dwemm

I am a professor of communication and theatre in a very small college in a very small town in a sparsely populated state, West-by-God-Virginia.

I've got a wife, two adult kids, two overweight cats, and one slobbery dog.

I'm a rationalist who's not easily frightened, a homeowner who sometimes remembers to cut his knee high grass, and a city kid who likes the rural lifestyle--just don't ask me to give up the microwave, directing or my DSL.

Submitted Comments (88)

DIPLOMACY 101 Obama Upsets Sarkozy With Letter to Jacques Chirac »

• Does this mean that the conservative element is no longer requiring us to order Freedom Fries? That the French are no longer constantly in retreat? ...

  8 months, 4 weeks ago 6 replies View »

• 56 comments from 22 members total

Gutless Wonders: Specter Admits GOP's Political Calculus On Stimulus Bill »

• Thanks, Bluetexasvalley. Really good story. I think that Specter and the women from Maine may be the only ones left in the GOP that have ...

  10 months, 1 week ago 31 replies View »

• 184 comments from 35 members total

Minnesota: 3 Months and Counting »

• It doesn't look like the Minnesota Republican Party believes in tort reform to reduce unnecessary and onerously expensive lawsuits.

  10 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 2 comments from 2 members total

Rapture Delayed Due to"Technical Issues" »

• With such a limited number being raptured, it's a little like winning the lottery. Look how many will pay a c-note or better at the ...

  10 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 21 comments from 17 members total

More Ghosts in the Machine »

• Seems that some anti-trust legislation is in order. What exactly is the advantage of combining cable, communications and internet under the same company? Other than ...

  10 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 10 comments from 8 members total

After the war on terror »

• "Barack Obama’s presidency is not a step forward"
  
  I think it's about nine days old. Is that the perspective required to make such ...

  10 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 40 comments from 16 members total

Put These Guys in Guantanamo: AIG Gives $450 Million of Bailout Cash to Just 400 Employees »

• Wow. If these were public employees being paid from public funds, they'd be arrested by now.
  
  Oh. They are being paid with public funds? ...

  10 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 17 comments from 13 members total

Hamas' Dead Baby Strategy »

• Ratskii, not to disagree with your argument, but the more liberal end of the Israeli government needs to show they're not "soft on terror" right ...

  11 months ago 1 reply View »

• 164 comments from 51 members total

Waterboarding Is Illegal »

• This was the lead story in the Washington Post this morning.
  
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...

  11 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »

• 46 comments from 16 members total

Richard Dawkins launches 'There is no God' adverts on buses across Britain »

• or all the way up, if you're in Australia?

  11 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »

• 180 comments from 55 members total

Willful Denial, Arrogance and Stupidity »

• Question those who have the answers. Answer those who have the questions.
  
  Good post, RFE.

  11 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 92 comments from 31 members total

Franken up 225 with recount complete; focus turns to court »

• If only to answer the TV actors who make up the Republican side.

  11 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 40 comments from 20 members total

Intelligent Design - What's The Big Deal? »

• Intelligent Design is less scientific than Creationism. Creationism has the advantage of being a hypothesis that could be proven or disproven by evidence, as can ...

  11 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 233 comments from 50 members total

Unholy Union - Church and State »

• I think that you're right, but not necessarily for the reasons you're expressing. Human institutions, like religions, are susceptible to human motivations, including "ganging up ...

  11 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 35 comments from 100 members total

For Now, Obama Proves to Be Elusive Target for G.O.P. »

• Part of me thinks that any system that only recognizes two competing ideas, Coke or Pepsi, Home Depot or Lowes, Republican or Democrat, is going ...

  11 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• 15 comments from 22 members total