This isn’t really a travelogue but I think you folks might want to know that people out west are super, super high. Just really, really high. Very high. At the gas stations, in the kitchens, at the campsites. Very high.

The facility trying to rob my mother of her security deposit is Angel’s Quality Assisted Living in Rosedale, Maryland. The phone number is 443-413-0163. The proprietor is named April Chambers. She’s not answering the phone now but tomorrow she will be. Most of you have cell phones. Many of you are in Maryland yourselves. If you have the time or inclination, perhaps a quick call to April during regular business

Tests came back today on my mother: cancer is stage 4. She’ll do 3 days of chemo starting tomorrow, and depending on how that goes we’ll take it from there. Best-case scenario is a year; prognosis is 2-6 months if she can handle the chemo. Oh. And the assisted living facility that she’d been stuck in at $1500 per month w/ the lights out curfew at nine, sharing a room

And the reason is this: an omnibus budget bill that gives Obama 9 more months of control over the purse strings, with support of some Republican leaders. Who, let’s face it, are some of the very few people capable of consistently snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. At least, from the standpoint of those they putatively claim to represent. In their own minds, it’s all about political positioning and

The guardian: Colorado’s senior Democratic senator was reaching the climax of his stump speech when one of his party’s millionaire donors started to heckle him. Mark Udall had been looking confident, just moments earlier, when he climbed down the steps of his campaign bus and began addressing what should have been an audience of the party faithful. These were people who had given up their Sunday afternoon to knock on

This dude thought you should have to register to vote. Eric Holder might want to dig him up and have a little talk with him about his racism, poll taxing, and desire to see minorities disenfranchised. I’d dish out $100 to see it on pay-per-view. Happily.

Hello, all. First, let me say thank you to those of you who have contributed to an unannounced November fundraiser; I didn’t provide much bang for your buck over the last couple months, dealing as I’ve been with the and now my mother’s problems, both medical and financial. On the medical side, an MRI, taken after my mother was re-admitted to the hospital after not being able to put any