Joe Lieberman Takes It In The Shorts

Sorry for the iconoflatulence (a term coined by my high school buddy Verde, who I think should retire to a life as a Northern Neck writer. Anyone who can come up with such a term should be writing.) But as you no doubt by now know, I can’t help myself.
I must admit I am taking [...]

I Think Hugo Chavez It Exactly Right

“After almost 200 years, we can say that the United States was designed to fill the entire world with poverty as if in the name of freedom,” he said according to Interfax.
“The United States’ empire is the greatest threat which exists in the world today. This is a senseless, blind and dumb giant, which does [...]

Villahermosa

Tonight I am in Villahermosa, with one days drive left to Merida. I’m pretty sure I will never return to this city. This afternoon I paid my first ever bride in the time I’ve been in Mexico.
Driving around the city looking for a place to stay for the night I pulled into a [...]

July 20th

Tonight I am staying in the El Castillo (which looks like a castle) another drive in hotel with private garages, though this one just has a curtain for a door. The room is quite plush and very dark. There is not enough light in the room for me to type on my laptop, [...]

Back in Mexico

I am back in Mexico, having tracked down a customs broker and successfully entered the country with a truck load of household goods.
I am feeling quite relieved to back in Mexico and to have crossed the border with my household goods with no problems. I now have no property or possessions, other than [...]

July 18

I arrived in Brownsville at 6:00 this evening and am settled in to a room at the Red Roof Inn with a high speed LAN connection. Tomorrow I go looking for a customs broker. One of the brokers with whom I’ve been communicating informed me today that her Mexican broker is no longer doing “menaje [...]

July 17

I am staying tonight in Fort Stockton, Texas, having driven the almost 800 miles from Flagstaff and enjoying the morning rush hour in Phoenix with lot of stop and go and the smooth evening rush hour in El Paso. I-10 in Texas is a far better roadway than it is in Arizona or New Mexico [...]

July 16

Tonight I am spending in Flagstaff, AZ, in a Motel 6 scabbing off the Ramada’s wireless network. I am amazed at how often one can find an unsecured wireless network through which to access the internet. At one of my stops on the way North I tapped into a wireless network named “Brad [...]

On The Road Again

I left Elma this morning after a great six day visit. I was able to spend a good bit of time and share lots of laughs with Long Time Harborite, my neighbor and very good friend of 30 years; visit with a few other Elma folks I wanted to see; ate and/or drank [...]

My Pickup

I received a request for a photo of my little pickup.

Welcome ToThe Police State

Isn’t the act of people reporting to authorities the activities of their neighbor and friends just the sort of thing for which we of the USA regularly criticize totalitarian governments. So here we have FBI agents telling Muslims living legally in the USA that they will be deported if they don’t becomes snitches. [...]

The Columbia River Is a Sewer

The Seattle Times has a very good report of toxic pollution of the Columbia River.Columbia River toxins moving up food chain By Craig WelchSeattle Times staff reporter
VANCOUVER, Wash. — First were the crayfish near Bonneville Dam, so loaded with toxins that scientists wondered how they could still be alive.
Then researchers learned Columbia [...]

Israeli Hypocrisy

Today while driving through Utah and listening to NPR news I heard a spokesman for the Israeli foreign relations ministry refer to Hamas as a “terrorist organization” that has become the Palestinian Authority ruling party.
So history repeats itself. Israelis who committed terrorist acts against the British, who controlled Palestine after WW II, later became [...]

July Fifth

I grabbed a cup of coffee from the OXXO store across from the Dolores Hotel and left Aldama about 7:30, heading North on Federal highway 180, which I have been following off and on from Merida, toward the border crossing at Matamoros and Brownsville.
The roads were excellent all day so I was able to travel [...]

My July Fourth

There are a number of Marimba bands performing on the streets of Xalapa. The percussionist in this particular band was quite adept at extracting donations from those passing by.
After thoroughly enjoying 4 days in Xalapa I left about 6:30 the morning of July 4. In keeping with my preferences, I opted for the secondary roads [...]

Bill Bennett Smack Down

Apparently that self-important, imperious gasbag Bill Bennett has been going around avering that reorters and editors who report classified information sshould be jailed. The Washington Post’s Dan Priest, on Sunday’s Meet the Press, reportedly, pointed out to the gasbag, who has admitted to a gambling problem, that publishing classified information, like casino gambling, is not [...]

Xalapa Sunday in the Park

Xalapa

I am in Xalapa, the capitol of the state of Veracruz, where I arrived yesterday about noon. Xalapa, called the garden city as it is lush with vegetation, lies in the hills about 60 miles West of the city of Veracruz.
It’s elevation of about 3,500 feet ensures a more temperate climate, generally about 15 degrees [...]

More Premediatd Atrocity In Iraq

Premeditated rape and burning of the body by USA troops.