... to everyone who has been turning the Katrina disaster into a political diatribe against the evils of the Bush administration and against conservatives in general. "FUCK YOU!" And another to the conservatives who have been responding in spiteful kind. "FUCK YOU, too!"

And now, awful meanspirited conservative that I am, I'll return to my low- ( Read more... )

Someone I like and respect rather much has, much to my relief, survived the EndOfTheWorld in a now-drowned city which I shared all too briefly with someone even more important to me. Those parts of the city I know best are the most likely ones to survive, since they're the old parts, built before many of the levies which have failed the city so ( Read more... )

It's been sixty years. North Korea wants to party, so let's have a blast!

The last two nights have been wild and fierce, a strange contrast to the quiet stargazing of the past couple weeks. Nights on my mountain outside Pecos have been full of shooting stars; of cool, quiet breezes; and of cups of coffee or matechino sipped while counting the satellites that pass by overhead. They've been full of the sound of crickets ( Read more... )

The wildfires in Arizona burn, and New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley is filled with smoke. But I'm east of there, and up high, high, high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. I'm outside the town of Pecos, east and a bit south of Santa Fe. I'm home now, finally, after months of no job and nowhere to live. I belong on this mountaintop near Pecos ( Read more... )

In light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, I will be petitioning your various state governments to take away your private property and give it to me. After all, my quest for profits at public expense will actually benefit society. Right?

(Oh, did I mention I'm willing to give kickbacks to government officials?)

Attention liberals (especially the U.S. news media): Desecration of the Koran is not "abuse," nor is it a violation of the Geneva Convention. And even if it were, you should target your angsty whining at the towelheads who blast themselves, innocent civilians - and their copies of the Koran - to smithereens in the name of "Jihad." And then you ( Read more... )

Liberals predict a major fight if Bush nominates someone in the mold of Thomas and Scalia, or anyone viewed as too conservative.See, this is the problem. Scalia is a wonderful Justice with an impeccable understanding of Constitutional law. Thomas leans a little too far to the left, but he's an incredibly intelligent moderate. Yet, the lefties ( Read more... )

It appears that the French are not the stupid, spineless, leftist fuckwits we originally thought they were.

...They're a completely different brand of stupid, spineless, leftist fuckwit.

Cooler today. Temperatures only in the upper 90s. Hot enough, still, certainly. Until evening, an hour or so before sunset, when the rains started and the temperatures dropped. First clouds, building in the south and west. A glint of sunlight off raindrops in the distance. Then the wind, sweeping in from all directions, stirring up dust and grit ( Read more... )