Homeland Security

I swear I hate the term "Homeland Security." "Homeland" sounds too much like Motherland (Russia) or Fatherland (Nazi Germany). And given the way the department operated under Bush, those comparisions…

Confirmation Hearings Schedule

Now that the new Congress is underway, confirmation hearings are set to begin. Thursday, Jan. 8 Tom Daschle for Health and Human Services secretary Friday, Jan. 9 Rep. Hilda Solis…

Prologue to A Homecoming

Friday, it looked like mrs. nemski’s mother, Grandma, had turned a corner and would be home in two weeks. I went to work on Monday content that mrs. nemski was feeling better, a bit more relaxed, worried, yet coming to terms with her mother’s illness. I shot her a quick email to remind her that I had guests coming over on Tuesday night. She thanked me (rather sarcastically) as she said she needed to get cleaning. With Grandma in the hospital, things around the house had begun to fall apart. We really tried to keep up with everything, but between trips to the hospital, making sure we ate, Christmas decorations still up in hopes of celebrating with Grandma, the dog shedding like a mutha-f#$%^er and trying to keep nemski jr. occupied and happy —the house was beginning to look like my old bachelor pad.

At 3 PM on Monday, the wife and I talked, and I discovered that Grandma would be coming home sometime on Wednesday. “Hospice,” mrs. nemski said. The code word had been spoken, it had been spoken before, but we both knew this would be Grandma’s last time home. I asked my wife how she was doing. “Fine, I guess,” she said repeating our eleven year-old’s daily response when asked how school was. Grandma doesn’t like a dirty house, so I joked that it was good that she got an early start cleaning. We laughed.

We still laugh.

Divided On Israel

John Aravosis at Americablog articulates my feelings about Israel pretty well. I'm always very divided about issues surrounding Israel. I think many Americans on the right have a knee-jerk support…

Blogger Dinner Update/Open Thread

THE DELAWARELIBERAL INAUGURAL BALL is going to be awesome, but it really stomped on our organizational momentum to get the blogger dinner done in February.  [Also, I have probably alienated half…

More Markell Cabinet Picks

According the NJ: Lewis Schiliro, an AIG executive, for Director of Department of Safety and Homeland Security Carl Danberg stays at Department of Corrections Major General Frank Vavala stays as…