This makes me very, very happy: For clues about who might be next to get a show on MSNBC, viewers need not have looked further than “Countdown” earlier this month. For eight nights beginning just before the Fourth of July, Rachel Maddow, the host of a program on Air America, the liberal talk-radio network, served as a substitute for the […]

I love the way the Obama campaign is going totally grassroots with their campaign. My wife and I have gone door-to-door to invite people to a house meeting and I ended up having meaningful and very interesting conversations with so many of them, even those people who don’t plan to vote for him. So many people are simply fed up […]

I started looking for downloads of music from the Rothbury right after we got back and I wasn’t disappointed. On bt.etree.org, I found BitTorrent feeds of the several bands that we were interested in, particularly Thievery Corporation *melts* (Don’t worry, Kaffee, if you’re reading this, I have burned the twenty songs they did on to two cds and they’re in […]

Up in the northern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula you can find some of the most awesome forests and rivers. The Au Sable river is one of them and it, along with the Manistee River are two of the nicest places in our fair state to canoe, trout fish and just chill. So of course an oil company, with assistance […]

We went to Rothbury! Check out my wife’s fantastic panoramic images and a coolio slide show HERE. I’m just sayin’…