Machination.org

It has been hard to write.
Many drafts with not just incomplete thoughts, but incomplete sentences, sit neglected in the queue right now.
In just this past week, I’ve been paying attention to Eliot Spitzer’s resignation from the office of governor in my home state; the security culture here in Washington as more CCTVs go up, as [...]

The only thoughts I can finish these days seem to be belated ones. Here I am slightly expanding on a “tweet” of mine in reaction to the news of arch-conservative William F. Buckley passing away.
Mostly fond and polite remembrances were aired across the media.
But in an often included common clip, which I heard it on [...]

Catholic anti-war demonstrators marched on the White House today, setting off at noon from St. Matthew’s Cathedral. Today’s action was part of their observation of Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent and a tradition with a theme of repentence.

A flyer being handed out quoted Pope Benedict XVI as saying “Christ needs apostles ready to [...]

Harper’s Washington Editor, Ken Silverstein, makes it a point to link flashpoints in human rights and foreign conflicts around the world to what is happens in Washington. He goes beyond the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and general Middle East issues where the US has made itself the chief broker, and he delves into [...]

On ABC News tonight, a report on the Republican field of candidates for President quoted a Texas diner goer as not seeing “a clear leader.”

Nothing else was shown of what this individual said, so perhaps he had a more nuanced view. But I wonder why people say things like that and I wonder why the [...]