I live north of Peoria and have recently begun driving down Rt. 40 (that’s Knoxville for you townies) to get to work. Today I was a gast of what I saw. A man who was trying his darndest to save money and protect the environment was pedaling his bike southbound near the T-intersection with Pioneer [...]

Today is my Tuesday. #
YouTube founders win a Webby. Once again, I’ve been rooked. #
When is the last time you had a TV dinner that actually tasted good? I did. Some honey roasted beef dish (I think) from Boston Market #
3 kinds of callers you don’t want to hear from when you work tech support: [...]

Beautiful day for a drive. Too bad the drive was to work. #
I hate the Cardinals. I mean HATE. #
http://techchickblog.com/ is both cool and hot at the same time! #
“View to a Kill” is NOT, I repeat NOT, the best Bond movie. Anyone thinking it is, is insane. #

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In 2004, while John Edwards was campaigning for the presidency and then the vice presidency, he talked at length of a problem he called “The Two Americas”. He tried to paint a picture of a country where only the rich got richer and the poor got poorer (even though he was admittedly the son of [...]

Guess who’s coming to town? The Pantagraph says George W is. More details are supposed to be released later today, but one of his stops will be at Cat.

I think most of Peoria is covered by Insight Cable, but for the surrounding area this Mediacom vs Sinclair Broadcasting is becoming quite an issue. The cable company has had to stop carrying Sinclair’s WYZZ in the area due to a contract disagreement.
It seems that Sinclair wants more money from Mediacom to carry its channels. [...]

At a recent inauguration/re-election ceremoney Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (and father of Attorney General Lisa Madigan) announced his interest in moving the date of the Illinois primary election.
The reason?
If Senator Obama decides to run for the presidency in ’08 he would
benefit from an early primary victory in his home state. Madigans also added that this change would probably be only temporary, with plans to move the primary election back [...]

As we have argued here before, there has been some talk over the last few years about bringing back the draft. The argument is usually that when elected officials are faced with the possibility of their own children going to war they would be less likely to support military action like that in Iraq.
I [...]

Now that Republicans have been nearly eliminated from the decision making process in Congress, the President is set to release his new Iraq War plan. According to the Democratic leadership they have no plans on blocking funding to the troops, but are exploring other possibilities that would allow them to stop this new proposal.
I don’t [...]