I mean, not that there's anything WRONG with it!

This whole thing with Senator Craig got me thinking - this is the ultimate political attack these days. Accuse a man of homosexual activity and either way he's going to suffer fallout. If he doesn't vehemently deny it, to the point of there's-no-way-in-hell because that's disgusting, then he leaves ( Read more... )

Perhaps this will bode well for global warming? Not to mention, if it DOES work out like that, the faith of Pastafarians everywhere will get a boost ;)

I fear I may have broken my foot. At the least, it's started hurting like hell when I walk on it. If it's no better tomorrow (day 3), I suppose I'll head to the orthopedist. While there can be no good time for this, broken or no, the last remaining warm beautiful days of fall would NOT be my first choice. And how did this wonderment befall me? In ( Read more... )

The first baby boomer applied for Social Security benefits today. At last, that dreaded thing that politicians and economists have been sounding the alarm about for years is finally here. And nothing has been done about it. About 10,000 people per day are expected to sign up for benefits over the next 20 years, and without changes, the program will ( Read more... )

We're very fortunate in our blogosphere here. When our blogs disappear, it's almost certainly a technical issue - not a political one! Will China ever embrace individual free speech? Maybe... but not in my lifetime. The Sino-Islmo-Western showdown is really only just getting wound up, and the US has already set itself up to go down in flames in so ( Read more... )

Hunters are providing food for homeless shelters which has benefits for all... unless you're the deer, of course! We can't realistically take the stance that we won't kill ANY animals any more than that we won't cut ANY trees. Deer are just giant, somewhat-cute, disease-carrying rats with no natural predators in most areas they roam. Unless you ( Read more... )

What's the difference between the man "raving on the street and waving placards about the coming day of judgment " and the man on the television proclaiming essentially the same message? One of them is more able to "persuade enough foolish people to part with their savings ( Read more... )

It seems capitalism is like a lot of other things: when wielded by the wrong hands, Very Bad things can happen. This Bill Moyers interview with John Bogle is almost enough to make even the surest atheist consider that Satan himself might be at the helm. The pursuit of wealth has become completely unconscionable - in a very big, organized, and ( Read more... )

...in the hands of overzealous idiots! I really detest this kind of thing because the only way to resolve it is to go through the $$$courts$$$, and the abusers of their power know this. I think if they're going to be this much of an asshat about it that if/when they are proven wrong in the court they should be permanently removed from the job, ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting read about Sputnik on the 50th anniversary of its launch. The whole thing was driven by the desire to be able to lob a hydrogen bomb into the US, the guys that actually did it couldn't talk about it under Soviet secrecy, and the West credited some guy that had nothing to do with it. I guess our intelligence gathering hasn't ( Read more... )