01/07/05 - The Albuquerque Tribune: Columnists Jeffry Gardner: Poor, miserly liberals Ah, those socially and economically advanced blue-region inhabitants - enlightened, wealthy and miserly. There isn't a blue state in the top... [read all]

Personal cellphone booth

01/07/05 - Personal cellphone booth - Engadget - www.engadget.com If you just can't keep your yapping to a respectable sound level, then do the rest of us a favor and hook yourself... [read all]

Happy Birthday, New Mexico!

01/06/05 - New Mexico was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on this date in 1912. [Thanks, NewMexiKen]... [read all]

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December 2004 (33 entries)

Cold Lang Syne

12/31/04 - The coyotes celebrated New Years Eve down by the frozen lake. Their singing at midnight woke us from a deep sleep snug in our tent piled high with bags, blankets... [read all]

Happy New Year, Everyone!

12/31/04 - Wishing the World happy times in 2005! mjh Google Press Center: Zeitgeist 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist Search patterns, trends, and surprises... [read all]

Merri Rudd's Folk E-News

12/30/04 - Check out (mi esposa) Merri Rudd's website for Folk E-News, a monthly list of upcoming folk music and dance related events throughout New Mexico (and sometimes beyond). mjh Merri Rudd,... [read all]

Cal Thomas is a selfish idiot

12/30/04 - Cal Thomas More than 40 million children have been killed legally in America since the Supreme Court imposed Roe vs. Wade on the nation 32 years ago next month. Democrats... [read all]

Gracious Republicans

12/30/04 - Rossi calls for another election By CHRIS McGANN "A revote would be the best solution for the people of our state," [Republican Dino] Rossi said at a news conference in... [read all]

Christmas Luminarias in Albuquerque

12/27/04 - Pika has a good photo essay of luminarias / farolitos in Albuquerque, New Mexico. mjh Christmas Luminarias in Albuquerque: Making Holiday Luminarias... [read all]

Am I Moral?

12/24/04 - In the election, 20% of voters indicated "moral values" (a very vague phrase) guided their choice. Though this is a small percentage, certainly smaller than the percentage that believe all... [read all]

Bask

12/21/04 - like nervous reptiles skittering among the rocks safe haven but never secure warmed from the outside animated by a distant source a shadow freezes and frightens us we run for... [read all]

The Reason For The Season

12/21/04 - Solace of solstice by JOHN FOYSTON Being merry in the depth of darkness is a darned sight easier knowing that the sun hasn't gone away forever, and Tuesday's winter solstice... [read all]

All Payne, No Brain

12/20/04 - So, Greg Payne has joined the blovisphere (see bloviate) -- these really are the times that try men's souls. The aptly named Payne insists he's never been called boring --... [read all]

'Santa and Jesus are side-by-side'

12/20/04 - The Daily Aneurysm at jabartlett.com Even though I am a liberal (and thus, as we've been told all month, an enemy of Christmas) and not religious (which makes me an... [read all]

What next? Tom Clancy as Homeland Security Secretary?

12/19/04 - Kudos to our own John Fleck for responding to Michael Chrichton, the fiction writer. ABQjournal: Anti-Greenhouse Argument Hot Air By John Fleck I call it "the Galileo argument." It frequently... [read all]

The Radical Truth-Teller

12/18/04 - Free Will Astrology : Taurus Horoscope I'd ask you to begin building a Truth Shrine in your home. This source of power might help you stay alert for and immune... [read all]

Avoiding the Draft

12/18/04 - Hey, kids, here's some advice from your grandfolks on avoiding the draft. Roberta Price's Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture alibi . december 16 - 22, 2004 Joe,... [read all]

QOTD

12/18/04 - God's clock By James Carroll Religion is to God what the clock is to time.... [read all]

Happy Birthday, Dad

12/17/04 - It happens every year – I can't quite remember which day is my Dad's birthday. Lou Hinton was born 12/16/1917 on a farm in central Tennessee, but I always miss-remember... [read all]

Happy Birthday, cabq.gov

12/17/04 - Happy 10th Birthday www.cabq.gov - December 2004 - City of Albuquerque www.cabq.gov Celebrates 10 Years Online Born: December 16, 1994, 1:55 pm Size: 19 bytes (but by the end of... [read all]

QOTD

12/17/04 - New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan "Let Me Off The Plane, I Gotta Blog!"... [read all]

Dick

12/16/04 - THURSDAY, 16 DECEMBER, 2004 Philip K. Dick said, "Insanity is sometimes an appropriate response to reality." ... He thought he saw a face in the sky. He wrote, "It was... [read all]

Thank You, Bill Moyers

12/14/04 - SierraActivist.org "One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the... [read all]

Uncle Samta

12/12/04 - Radko, Christopher: Grand Patriot Christmas Ornament Proudly waving Old Glory, Santa carries his sack full of presents . . . hopefully best-selling conservative books! hedgeblog No goddammit, Santa Claus is... [read all]

Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States

12/10/04 - Poems by Ted Kooser After Years Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face of a glacier slid into the sea. An... [read all]

Good for Whom, Westside?

12/09/04 - ABQjournal: Ice Shift Doug Frank, owner of the Scorpions, stands at the proposed site of a $42 million multipurpose event center that could be the home of the professional hockey... [read all]

mjhinton.myphotoalbum.com

12/05/04 - I'm playing with a different online photo service. This one was harder to work with than flickr.com, but they give you an elaborate editor. Uploading didn't work nearly as slickly... [read all]

Free Online Postcards

12/04/04 - As a part of celebrating my soul, I've added some more photos as postcards. mjh Edgewiseblog Postcards Here are two other sites with free online postcards: City of Albuquerque: Send... [read all]

Occupied Territory

12/04/04 - ABQjournal: N.M.'s Terror Townphoto by Greg Sorber/Journal No, it's not Iraq. Rather it's a SWAT team of Doña Ana County sheriff's deputies and Alamogordo Department of Public Safety officers leaving... [read all]

WHAT FLAG IS THAT?

12/03/04 - New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan That flag photo accompanying today's lead piece may not look familiar, but it was in our state's early days. From 1912 to 1925 it... [read all]

Remember: this is satire

12/02/04 - The Onion | Republicans Call For Privatization Of Next Election Citing the "extreme inefficiency" of this month's U.S. presidential election, key Republicans called for future elections to be conducted by... [read all]

The "Bush Court," as the Supreme Court was known after 2005

12/02/04 - City Pages: Obituaries Former President George W. Bush Dead at 72 by Greil Marcus Policy Review, October 5, 2018--George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, died today... [read all]

ToDo: Schedule Soul Celebration Day for sometime this week. (updated)

12/02/04 - Free Will Astrology : Taurus Horoscope Your soul is the best friend you keep forgetting you have. It's closer than your breath and older than death. It dreams like a... [read all]

Verifiable Results

12/02/04 - Letter:Moore calls on liberals to protest inauguration - Daily Lobo - Opinion I want to let my congressman know I don't want them wasting another dime of taxpayer money on... [read all]

Thank you, Miss Rosa!

12/01/04 - Today's Headlines ON THIS DAY On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defied the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a... [read all]

blog is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2004

12/01/04 - Merriam-Webster Online Based on online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was Blog - noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online... [read all]

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November 2004 (31 entries)

Happy Birthday, Mark Twain!

11/30/04 - The Writer's Almanac - NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 4, 2004 "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." -- Samuel Clemens... [read all]

Left Undone, Part 4, Cogitus Interuptus

11/28/04 - You're wondering how the Christian Republic of America came to invade Europe. It began with the infidels who infiltrated Europe just as the socialists and communists before them. His Truth:... [read all]

Sandias with snow

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Two Thanksgivings

11/26/04 - The Writer's Almanac The American Thanksgiving tradition originated with the Pilgrims. As early as 1621, the Puritan colonists of Plymouth, Massachusetts set aside a day of thanks for a bountiful... [read all]

THEY DON'T REMEMBER

11/25/04 - "The swashbuckling youth of the hard-right don't remember Rather on the frontlines in Vietnam aggressively reporting a war that would bring down a Dem President. They don't remember Chicago 68'... [read all]

Today I Am Two

11/24/04 - Sometimes I feel like I've been blogging my whole life. I have been writing letters to the editor, letters to friends, and in journals for much of my life. But... [read all]

About This Blog

11/23/04 - This is my main day-to-day blog. Some opinions, some links, some fiction, some poetry. If you would like more information, keep reading....... [read all]

Writing Software, that is, software that writes

11/22/04 - Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite! By DANIEL AKST Consider the beginning of a short story dealing with the theme of betrayal: "Dave Striver loved the university - its ivy-covered... [read all]

Left Undone, Part 3

11/21/04 - And so, as you might guess from my previous message, we haven't had an election in a long time. Even before the Vote Delivery System was completed, only Believers were... [read all]

Two More Compassionates

11/20/04 - alibi . november 18 - 24, 2004 This election was fun! ... One of the best things I heard was it's better to be right than win. Of course, being... [read all]

Red and Blue Don't Cover It

11/20/04 - MassINC - Beyond Red and Blue - Ten Regions Index Detailed Descriptions of Each Region • Northeast Corridor • Southern Lowlands • Upper Coasts • The Farm Belt • Great... [read all]

Dimdahl: 'a cantankerous old man with no credibility'

11/19/04 - ABQjournal: Dendahl's Ramblings Badly Written, Poorly Researched By Angela Wandinger-Ness, Biology Professor There are many things to take issue with in John Dendahl's commentary, "Bush is the Man with a... [read all]

Welcome www.aclu-nm-blog.org

11/18/04 - I have set up a blog for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico:ACLU-New Mexico Weblog. It is part of my work as the webmaster for ACLU-NM: American Civil... [read all]

All (er, half) Is Forgiven

11/18/04 - From cko, Apologies Accepted - the world's answer to sorryeverybody.com, which is a response to Sorry Everybody from MR.... [read all]

Left Undone, Part 2

11/14/04 - I hope you received my earlier message. There is some debate (in secret, of course) about how the United States of America became the Christian Republic of America. Some look... [read all]

'A Christian government can't lie'

11/10/04 - Letter:Election results reflect poorly on United States by Joachim L. Oberst Christian fundamentalism dogmatically transformed a religion of liberation into a religion of fear and hatred and thus created a... [read all]

Aftershocks

11/10/04 - Don't let anyone conservative see these links. That would be like smacking a beehive with a stick! mjh (didn't know I was) unamerican Sorry Everybody [Thanks, MR - ♥ ♥... [read all]

Out of Many, None

11/10/04 - E pluribus unum It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the... [read all]

Whining Winners

11/08/04 - NewMexiKen: Another point of view I am a libertarian with strong fiscal conservative beliefs. There are a lot of us in the Republican party. They used to call us Rockefeller... [read all]

Left Undone

11/07/04 - The Internet is so vast it now reaches across time. Here is a message from 2010: At the time, I was surprised they rounded up the Catholics. I knew they... [read all]

Heard on the street

11/06/04 - What pisses me off is my fellow Catholics. Kerry doesn't approve of abortions -- neither do I -- he just wants to protect a woman's right to choose. Catholics turning... [read all]

Red, Blue and Purple States and Counties

11/06/04 - Blended Results By State Purple-USA.jpg (JPEG Image, 616x483 pixels) By County Election 2004 Results Using County-by-County election return data from USA Today together with County boundary data from the US... [read all]

Pundits and Pollsters Are Losers -- Or Should Be

11/06/04 - Daily Howler: Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! We think it's time for crying cons to say who belittles their religion BEWARE EXPLANATION: We humans reason very poorly, to... [read all]

Greetings from a Compassionate Conservatve

11/05/04 - Please express my heartfelt thanks to Michael Moore for helping re-elect President Bush. LS Fort Worth, TX Voting for Bush because of Michael Moore is like voting for Kerry because... [read all]

Looking on the Bright Side

11/04/04 - Column:Bush term will shift U.S. left By Dustin Habermann Kerry is as capitalist and authoritarian as any American president in the last 50 years despite Republican claims of his liberalness.... [read all]

Everybody Knows Nihilists Vote Libertarian

11/04/04 - Albuquerque Tribune Online Trippin' on their way toward Utopia, by Jeffry Gardner [Liberals] revel in the knowledge that their youthful incivility and lawlessness has today become an accepted practice of... [read all]

Vlad Dimdahl

11/04/04 - ABQjournal: Rough and Tumble of Politics Now Spawns Hatred By John Dendahl, For the Journal The surprise now is the pure hatred Bush's opponents have mobilized, beginning at the conclusion... [read all]

The Christian Republic of America

11/03/04 - I remember when Tricky Dick Nixon won re-election using fear to defeat liberals. This is worse because we were much closer to winning and now we're still going to endure... [read all]

Election Day Turnout

11/02/04 - Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide Up to 121 million people will vote, compared with 105 million in 2000, according to Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American... [read all]

God Speaks

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Journal Endorsement

11/01/04 - Re-Elect George Bush ABQjournal Opinion While the record is mixed, the recommendation, ultimately, is to re-elect George W. Bush, aside from the mistakes -- one of which is great reluctance... [read all]

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October 2004 (32 entries)

Dark Sky Appreciation Night on Wednesday, 10/27/04

10/24/04 - Star Search New Mexico is observing Dark Sky Appreciation Night on Wednesday, 10/27/04. And this year, the event coincides with prime viewing conditions -- a total lunar eclipse beginning around... [read all]

forensic photography

10/24/04 - Did I ever tell you about my dip into forensic photography? I was at the upper cliff dwelling at Tonto Nat'l Monument last year with a ranger when a helicopter... [read all]

Flu Shots - Republicans First

10/22/04 - You've seen the lists showing who served in the military and who has not (in summary, Democrats have overwhelmingly served and Republicans have avoided service). I wonder if a similar... [read all]

Tune Change

10/22/04 - A few years ago, during battles over campaign finance reform, Republicans made an amazing argument: limits violate freedom of speech. Republicans literally said money is free speech and limits denied... [read all]

Nasty politics?

10/22/04 - Nasty politics? Puhleez! Get a historic grip. | csmonitor.com By William Schambra US politics is exasperating - always has been. But through the calumny and distortion, we've selected decent, if... [read all]

Gathering Leaves by Robert Frost

10/21/04 - The Writer's Almanac - OCTOBER 18 - 24, 2004 Gathering Leaves by Robert Frost Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as... [read all]

Latest Pix

10/20/04 - Flickr: Photos from mjhinton... [read all]

A Man of Science

10/20/04 - Four out of five Nobel Laureates agree: John Fleck's is an intellectual sea that raises all boats, even deep in the desert. And these aren't just Literature and Peace prize... [read all]

Left and Right Agree the Media is One or the Other

10/19/04 - Week in Review > The Public Editor: Political Bias at The Times? Two Counterarguments." href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/weekinreview/17bott.html?pagewanted=all&position=">The New York Times > Week in Review > The Public Editor: Political Bias at... [read all]

Perceptions of Partisan Bias Seen as Growing, Especially by Democrats

10/19/04 - Summary of F