Even more so as of late.

Yes, GM and Chrysler have done some Less-Than-Smart things. But their down turns have been pretty much on par with all the other auto manufacturers out there.

I listened to a NPR story this morning about Fort Hunt, a secret military base where Nazi prisoners of war were interrogated during World War Two.

Researching it a bit more I found an article in the Washington Post last year covering a meeting of some of the veterans of P. O. Box 1142 (what Fort Hunt was referred to while it was operating).

These veterans decried our country's current stance on interrogation, both on moral grounds and on grounds that it is just not as effective.

This was a War that was orders of magnitude much more critical and bloody than our current "war on terror" and we composed ourselves much better, in this respect, then than we are now.

The internet shows us that we are not so special...

This copy of Microsoft Windows XP is not genuine - Want to bypass and remove this warning by disabling WGATray.exe?

Windows XP Pirates have again found workaround methods to bypass the new Microsoft Anti-Piracy effort - Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications that notifies you through annonying pop-up messages if your copy of Windows is not genuine.

To Karl, a 38-year-old former cabdriver hoping for a career in real estate sales, the help-wanted ad radiated hope.

The ad sought "correspondence managers" willing to receive parcels at home, then reship them overseas. The pay: $24 a package.

Karl applied at kflogistics.biz, a fraudulent Web site imitating a legitimate site.

He quickly received an e-mail notifying him he had landed the job, followed by instructions on how to take receipt of digital cameras and laptop computers, affix new labels and "reship" the items overseas. Easy enough.

I'm playing around with the format of the album posting, so give me any feedback that pops into your minds.

Win or Lose, Kerry Voters Are Smarter Than Bush Voters

NEW YORK--Democratic hand wringing is surrealy out of hand. No one is criticizing the morally incongruous Kerry for running against a war he voted for while insisting that he would have voted for it again. Party leaders have yet to consider that NAFTA, signed into law under Clinton, may have cost them high-unemployment Ohio. No, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, darling of the "centrist" Democratic Leadership Council, blames something else: the perception "in the heartland" that Democrats are a "bicoastal cultural elite that is condescending at best and contemptuous at worst to the values that Americans hold in their daily lives."