First off, my friends Abi and Martin Sutherland from Sunpig are again proud parents! All the wonderful details of what is sure to be a great new life can be found here. As if that weren’t reason enough to celebrate, my surgeon told me today that I will live!

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Well, in about another twelve hours, I’ll be lying on an operating table. Hopefully, the surgeons will be removing any remnants of melanoma remaining in me.

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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, about the changes wrought in my life by being diagnosed with malignant melanoma, a potentially-deadly skin cancer. However, writing about it has turned out to be less easy. Perhaps this is because when I write, I really have to do some thinking, whereas when I’m “just thinking about it”, I can easily flit off in my mind to something else when I don’t want to think too much about “it.”

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Well, well, oil well… Two Halliburton officials accepted up to $6 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti company that was awarded contracts to supply U.S. troops in Iraq, according to a newspaper report. So says CBSNews Online in a story that both CBS and CNN Money say is “the first firm indication of corruption involving […]

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So CalPundit today had a fascinating story about Republican congressional leaders hacking into the computers of their Democratic counterparts.

As I was reading it, I heard a startling noise behind me. Someone was cackling and exclaiming, “I am not a crook!”

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I still haven’t been able to make it all the way through Bush’s so-called State of the Union address. I may have to switch over to reading the transcript; watching him deliver it in person, with the smirks (or are they bemused looks, as he thinks, “Hehehe…they’re eatin’ it up”) is too hard and I […]

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Lessig — who was the special master for the Microsoft antitrust case — writes regarding Cato’s misrepresentations of the Dean campaign relating to (among other things) the Internet. It’s worth a read. Note, particularly, what he says about who really wants to control the Internet (and how).

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This pretty much speaks for itself…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush may seek an additional $40 billion or more for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year — on top of the $400-billion military budget he will send to Congress next month, congressional sources and budget analysts said on Wednesday. But Bush is unlikely to send the request to Congress until after the November presidential election to minimize any political damage, the sources said.

Read the rest of the story at Findlaw.

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The judge in the Michael Jackson case has issued gag orders on all involved. Well, almost all.

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MoveOn.org recently sponsored a political advertising contest called “Bush in 30 Seconds”. And the winners have been announced.

The ads themselves would be funny, if they weren’t so veridical.

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