Archive for October, 2006
Autumn
Monday, October 30th, 2006Autumn has come to West-central Georgia. There’s a nice cool, dry crackle in the air and leaves are starting to gather for the big rake-off. Yesterday I carved a Jack-o-Lantern. My wife says it looks like me. When I was a kid I loved this time of year. Trick-or-treating meant there were only a few [...]
Enough Already With the Fake Webb Outrage, Hannity
Saturday, October 28th, 2006I began my adult political life as a Democrat. I cast my first vote in a presidential election at the age of eighteen. My vote went for John F. Kennedy. Over the years the radicalization of the Democratic party has driven me into the Republican fold, and I find myself transformed into a conservative Republican. [...]
Breaking the Ice
Monday, October 23rd, 2006I’m going to start this blog with the underlying assumption that no one is going to read it. This seems to be a safe assumption, given the relentless proliferation of these things. I call it “The Tommyblogger” after Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers, and because my first name is Tom. I am too modest to use [...]
