deadwood

An excellent commentary about how local news organization can cover those stories that won’t make the nightly news or the next edition of the deadwood edition.

Knowing how I feel about The Wire and Deadwood, do any of you who have seen The Shield recommend that I get into it? It keeps making people’s top lists.

Hope and Change ™ are coming and the reactionaries, long-suffering and bitter in their undeserved sense of entitlement, are none too happy about it.  Seems clearing out the deadwood in the White House is always a good idea in favor of the new guy with a fresh perspective but when it comes to a complacent newsroom we can’t change horses in midstream and need to side with lo

Sarcastro offers our Honorable Phil Governor a bit of advice on how to decide which state employees get his budget-cutting buyout:

The Commercial Appeal is spotlighting Left Wing Cracker in today’s Sunday edition.

I opened a little cottage out in the forest on the edge of Deadwood.  My cottage was a “Cheesebook”, which is apparently a speciality shop that lets books and sells cheese.   I guess it was kind of like a coffee house, except instead of bands there were novels and instead of coffee there was an outstanding variety of cheeses.

One of the scariest things about getting really sick is that you realise just how much you have to depend on other people. When I started getting really sick about two and a half years ago, I never imagined being so reliant on others for the basics. And now that I’ve got my big rheumatologist appointment on Monday, I guess I’m scared of what comes next.