Posted here because FF.net is being wonky

( Last Rites )

Spectacular Bid died yesterday, after a magnificent racing career and (alas) a rather undistinguished two decades at stud. My father was always a horse racing fan, and I had been fascinated by Affirmed's three great wins over Alydar the previous year, so I was watching with interest as Spectacular Bid won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, only ( Read more... )

Ford has a commercial out that uses historical tax cuts as background for talking about their deals on car financing. Unfortunately, the first line of the commercial hit me like the sound of fingernails scratching down a blackboard, amplified to the volume of an air raid siren: "In 1921, Calvin Coolidge signed a tax cut ( Read more... )

Finished and posted a Buffyverse story last night: "More Than Words," a Buffy/Xander conversation piece. Onward! :-)

Finished a short Smallville story tonight--"Sealed," It's a Chloe/Pete conversation piece from Chloe's POV. I suppose I was just trading one cliche for another here, but I liked the way it turned out.

Take *that*, evil writer's block! :-)

Powell's presentation before the UNSC yesterday made plenty of waves: it's been gratifying to see a substantial number of people (some openly, and others more reluctantly) moving towards the idea that, no, we really haven't been making a big fuss over nothing and no, it isn't that we just want to grab that big puddle of oil under Saddam's fat ass ( Read more... )

The New York Times. under the now-infamous guidance of executive editor Howell Raines, is quickly becoming a caricature of the most nasty portrayals of it as a left wing rag. General Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council has a lot of people who were extremely skeptical about the prospect of war in Iraq admitting that there might well ( Read more... )

As those who have conversed with me recently know, I'm more than a little ticked off at the craven behavior of the French regarding the impending action in Iraq. I replied to a post on the subject (again at tacitus.org), and began my response with the following line ( Read more... )

With the Columbia disaster on everyone's mind, a lot of people have been talking about the future of space travel. I posted this to a thread on the subject at the Tacitus site ( Read more... )

It's getting close to baseball season again, though ESPN.com still isn't spending much time on it, except for a few tidbits. The Yankees have a $164 million payroll? Good grief. If I understand the new luxury tax, they're going to get hammered ( Read more... )