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It appears that the NSA wiretapping is somewhat broader in scope than even I had been led to believe. A database is being compiled of every single phone call — and I can only assume every single e-mail — that… Continue Reading →

The median home price in California is over half a million dollars for a single-family home. In the high desert, where The Wife and I are going, prices are still below the median, but not by much. How I could… Continue Reading →

I’m just sayin’. Seriously, though, get better soon, Keef.

It has been suggested to me elsewhere that I would reap good karma if, instead of writing “whiny, homesick, highbrow haikus,” I provided advice for the hundreds of Californians who are moving or are about to move to Tennessee as… Continue Reading →

Thursday, I got something like this: I should have been heeding the professor’s advice:

Tomorrow, President Bush will likely announce that General Michael V. Hayden will replace Porter Goss as head of the C.I.A. This has been controversial, particularly amongst Republicans, who fear that the nomination will effectively subordinate the C.I.A. to the Pentagon.… Continue Reading →

After our RET meeting today, The Wife and another member opted out of going to lunch with the other members of RET — not that she didn’t want to hang out, she just didn’t want to eat Thai food. So… Continue Reading →

Tennessee is nice But very provincial, too. So we’re going home. It’s not paradise But the place where we belong Is in California. To be near our friends Access to wine and produce And all the culture. I can practice… Continue Reading →

Yesterday in Atlanta before a mostly friendly audience, Ray McGovern, a retired 27-year veteran CIA analyst, asked Secretary Donald Rumsfeld some tough questions in a recent news conference. You can watch the video here, and this is is my best… Continue Reading →

One of my heroes is Sandra Day O’Connor. She’s an easy figure to respect for being a trailblazer in the legal profession and a powerful role model. She created a practical, balanced, non-doctrinaire school of jurisprudence, criticized by some as… Continue Reading →