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A Happy Birthday to my beloved wife!
TempleViper has passed another milestone today. Another year older, but still - as she is quick to point out - younger than me. Fortunately, she's like a fine wine - richer and sweeter to behold as time goes on. Happy birthday, sweetheart. I love you. -
Daybreak
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Meditations On The Abyss
The Bush Administration was a cabal of dictatorship-loving, America-hating, freedom-destroying traitors, and was nothing more or less than the full manifestation of conservatism in action.
There is no hyperbole whatsoever in that statement; it was obvious in every action they took, and is documented in their own writings, finally made available by ( Read more... ) -
"To Your Scattered Bodies Go..."
Philip Jose Farmer has died today, at the age of 91. He was already 60 when I first started reading his works, and though the Riverworld was a rather silly idea it was also bold and unique and ambitious, and I found Farmer's use of it as a backdrop for epic storytelling and speculation about historical figures to be absolutely captivating (at ( Read more... ) -
The Upgrade Path, Part Six - “Intel versus AMD; The Hammer Falls.”
You know, these articles aren’t hard to write or anything, I just haven’t gotten around to them for a while. As a result, it’s been a year and ten months since part five of this series which, in computer technology, is a geological age… but I will finish this series. Or at least continue, thus ( Read more... ) -
Bettie Page has died.
She was the original hawtness. Forget Betty Grable, or Mae West, or Marilyn Monroe; none of them held a candle to her. No other woman of her era ever made black-and-white look so good.
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Midnight On the Firing Line
I confess to a certain amount of euphoria. It is appropriate and well-deserved after the blundering nightmare of creeping fascism that has typified the last eight years. But it will wear off, and what will remain is cautious optimism. I am going to jump to that stage a little early to look ahead at the coming Obama Presidency. There’s a hell of ( Read more... ) -
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Hello. To all my friends and readers, and to anyone else who happens to stop by, I am thrilled to be able to say...
Welcome back to the United States of America.
338 electoral votes. Three hundred. And thirty-eight. Republicans, take heed; THIS is what a mandate looks like.
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A Children's Guide To The History Behind The 2008 Election
I've recently come to a realization. Over the years I've had some conversations and many arguments with people who identify as Libertarian, both online and in the real world, and after the more recent bouts in the last couple of months I've reached the conclusion that Libertarianism is a religion. Not a political or economic philosophy, just yet ( Read more... )
