Someday, perhaps in a generation or two, in a blissful distant future Windows will support loading drivers from USB. O what a day that will be. Too bad that day is not today. Yes, I could have a mac, in which case I could pay for the convenience of driving to the Apple Store with my gun and talking to a 19 year old "genius" who will simply take the ( Read more... )

McCain's initial answers to questions tended to be as strong, though not he did do very well in his response to the opening question about the financial situation. Where McCain had a persistent edge was in controlling the agenda of the debate ( Read more... )

no one wants corn subsidies - I mean, Lazarus didn't actually ASK to be raised from the dead.

Kissinger introduced in 1972, supporting a Kurdish uprising and then abandoning the Kurds to the Shah of Iran's slaughter machine. "Promise them anything, give them what they get and fuck them if they can't take a joke."

An Important Update from Secure Your Prosperity ( Read more... )

Now more than ever it is vital to the security of this nation that each and every one of you do your American duty and report suspicious activities of your strange, different, possibly ethnic neighbors. Become part of America's grassroots police force and Secure Your Prosperity for tomorrow ( Read more... )

I'm currently sitting at the Indigo Hotel bar drinking beer, watching Texas Flood. Hurrican Ike is battering the Gulf coast, and its long reach up into the midwest is drowning the first MotoGP at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in rain. This hasn't stopped the riders from going flat-out and attempting to lean hard into the shores of each turn and ( Read more... )

You get the general idea: The choice to go with Palin for VP was intended as a one-way ticket to bring disenfranchised Clinton supporters to the GOP ticket, and perhaps more than a few of the undecided female vote. My initial reaction was to scoff - as was most people I've talked to. But let's assume McCain's campaign staff aren't complete morons ( Read more... )

A health care policy advisor for the McCain campaign told a newspaper reporter that nobody in the United States is technically uninsured, because everyone has access to hospital emergency rooms ( Read more... )

Sex and Booze. Let's not fuck around here: there will be nothing quiet nor safe in the back room of Points East Saturday night. Your weak eardrums and your conservative missionary social values are not welcome. Bring only what you need to drink, and leave the rest for dead ( Read more... )