What follows is the journal of my week after Hurricane Ike. While I wasn’t able to see most of the coverage on the storm in real time, I did catch snippets of it from the radio and after the fact via the internet. While there was a great deal of damage from the storm, it did seem like things were greatly over hyped.

I’d just like to take a moment to let everyone know that I am alive and well.

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You’ve reached the Blog of a Secular Conservative.  Either my power or my internet are out or I was forced to leave my home due to storm damage.  Hurricane Ike has made a direct hit on my home town of Houston and for whatever reason I’m still not able to get back here.  I wrote [...]

While I work, I can’t push out of my mind the fact that today is September 11th, 2008.

The all-seeing-eye tells me my post about the FCC is a popular one, and Calixte and Mags have both come asking me about this topic, so I figure it’s time for another installment of “Ask Janus.” If you have a question to ask that’s remotely related to either politics, government, or something I’ve written about in the past, feel free to leave a comment, shoot me an email, or toss me an IM.

Today’s question is: “Why does Comcast get a legal monopoly in Houston and why does the FCC get to regulate them?”