Honest Illusion

Jerome Corsi is a right-wing writer, known mainly for writing hatchet-job books about Democrats.  His Swift-Boater opus “Unfit for Command” was a important factor in John Kerry’s loss to GW Bush.  It was completely discredited too late.  His latest book tries to “prove” President Obama’s short-form birth certificate is a fake.  Since the book ...

Ok, after three technical articles in a week, it’s about time to branch out a bit, and talk a bit of politics. Over at AssociatedContent, which is apparently part of the “Yahoo! Contributor Network”, they seem to let just about any yahoo sign up as a columnist and have their articles published as part of the Yahoo! News feeds, just as if it ...

With the pending appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, someone pointed out that if she is approved, there will have been in 120 years, 111 Supreme Court Justices, of whom, only three were women and only two were African American, with all the rest being white men.   On the other hand:   In the past 80 years, The Academy of Motion Picture ...

Ok, in this selection we've got politians and Rev Billy. One or the other is not going to forgive me. Music first.  The Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir singing ''Not For Sale'' [YouTube:CD9x4IrnJgY]   Now the talking heads.  We start with two from Rep Pascrell. [YouTube:RykiTZ1nWY4] [YouTube:7K8nqh2eCns] Next, we toss in one by Rep ...

I volunteer for the Menendez Campaign.  He came by the this morning   And so was Rep. Pascrell: [YouTube:STAyEkLKYTo] (Update: I finally got the YouTube links working)

OK, I don't mean that in the sense “...if Bush is re-elected..” No, this goes deeper than the election..... Yesterday, I saw an “Washington Power Players“ Edition of Jeopardy (It may have been a re-run from earlier in the season).  The players were Tim Russert (Host of NBC's Meet the Press), Christie Todd-Whitman (Fmr ...

Not as many photos today, partial because what I did wasn't as photogenic, but mostly because, for the second time in three days, I let the battery on my camera run down. Since I got to bed later last night, I overslept and had to scramble to get into work at all. Normally I take a 9am train --- Thursday I missed the 10:30 train. Took a late ...

Lots'o'photos today.  Partial because I did a lot, and partial because one event lent itself to photographing everything.  As usually, images are at: http://gallery.honestillusion.com First off, I dragged myself into the City an hour & a half earlier than normal, because I wanted to join in on “The World's Longest Unemployment Line'' which ...

Being that I work in Midtown Manhattan (*) and am quite opposed to the crook currently in th White House, I felt the need to join in on the protests going on around town.   (*) Ok, I actually work in Gramercy Park, which is a bit south of Midtown, but basically, it's a mile from Madison Square Garden.  It's also right by Union Square, which is a ...

It's a Washington maxim, that if you want to bury a news story, release it after 6pm on a Friday, because no one watches the new over the weekend.  The August 6th 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing was released after 6PM on a Saturday of a Holiday weekend when few were even watching the Sunday morning talk show.   They really want to bury this ...