Shamelessly ripped off from Aces Full of Links: here's a way to make a soldier's day, send him or her a book or a DVD! Books For Soldiers is a soldier support site that ships books, DVDs and supplies to deployed soliders and soldiers in VA hospitals...   more »

As an experiment, I've modified the layout of Unbecoming Levity to use collapsible sidebars. This allows me to use more screen real estate for the actual content of the articles. What do you think of this look? Better? Worse? Please share your comments...   more »

When placing the order for our supply of soda at work here, my distributor said "Wanna try 'Coke 2'?" Remembering the rave review given it by my friend James on Aces Full of Links, I said "Sure, why not? Include a case of Coke 2 and we'll try it out." Well the C2 (I'm still not comfortable with how much that reminds me of C4) sat for days and only one can of it disappeared. I'm not much of a Coke drinker but I figured today I would try it out...   more »

My license plate collection continues to grow, a little bit each day. I'm up to 22 plates and counting. I've added a photo album to this blog for license plates to show my progress over time. Hanging the plates has been a fun project that Lynnea and I can do together. She tells me where each one goes and then I hang it, while she helps by handing me the tools as I need them...   more »

I've never had so much trouble getting into a movie as I did with Farenheit 9/11.  Everybody seems to be interested in this film.  Good...

Image from the San Francisco Chronicle

The Washington Post details how Mr. Cheney lived up to his nickname "Dick" last week when he told democratic senator Leahy of Vermont to fuck himself after the senator asked some pointed questions about Cheney's connections to Halliburton, the company which has won many major contracts in the rebuilding of Iraq following the war of which Cheney was such an ardent supporter. Got to hand it to Dick, he's got a way with words...   more »

When I got home from Farenheit 9/11 last night it was very late and I just couldn't keep my eyes open long enough to write a review. Especially since the next morning I needed to see my dear friend Brian off on his new adventure--a job in San Diego. (Goodbye Brian... I'll miss you. ) At the party a number of people asked what I thought of the film, and I did promise to review it, so here goes...   more »

Well the tickets for the 7:30 show of Farenheit 9/11 were sold out so I ended up seeing Shrek 2 with my family and will be going back to the cinema for the 10:25 PM showing of Moore's documentary. But I enjoyed Shrek 2, and if you liked the first Shrek, you probably will too...   more »

Yipee!  I'm going to see Moore's new film tonight!  Review to be posted later this evening...  stay tuned!

Gallup's latest poll shows that Cheney's pet war is now considered to be a mistake by a majority of Americans...   more »

Here are some news items I noticed today that kind of stuck with me...   more »

I admit it... I'm a collector. I've collected many different sorts of things throughout my life. The last thing I collected with great fervor was Magic: the Gathering trading cards. My collection of MTG is truly massive... weighing in at well over 30,000 cards and including several rare cards that are quite valuable. But I lost interest in MTG a few months back, and I've been waiting for the collecting bug to bite again... well, it bit...   more »