Archive for October, 2007

NaNoWriMo!

Friday, October 26th, 2007

That’s right. The guy who doesn’t write more than say, 2 or 3 times a month, total, has signed up to participate in NaNoWriMo, where I will commit to attempting to write about 100 pages of pure, unedited fiction in 30 days.

So, all you webcrawling google, msn, yahoo, and spam bots out there (which is by far my largest audience demographic), wish me luck!

For you few lovely humans who happen by here, click on the badge to the right over there to see my progress, starting November 1.

Letters to my Senators

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Senator Lott, (also sent to Senator Cochran)

The recent effort in the senate to block the RESTORE act and then compromise with the President regarding terms to be included in the new proposal, including immunity grants for telecommunications companies involved in the questionable eavesdropping practices authorized by the President, are nothing short of despicable.

With Congress and the FCC refusing to investigate this matter, the government has left the investigation of these questionable practices to citizen advocacy groups and the courts. An immunity grant would halt these efforts, and effectively remove any recourse the American people have in determining whether these questionable practices were indeed illegal, and if so, holding the parties responsible.

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