Thanks for being patient! This has been a tempestuous month for this site due to EXTENSIVE travel. Our co-bloggers have been helping to keep it going, amid logistical problems on our end. For two weeks TMV was in Wyoming and Montana. He returned to home base San Diego on Monday...but has barely been at home due to shows and being stuck in traffic jams. Thursday our own … [Read more...] about Thanks For Your CONTINUED Patience!

I thought she was doing that VH1 reality show, but I guess her network-hopping matches her boudoir activities. (For confused link-clickers: It shouldn't be a thinker's joke.) … [Read more...] about How the hell did Tammy Faye Bakker get on Comedy Central?

This was a long overdue project. Of course, Reagan's "11th Commandment" should be an anathema anyway--criticism and dissent are essential to any functioning body, be it a nation, community, company, or political party. But when one supports "the Party as an end rather than a means," blind loyalty is a very predictable consequence. Well, we'll see how this plays out. In the … [Read more...] about Better Late Than Never

...in a move that would have been unthinkable four decades ago, when they were the "bad boys" of rock and roll, now issue a statement: Stones deny song attacks Bush By Michael Rowland in Washington Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger denies one of the band's new songs, Sweet Neo-con, is an attack on US President George W Bush. The ageing rock group is about to start an … [Read more...] about In an irony all the more hard because of the need for denial, the Rolling Stones…

...it is of small comfort to understand that the know-how to make an atomic bomb isn't exactly secret (and you should know that this commentary comes from someone who has known the basics of how to construct a nuclear weapon for over 17 years). It's the separation of isotopes that's damn hard, and our only salvation, for now... … [Read more...] about In these days of fear of the nuclear capabilities of Iran and North Korea…

Cross-posted to Random Fate. --- When I was in graduate school, on an exam in my Classical Electrodynamics class, we were asked to re-derive the Maxwell Equations assuming that in addition to the existence of electric charge, magnetic charge also was present in the universe (aka magnetic monopoles, of the north and south variety, analogous to positive and negative charge, and … [Read more...] about Some thoughts… on weblogs and thinking outside of the box

A new, possible alleged motive for the killing of newsman/blogger Steven Vincent has emerged, according to the Scotsman: AN American journalist who was shot dead in Basra last week was executed by Shiite extremists who knew he was intending to marry his Muslim interpreter, it has emerged. Steven Vincent was shot a week before the planned wedding to Nouriya Itais and had … [Read more...] about Was American Reporter/Blogger Killed Due To Wedding Plans?

The gloves have come off in Great Britain where the government has moved swiftly to grab 10 foreigners seen as a "threat to security" in pre-deportation moves.The foreigners, thought to include Abu Qatada, once described as the spiritual ambassador of Al Qaeda in Europe, were detained in early-morning raids across Britain by police forces in London, Leicester, Luton and the … [Read more...] about Britain Seizes 10 Foreigners In Security Crackdown

We all know that the conventional (which does not always mean correct) wisdom is growing that Hillary Clinton could be the Democratic nominee in 2008 but did you know that a famous journalist is now suggesting that you-know-who will get the nod on the Republican ticket? The famous journalist is Pulitizer Prize winning Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward of Watergate … [Read more...] about Woodward Suggest Dick Cheney Will Run For President In 2008

Our occasional linkfest of interesting posts from all over the Internet reflecting DIFFERENT viewpoints. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of The Moderate Voice. The Cindy Sheehan Story: Due to logistics, we haven't done a post on this story about the mother of a killed serviceman demanding to meet the President. Crooks And Liars has lots of interesting … [Read more...] about Around The Sphere August 11, 2005

Britain and the United States have a message for Iran: get your nose out of Iraq:Britain formally protested to Iran yesterday over its growing interference in Iraq's internal affairs, citing the smuggling of sophisticated explosives that threaten to send coalition casualties soaring. The move came after British and American intelligence officials said they uncovered evidence … [Read more...] about Britain and U.S. Irked Over Iran Meddling In Iraq

The dear friends at Focus on the Family have brought us a helpful checklist to determine whether your pre-pubescent son is gay. Since our readers tend to be pinko-commie-liberals, and it's my patriotic duty to save their children from gayness (they of course, don't care, because non-Christian Fundamentalist hate children. And families. And puppies. And rainbows), I will share … [Read more...] about Please let this be a parody, please let this be a parody, oh God, it’s not a parody…

How power affects "black on white" racism--and why both "structural" and "individual" power are too simplistic to deal with the scope of the problem. … [Read more...] about From the Minority to the Majority

I don't know how many of our readers are interested in theology, but I've penned a Jewish response to a Christian interpretation of Ezekiel. Be warned--the second, "radical," half of my piece might be disturbing to some. … [Read more...] about Bible Chat

According to CNN, Iran today broke the seals at one of its nuclear facilities. Needless to say, that seems like awfully bad news, though Iran may be as much as a decade away from nuclear weaponry. But there's a bigger story out there, and it's not getting nearly enough coverage in the media: The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the real leader of Iran, has issued a fatwa against … [Read more...] about Iranian leader issues fatwa against nuclear weapons

...where there exists blood and tears and death, and we may neglect the other locations to our ultimate regret in the judgment of history. When I was young, I wondered how could the Holocaust have happened, why was it not stopped by those who saw how wrong it was. Now, I see first-hand how it could have happened, and how it might have continued if the insanity of Adolf Hitler … [Read more...] about Iraq is not the only place…

Mark August 2005 on your calenders because it is truly the end of an era that last a little less than a century:In the 1960s, Walt Disney joked that one day he'd replace his elite corps of animators, known as the "Nine Old Men," and their slow, expensive way of making hand-drawn movies, with Audio-Animatronic figures. At the end of last month, Walt's joke came true. The studio … [Read more...] about Disney Ends Hand Drawn Animation

Cancer is (sadly) in the news (my earliest memory is being an infant and looking down as my grandmother Rose Ravinsky held me up while she was in bed, dying of cancer. She died when I was a small child). So you NEED to read this. … [Read more...] about Combating The Big C

It sounds as if an abortion rights group is doing all it can to create a backlash and elect him by putting out inaccurate info, according to Fact Check.org: An abortion-rights group is running an attack ad accusing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of filing legal papers “supporting . . . a convicted clinic bomberâ€? and of having an ideology that “leads him to excuse … [Read more...] about Fact Check.Org Says Attacks On Roberts Inaccurate

This Guest Movie Review was done by San Diego nurse Kathleen Dunn. We originally got it as a private email after she had seen the film and also read various reviews. We loved what she had to say and asked her if we could post it on our site. "MURDERBALL" Now Showing at a Theater Near You: You may have already heard about "Murderball", a gritty, uncompromising documentary (86 … [Read more...] about Guest Movie Review: Murderball