I'm really sorry if I worried anybody by not posting for so long.  I totally haven't meant to ignore you guys who asked about me, but circumstances have kind of conspired against me.  I've been out of town, dealing with a changed work/life situation and fighting a losing battle with my home computer (its for all intents and purposes dead and I don' ( Read more... )

With the world's economy looking grim, its nice to know that all of us could still fulfill a common childhood dream and run off to be a pirate.  Apparently, piracy isn't just for the Carribean anymore, and in addition to all the booty you sieze raiding vessels off the coast of Somalia, you get even more cash by ransoming the scurvy landlubbing dogs ( Read more... )

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Defenestration is the act of throwing someone out of a window.  Try it today!

British researches have developed a low-power, compact system capable of shielding a spacecraft from radiation and solar storms.

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I'm very happy that Obama won.  Its wonderful, historic and a great opportunity to finally confront some of the major issues facing this country.

However, I'm more than a little upset that as of right now it looks like as of tomorrow I will officially be a second-class citizen in my home state of California.  Proposition 8 has over 50% of the vote ( Read more... )

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An ad supporting Prop H8, largely typical of the flawed logic and idiocy underlying the "yes" camp.

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Their moronic argument deconstructed.

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I think we all saw this coming.

"U.S. banks getting more than $163 billion from the Treasury Department for new lending are on pace to pay more than half of that sum to their shareholders, with government permission, over the next three years."

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