Six years ago I started this website with the promise that it would be my last great attempt at a homepage.  I like to think that I've done a good job in the last six years to create a really cool site.  Thanks to the purchase of a used Canon digital ELPH camera I was able to fill this site with pictures.  That little camera rekindled my love of photography.  Today I have three digital cameras and nearly 1,000 pictures posted in Vista Drive.

This site has been an ongoing experiment in which I try just about everything.  I have tried my hand at opinions, humor, short stories, short films, telling you what's wrong with anything and everything, and basically splashed my life onto HTML.  I have shared my life with everyone through my journal, and everyone's secrets through "I confess."

Everyone's life is on Myspace these days, but before that there were homepages where you had to create everything from scratch.  This is that kind of homepage, totally made from scratch.  It was my attempt to convey who I am, and what my life is all about. All of us want to leave our mark on this world.  I started this site as a way of doing that, but I've found that I had already made that mark.  Now as I continue to update this site with more ideas and photos, I like to think that it won't ever stop.  Someday I may tire of posting my thoughts on my journal, or saying who dresses like an idiot, but I won't tire of my art, my photography.  That part of the site has always grown because there are so many things I've yet to see, and yet to share.

I hope that you, who have been with me for this journey, will continue to be a part of my ever growing homepage.  Here's hoping for another year.

It's now been SIX years since 9/11 and where are we?  Osama is still alive, the Taliban have regained strength, and we are no safer than we were in 2001.  This President has promised so much, but has delivered on so little.  Many joke that Bush might be the worst President we've ever had.  While I wasn't alive to experience some of our past presidents, I can say that surly Bush is one of the worse intended.

While I'm sure that what he does comes from a place where he may not want to do our country harm, it is nevertheless harming us.  And perhaps that makes it all the worse.  The fact that he doesn't intend to fuck things up, but does anyway.  But, I don't think that he has acted in any way without a thought process.  The problem is that his thought process brings us to disaster.  His attention strays, and while there was a viable enemy in Afghanistan, this president abandoned that fight for one in Iraq.  A fight that was paved by the events of 9/11.  That was the excuse that gave this president the blank check he needed.

We now know that this President is a liar and a fool.  Less than a year and a half before he leaves office the writing is on the wall, "The worst President ever."  The failings in Iraq not withstanding, there have been many more failings.  The failure to protect our borders, the failure to protect miners, the failure to protect travelers, the failure to secure the citizens of this nation.  The biggest failures of this administration will be the Afghan war, the Iraq war, and the response to hurricane Katrina.  Two years after Katrina devastated New Orleans the rebuilding effort makes news for its slowness and inefficiency.  Six years after the 9/11 attacks we still haven't brought the man who masterminded the attacks into custody.  Three years after invading Iraq on the pretense that it sponsored terrorism Saddam is dead, but so are thousands of civilians and soldiers, and a country is in shambles.

Mistakes aren't often made on shows like this because the contestants have been coached over and over again to respond to the same tired questions from judges.  But this time, either nerves or stupidity finally caught up to one contestant.  What do you think?