tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75762612009-02-20T20:12:04.829-08:00All the muse that spits in print.Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1102568086585007752004-12-08T20:32:00.000-08:002004-12-08T21:19:10.990-08:00

Well, I finally put my mind to it and created my own website, complete with blog. I'd been meaning to do it for some time; I've never been totally satisfied with this weblog, and I wanted my own domain name (it's now www.deltafoxtrot.net). So my website is Delta Foxtrot and my weblog is Delta FoxBlog. Catchy, huh? Oh, when I say I haven't been happy here, it's not that this isn't a great deal,

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1090110070210460452004-07-17T17:15:00.000-07:002004-07-17T17:21:10.210-07:00

Now this could be really bad.  I'm so upset about this I can't really write about it at the moment; I'll be revisiting it in the future, however.   Sailing Toward a Storm in China [requires Times registration -- I think NY Times reg works]

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1090108293568822962004-07-17T16:42:00.000-07:002004-07-19T14:33:49.350-07:00

[I sent this to Daniel Okrent, Public Editor of the NYTimes, but of course it will never be printed there. It's too long for the public editorial forum, too, so I'll just print it here and if anyone ever wanders by maybe they'll read it. Oh, you might also want to check out Howard Nemerov's excellent rebuttal to Diane Feinstein's dumb knee-jerk anti-rights stance (she being one of the sponsors

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1090106925535143712004-07-17T16:24:00.000-07:002004-07-17T16:28:45.536-07:00

I'm always amazed when I see the avidity of Martha Stewart's supporters.  To me there are few things as unimportant as a centerpiece; most of my meals are eaten in front of the computer.  Then again,  I have no dining table and, since I'm basically rather slobbish and disorganized, all the flat surfaces in my house that could be used as tables tend to be covered in a thick layer of books, papers,

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1090106482358742182004-07-17T16:04:00.000-07:002004-08-31T10:46:41.466-07:00

Republicans are doing their damnedest to make the so-called “Family Marriage  Amendment,” and any other legislature they may (surely) trot out in the wake of the amendment's abject and utter failure, solely about protection of a traditional institution.  As George W. Bush stated from the bully pulpit in his weekly radio stump speech, Republicans simply want to “protect the most  fundamental

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089941282102489972004-07-15T17:56:00.000-07:002004-07-15T18:28:02.103-07:00

Go take the Slate's Red or Blue -- Which are You? quiz.  It's entertaining and educational.  (Thanks to AndrewSullivan.com)

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089756641323991312004-07-13T14:56:00.000-07:002004-07-13T16:05:45.256-07:00

Meet Niall Ferguson, celebrated intellectual Scottish historian, promoter of US world emperialism, and the perfect example of a really smart guy so wrongheaded that he gets a lot of people killed needlessly. Washington Monthly's Benjamin Wallace-Wells admirably deconstructs this -- I'm having a real difficulty choosing marginally neutral words here -- scholar and his ideas of global US

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089746884434354252004-07-13T12:28:00.000-07:002004-07-13T12:28:04.433-07:00

Another portrait of me by Daniel's ex-wife, Pat. (Used by permission)©2004, Pat F.

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089733056582392082004-07-13T08:37:00.000-07:002004-07-13T08:37:36.583-07:00

My son Junior practicing his acting. He's pretty much given up on a career in Hollywood, though; now he's studying astrophysics.©2004, Delta Foxtrot

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089733009688357652004-07-13T08:34:00.000-07:002004-08-31T11:00:14.896-07:00

Just so you don't miss my appeal for honest work...

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089732829225209762004-07-13T08:33:00.000-07:002004-07-13T08:29:34.616-07:00

Here I am again... I know you love looking at me!©2004, Delta Foxtrot

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089731611968397532004-07-13T08:03:00.000-07:002004-07-13T08:22:15.903-07:00

The most interesting and informative awards on the net are now out: Mother Jones magazine's Diddly Awards (as in, "Boy, that US congress, they don't do Diddly!"). Why are they so great? Here's the first paragraph of the article: With billions in Iraq construction contracts pending last year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) borrowed World War II-era language for an amendment that would

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089683710740360812004-07-12T18:17:00.000-07:002004-11-08T12:07:49.370-08:00

Just when did the incorporation of religious activism into political action become somehow “conservative”? I thought that the dilution of the rights of individuals was supposed to be some liberal mainstay, designed to lead all us dupes and ”useful idiots” down the road to communism (whether big-C or small-c), socialism, or at the very least the joint celebration of HonakKwanzaMas. As a

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089652214096388612004-07-12T10:03:00.000-07:002004-07-12T19:22:13.810-07:00

The Chicago Trib's Maureen Ryan on the boom in paid advertising for webloggers. Gee, I guess I'm too "long-winded and loquacious" to expect much. Oh, wait, she was talking about the ad landing pages -- maybe there's still hope (but I'm not holding my breath, never mind the length of my wind).

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089645550490903822004-07-12T08:15:00.000-07:002004-07-13T07:54:43.086-07:00

Here's your chance to be among the first to know... at least if recent statistics are any assurance. Do you think that the candidates' campaigns will take advantage of this analysis?

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089645480943208412004-07-12T08:12:00.000-07:002004-07-13T08:25:42.996-07:00

Here's a hilarious Flash® animation. In the greatest tradition of American political humor, it skewers both candidates equally -- don't expect anything "on issues." It's PG at worst, but watch the sound at work. At least, the first time. If this doesn't have the whole office dancing around your desk in glee, I don't know humor when I see it. (My other favorite on the JibJab site is the

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089592787590952912004-07-11T17:39:00.000-07:002004-07-11T17:40:58.833-07:00

A painting of me and my son, Junior Foxtrot -- I call this picture "pug sandwich" -- by Austin artist and my slave Daniel's ex-wife, Pat F. You can see her pictures of me and my friends at Taurus Kennels in Austin. (used by permission)©2004, Pat F.

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089572465362377782004-07-11T09:17:00.000-07:002004-07-11T18:34:14.836-07:00

[probably the first of many - Delta] In a previous post, called "Quotes," I wrongly called James Madison the second president of the US. He was, of course, the fourth, and his term of service in that capacity was 1809-1817. I also failed to add a link to the full text of his "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments." Those errors have been corrected. For those of you not in

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089504368839634472004-07-10T17:02:00.000-07:002004-07-10T17:52:28.263-07:00

Pursuant to the last post: Bev Harris and Jim March of Black Box Voting have filed a “Qui Tam,” or whistleblower, suit against Diebold Election Systems. Diebold is (apparently) the second-largest electronic voting machine manufacturer in the US; according to the Black Box press release, the lawsuit “seeks to recover funds for the state of California... As part of the Qui Tam action, a bounty

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089502201703915432004-07-10T16:08:00.000-07:002004-07-10T16:34:04.540-07:00

[I received the following press release in email today (while I was out hauling trash to the curb for big trash day -- which I finished, thanks for caring). For those of you as concerned about the potential problems with electronic, so-called "black box," voting machines as I am, this might be of interest, especially if you'll be in Austin this Tuesday. By the way, I've been looking for

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089489891482161972004-07-10T13:04:00.000-07:002004-07-11T17:42:30.823-07:00

Delta's slave, Daniel, with kayak in Micco, Florida©2004, Delta Foxtrot

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089489363642157612004-07-10T12:56:00.000-07:002004-07-10T12:56:03.643-07:00

Fort Lauderdale street scene©2004, Delta Foxtrot

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089488877722641912004-07-10T12:26:00.000-07:002004-07-10T12:49:08.653-07:00

Some great editorial and commentary pieces out there in the press this Saturday. I heartily suggest reading, for instance, NYTimes Review of Books editor Alan Wolfe's “The New Pamphleteers,” which compares the current crop of polemic disguised as political analysis, in form and spirit if not in style and content, with the Revolutionary-period pamphleteers -- whose names we all know but I'll

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089431699512599002004-07-09T20:32:00.000-07:002004-07-09T22:24:12.286-07:00

I live in a neighborhood in far South Austin, near the city limits. It's very much "old Austin," with lots of mixed housing (no apartment complexes), a million trees, and even some areas of undeveloped forest. The neighborhood is a total mix of people, although most by far are families and older, live-and-let-live folks -- friendly, jovial, and for the most part not at all concerned about what

Delta Foxtrotnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576261.post-1089413714808443822004-07-09T15:35:00.000-07:002004-07-09T15:55:14.806-07:00

Well, it's not new information, but it's always interesting speculation. Once again, the Pentagon has said that Bush's Texas Air Guard records were destroyed; this time in response to a freedom of information act request by the Associated Press. I recall hearing James Moore, author of Bush's War For Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People and co-author of Bush's Brain, speak a while

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