I think this was a disaster of expectations management for me personally. I try to prevent myself from becoming despondent by allowing for all the possibilities, but i was unable to do that this time. Poor me, i'll wallow for a bit...but it'll pass. KERRY IN A LANDSLIDE!! I actually said that several times to several people yesterday ( Read more... )

WITH PRIZES ( Read more... )

20 years ago, which would you have bet on being developed first: flying cars or cyborgs.....

Advent of Robotic Monkeys: If a monkey is hungry but has his arms pinned, there's not much he can do about it. Unless that monkey can control a nearby robotic arm with his brain. And that's exactly what the monkey in Andrew Schwartz's neurobiology lab at ( Read more... )

Giblets is happy...i think....

So the Red Sox have won. Giblets accepts this, after some prodding. Yes, those were the Red Sox, and not, say, alien baseball droids in clever plastic disguises. Towards the end there Giblets got pretty confident, even. I had a comfortable sense that things could not possibly go wrong, that the fickle whims of a ( Read more... )

1. We have an economy which must always grow, or crash ( Read more... )

While peak oil in of itself seems to be a harbinger of disaster, they are many other factors at play that I feel will exacerbate our ability to forestall a hard-landing. Here are some of the things I see ( Read more... )

I've been trying to take a little bit of a bigger picture view of this stuff lately. I can feel my frustration level rising and the tension in the back of my mind is building as the election gets closer. I don't know if i've had a revelation...certainly nothing concrete and distinct has happened...but i have started thinking about this all ( Read more... )

President Bush has a picture on his wall. A picture of Optimism. Do you believe in Optimism? Because Optimism means votin for President Bush. If you vote for him he will show you what Optimism looks like ( Read more... )

not only was last night a clear Kerry win, but it was the night I actually became a Kerry partisan, as opposed to regarding Kerry as simply the standard-bearer of the ABB movement ( Read more... )

An interesting take:

"As a trial lawyer, Edwards learned not to allow a witness to explain. Had he challenged Cheney on each lie, Cheney could have explained them away. A better trial tactic, I am not sure about a debate, is to let the falsehood sit there but point it out later to the jury or the judge. By not letting Cheney explain away the lies ( Read more... )