Given that I haven't updated here in seven years, and my account recently got hacked, I think it's time for me to bid this journal goodbye. Not that I'm expecting anyone to see this, but all the same -- so long, everyone. It's been... virtual, I guess.

Hello. This is a message for anyone out there who is running into a problem with an Asus P7H55-M Pro Motherboard where you've got everything plugged in - but for some reason, the system/BIOS isn't starting up, isn't beeping, and isn't displaying anything at all on the monitor.

The answer is that there are two power sockets on the motherboard - a 12- ( Read more... )

So I just got the trick that the Republicans pulled tonight - why they had two speeches. Bachmann's the fall guy. She goes up there, with her charts and her eyes not quite focused on the screen, and makes Paul Ryan look like the moderate. Even though he's the guy talking about cutting Social Security ( Read more... )

'The birther "debate" doesn't exist. There is no debate. You don't call what happens when a bunch of people decide to willfully ignore every scrap of evidence thrown their way - like, say, the high-res scans of the birth certificate posted three years ago - a debate. You call that a mockery. Or political theater. Possibly vaudeville. But not a

December 10, 2010 ( Read more... )

Sat down last night to try and actually figure out this whole Obamacare thing - which I'll admit I didn't do as great a job keeping track of back when it happened earlier this year - and why the conservatives are so upset about it. A few hours later, my head hurts, but I think I have a better idea of what's going on. Here's what I've learned:

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A letter to the editors of the Wall Street Journal, just sent today. Doubt it'll get in - like their brother company, Fox News, they tend not to allow anything that questions the Big Narrative into the paper - but nonetheless fun to write anyway.

In response to “What the Tea Partiers Want” (Review section, Saturday, October 16, 2010): I admire and ( Read more... )

So you know how it is... You get busy, you let the blog go for a while -- make that a long while. You promise yourself that you'll post something as soon as you've got something *really* good, something worth writing about... But not right then, so it languishes for a few more months while you try and think of something appropriately dramatic ( Read more... )

Letter submitted tonight to the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Let me be blunt: I can see nothing more fitting than for the planners of the September 11th attack to be tried as common criminals in New York City.

The Republicans have been whining that military tribunals are somehow safer. On the contrary, allowing these men to be tried and convicted behind ( Read more... )

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