While catching lunch today at a local sub joint (awesome subs, check it: Firehouse Subs, and may I suggest the Engine Company on wheat, no mustard? :-) ), I was subjected to Fox News. It was playing on the only TV in the place, and, like a train wreck, I couldn't stop myself from watching. A poll flashed on the screen, posing the question: "Should these past CIA interrogations be investigated?" This, of course, in light of the new allegations of tactics including the usage of guns, electric drills, mock executions, and even threats of killing the detainee's children or... Continue reading

I woke up this morning with that amazing, butterflies-in-the-stomach, anticipatory excitement that can only be associated with love. I dared not open my eyes for fear of that feeling fleeing, and, when I did, the sinking realization that it had all been a dream. But this is my reality, and it is a pretty fucking good one. I love the one in my life now, but the dream of the one that had been was unexpected... and, quite frankly, unwelcome. Why, when I finally see a true path in my life, and really trust and believe that I have found... Continue reading