At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Crazy, huh? I registered this domain name back in September 2000 (when I was a freshman at GDub) and have been spouting nonsense ever since! I’m sure there will be many more years of that to come. Like, when I’m 80 years old I’ll be complaining about something, ya know? Someone should bake me a [...]

I would highly recommend watching Bill Moyer’s interview of Andrew J. Bacevich, the author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Bacevich is a graduate of West Point, retired Army colonel, and a Professor of International Relations at Boston University who speaks candidly of the problems facing our nation’s economy and security. [...]

This is from the August 2, 2008 edition of Frontera, a Tijuana/San Diego based Spanish-language newspaper. Recognize that photo at the bottom? Yeah, that is Ryan and I in front of Chernobyl’s infamous reactor four when we (along with Laura) toured the exclusion zone on July 4, 2007. The entire article is behind a paywall [...]

Garrison Keillor: California is another country. You wake up in the morning and New York is already on its first coffee, and the first scandal has broken in Washington, one more Republican crony caught with his hand in the honey pot. It all feels very far away. You wake up, your laptop is full of [...]

Although I’m not quite sure I’d like flip flops produced by AIG. They are based in New York, after all.

I think it’s fair to say that Pelosi has the best breakfast in our nation’s capital: As the presidential election looms, SAVEUR set out to discover what the newsmakers and news breakers in and near the Capital Beltway eat each morning. Here, politicians, government figures, and political journalists reveal their preferred early-hour fuel: NANCY PELOSI, [...]

This time, a hilarious skit on the Palin-Couric interview. “Every morning, when Alaskans wake up, one of the first things they do, is look outside to see if there are any Russians hanging around. And if there are, you gotta go up to them and ask, ‘What are you doing here?’ and if they can’t [...]

Yep, pretty damn scary. (Via boingboing.net)

Is John McCain playing some kind of sick joke on our country? Did any of his campaign aides actually, uh, talk to Sarah Palin before they selected her as his running mate? Here is the second part of Palin’s interview with Katie Couric. I gotta say, in terms of hilarity, this is the best one [...]

Let’s hope this stays fiction: (H/T EJ)