Author: Rick Klau

George W. Bush covers U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday. Wow. (Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.)

46% of Illinois Leader voters say Zell Miller. I’d say Zell and the Leader deserve each other.

Back in April I wrote about Rosemary Quigley, a good friend of mine from high school who suffered from cystic fibrosis. I had stumbled upon her Slate diary, in which she recounted her double lung transplant earlier this year. Two days ago, I happened to be looking through my referral logs (the server report that…

I recently bought the Jabra BT250 Bluetooth headset from Amazon; it’s a superb wireless headset designed for your Bluetooth-enabled cellphone. Last weekend, we finally made our pilgrimage to the first Fry’s in the midwest (it’s in Downers Grove). I picked up a D-Link DBT-120 USB Bluetooth Adapter for my Thinkpad, brought it home, plugged it…

Sometime today or tomorrow, the 1,000th American will die in Iraq since the beginning of the war. Reflecting on this sad milestone, I thought back to a report I remembered hearing on NPR last March about casualties. On the eve of our invasion of Iraq, NPR reporters asked people on the street in various cities…

Buzz Bruggeman: “Next time you are in a convertible get it up to 80 and stick your head above the windshield and you will get a little hint of what’s going on outside.” Glad you’re OK, buddy. Talked with my grandparents on Friday before Frances made land-fall, they sounded spooked. They were getting ready to…

Robert Baren: “I still like going on vacation to places you need a vaction to recover from.”

For me, one quote that hasn’t been widely reported on is really the key to George Bush’s speech last night: Anyone who wants more details on my agenda can find them online. The web address is not very imaginative, but it’s easy to remember: GeorgeWBush.com. And that’s when it clicked for me: George Bush’s plan…

No story yet, just this “breaking news” item: Former President Bill Clinton was in New York-Presbyterian Hospital today undergoing tests for chest discomfort, sources tell CNN. Clinton, 58, has been in good health with no known history of heart problems. Details soon. Update: He apparently needs heart bypass surgery. Reuters is reporting it will be…

Whoa. That last post published in about 1/10th the time it took to publish old posts. And that’s not even with the dynamic publishing abilities. Nice.