"So it's gonna be like that, is it? Retribution for unfavourable coverage is a chilling thing to contemplate," wrote Huffington Post media blogger Rachel Sklar.

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Just how precarious are American families' financial situations right now? In his new book, High Wire, Los Angeles Times economic correspondent Peter Gosselin traces 25 years of shifting economic risk from business and government onto the backs of working families.

When discussing healthcare plans, Gosselin says McCain is just repeating BushBoy's dream of privatization. He also expressed concern about how much Obama is actually going to do, since he has been very quiet about heathcare since he became The Presumptive. He holds out hope he will do something big and strong during the Fall campaigning.

Hope.... He did say that if voters just give their allegiance and votes to someone without demanding to know what that candidate will do, they're not likely to get much in return.

But then, I had break my Mother's heart tonight by telling her what the near future holds for her youngest child.  And having to deal with the reality of it all myself.

Why the he*l is it that no one (including anywhere I've looked in the progressive
blogosphere) has bothered to mention that horizons always recede, and that one never
reaches the horizon no matter how far toward it one travels?

Hmm?

So, when Bushie and McSame start talking about time horizons for withdrawing troops, they really mean "never".  That's what they call "Republican honesty".

Or, it's just a way of saying a Friedman unit, without being tied to that whole inconvenient idea that a Friedman unit is 6 months long....

Consequently, I surf off older and weaker tech like my PDA or palmbook rigged to my netsafe "dunebuggy" OS. The downside is that the WiFi on those relics is weak. The upside is that I discovered that some ghosts were helping me stay on the hammock for my power-loafing.

Here's what happened.

I got an opportunity to bid on a project that I REALLY REALLY want, however, I have to get everything in on a ridiculous deadline. A relative suggested yoking her (HS senior) son into indentured servitude as my intern and he can gain some cred to apply for work in the digital arts/media field that he wants to work in before going to college next year.

Also, I get to preserve SOME hammock time, so I got a laptop for him and cleared a bit of working area amid my clutter.

Well I discovered some new network icons on my wheezing hammock-friendly palmbook and additional bars to the WiFi signal I was -- ::cough:: -- borrowing off the hot-zone from neighbors' intersecting networks. This boost turned out to be from the indentured servants' laptop that I got for him, which is still in the box.

Barbarism...Authoritarian barbarism.

At 1:28 p.m. last Jan. 17, Baron "Scooter" Pikes was a healthy 21-year-old man. By 2:07 p.m., he was dead.

What happened in the 39 minutes in between--during which Pikes was handcuffed by local police and shocked nine times with a Taser device, while reportedly pleading for mercy--is now spawning fears of a political cover-up in this backwoods Louisiana lumber town infamous for backroom dealings.

Even more ominously, because Pikes was black and the officer who repeatedly Tasered him is white, racial tensions over the case are mounting in a place that's just 40 miles from Jena, La. Jena is the site of the racially explosive prosecution of six black teenagers charged with beating a white youth that last year triggered one of the largest American civil rights demonstrations in decades. And in a bizarre coincidence, Pikes turns out to have been a first cousin of Mychal Bell, the lead defendant in the Jena 6 case.