Living the Liminal

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For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. [...]

First up, the depressing news that America, land of the free and home of the brave, ranks 36th among nations for the freedom of the press:
The United States is ranked 36th in the world in terms of press freedom, up from 48th last year, according to a report released Wednesday by Reporters Sans Frontieres.
The US [...]

I have a pet peeve. Ok, I have a number of pet peeves, but I want to share this one in particular with you today. I want actors to stop looking at each other all the damned time.
Bear with me here, it will make sense in a jiffy.
Take a moment to think back to your [...]

I waste time. Lots of it. I waste time by surfing the web, making sure I am caught up on the latest status updates on Facebook, reading blogs, watching shows on Hulu, tinkering with my computer’s desktop and settings. If there’s a television around, I am good at wasting time by channel surfing and watching [...]

A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words that is presented on Norm Sherman’s fiction podcast, The Drabblecast. Yours truly will be having his drabble, “Allergies,” published on the podcast this week. If you like listening to stories, especially stories of the weirder variety, this is a podcast you should be subscribed to, regardless [...]

[Cross-posted on Daily Kos]
I was sitting in a Baptist church in Maryland when I saw a spider on the pew in front of me. I was maybe 10, maybe 11 at the time and I remember thinking to myself, “if this was a poisonous spider and it bit me right now and I died, I’d [...]

I’m taking a break from the blog for the month of October. I don’t have a particularly compelling reason, it was just something that came to me when I was contemplating my next entry. Considering I’m approaching 500 entries and have been maintaining LtL, with a decent amount of regularity for a personal blog, for [...]