http://omnium.blogdrive.com/ Ethel the Frog Tue, 22 May 2007 21:30:00 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2007. Writing Humor Movies http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/468.html Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:06:03 GMT This blog is history. I am history. I suspected I wouldn't be able to survive a second Bush administration and I was, sadly, right. You will not be hearing from me again. Thanks for all the attention, commentary, criticism, and feedback. It was nice knowing you all. Don't give up. If you quit, they win. http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=468 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/466.html Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:28:16 GMT The Rebellion is history. Gone. I didn't see any reason to maintain it when I can't post. Ethel will remain because it's free and I now belong to an internet cafe with no time limits, which means I'll be able to write a post from time to time. Maybe. Don't know when. Next week? At least the novel is progressing nicely - 200 pgs since Christmas. Being disconnected is good for something, at least. Stay tuned. Weekly missives are not impossible. If you care.... PS I didn't put up that picture of the girl in the frog suit. I have no idea how it got there. http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=466 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/465.html Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:56:40 GMT Hi. I realize this has taken awhile to put together. I won't bore you with the whole story but what it boiled down to is that I couldn't get into my PayPal account when my email address (I used the Verizon address) wasn't operative, and I couldn't give them a new address wiithout getting into my account. Catch-22. It offered me the chance to phone them (which I couldn't do because I don't have a phone line which is why the email address didn't work) or snail-mail them. If they had offered me the choice of giving them a new email address for contact purposes, this would have been over 2... (more) http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=465 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/464.html Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:02:25 GMT After a process that resembled nothing so much as breaking into Fort Knox with a teaspoon, I have finally managed to straighten out my PayPal account. For those of you who wish to donate to help me get back on line, the new email address is mick.arran@gmail.com. You can, so I'm told, send money through that account by giving that address. I'm running out of time, so a plea will have to wait. Thanks in advance. http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=464 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/463.html Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:38:36 GMT My phone's been disconnected for lack of payment. A bit of a surprise since I only owed them a couple hundred $$ and they didn't give me but a few days' notice. I'm trying to work it out. At the moment I'm at the office using their computer while I'm on hold with the phone company. I just talked to them. They claim I owe $500 (twice as much as the notice said I owed and as my records show I owed). They won't reconnect until the entire balance they're showing is paid. I'm history. It'll be months before I can get that kind of money together--if ever. If you want to help, my PayPal acct is... (more) http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=463 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/462.html Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:55:52 GMT Mark Fiore takes on the House Republicans' fondness for passing controversial bills at midnight. http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=462 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/461.html Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:26:37 GMT Throughout history, torturers have always had excuses for their torture. Torquemada was defending the Church from heretics. Vlad the Impaler was ridding his country of undesirable elements. Hitler was protecting whites from the scourge of non-Aryan mongrel races. In the late 20th century, though, one excuse has stood out. South African police used it when they defended putting burning tires around the necks of black prisoners. Pinochet used it to defend the practice of his secret police when they attached wires to the testicals of prisoners and ran an electric charge through them (a little... (more) http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=461 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/460.html Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:29:44 GMT I've been thinking about it. Blogdrive has grown tremendously in the past year and they seem to be having some trouble keeping up. I've been experiencing many of the same kinds of delays and glitches that drove me mad at Blogspot the summer before last. It's not quite as bad as that but almost. (Oddly enough, one of the places I'd consider moving to would be...back to Blogspot. I've beern playing with it for a couple of months and they seem to have gotten all the madness under control finally. It's still slow but it seems to be a lot more reliable than it was. Or is that an... (more) http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=460 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/459.html Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:10:38 GMT The Texas re-districting plan that was so high-handed it signaled a Republican determination to steal elections (signaled it to anyone who didn’t already know, that is) was actually considered by a majority of the lawyers at Justice to be a violation of the Voting Rights Act (which is what a few of us said at the time). Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled... (more) http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=459 http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/458.html Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:55:25 GMT Coming from the man who dismantled the Civil Rights Division at Justice and turned the Civil Rights Commission into a toothless joke after it criticized his administration for doing nothing about civil rights, this is obscene.Washington -- President Bush on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to relinquish her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., by signing legislation to place a statue of the late civil rights heroine in the Capitol. Bush elevated a routine bill signing into a high-profile White House ceremony that brought together African American officials... (more) http://omnium.blogdrive.com/comments?id=458