"Death is the issue! How can we not be unified against death? I want my government helping my father to fight death! I want my government to spend taxpayer money to help my father fight to live and I want my government to spend taxpayer money to help your father fight to live! I want it to spend my money first on fighting death. Not on war! Not on ( Read more... )

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I've long been a fan of his special comments, but this one is a breakout - it's something altogether more than commentary on politics, or the nation, or law and order. There's a quality here that's timeless - anyone could be making this appeal in a thousand different places or a thousand different times, and I've no doubt they have and will again ( Read more... )

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-06/you-can-forget-my-taxes/Read more... )

At work today, we had a little moment of 'who can find the most esoteric OS' - we had many submissions, but I decided to go for the gold and try to find a manual for the DEC PDP-6. The reason I went for this one was my father wrote the programming guide for DEC back in the 60s, and I figured pulling out the 'dad wrote this' card would earn me a ( Read more... )

In the past 2 weeks, I've found Two Mantis waiting around when I walked out of a building ( Read more... )

And throws in a healthy dose of Thomas Jefferson to boot...

( Olberman On Rumsfeld )

For those of you not in Connecticut, and possibly not familiar with the story, let me tell you about tonight ( Read more... )

"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
--- Ben Franklin

The Complete text of Martin Luther Kings' "I have a dream" speech:
http://www.holidays.net/mlk/speech.htm

The transcript of the speech Al Gore gave today, on the behavior of the executive branch:http