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On the morning of January 20, 2016, I made a public post that upset some of my more liberal friends. I called out what I thought was unhelpful…
Current active weather advisories in DC: Flash Flood Warning, Areal Flood Warning, Coastal Flood Warning, Coastal Flood Watch, Flash Flood Watch We’re getting a bit of rain.
Now that everyone from Fox to NPR (the full range of the rationality spectrum) has called the presidential race… I just gotta say… listening to the results tonight,…
For the nations who were deeply involved in World War II, the war effort was total, with women volunteering in huge numbers alongside men and filling traditionally male…
Stupid little buggers. I went to take pictures at the Anonymous protest, yesterday. Anonymous — if you’re unaware — is a protest movement against the Church of Scientology….
I am off in about an hour and a half, to spend Christmas with my family. (Am I worried about people knowing my apartment will be vacant? No….
Interesting proposition from Wikipedia founder J. Wales, about what could you do with $100,000,000, in terms of freeing copyrights, with a teaser of the possibility of it becoming…
I was briefly talking to someone today about what comes after we stop fighting about oil. (If all else fails, when it runs out, there’s nothing left to…
Audrey Tautou, of Amelie fame, is going to star in the movie version of The DaVinci Code.
This a day after watching Syriana, where it was a major plot point: “China has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia that may boost Beijing’s purchases of Saudi…
Guatemala’s two top anti-drug officials and one police officer were arrested in the United States for attempting to smuggle cocaine, Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann said on Wednesday….
Remember, remember the Fifth of November gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
The bill would withhold for two years all federal economic development funds from states and localities that use economic development as a rationale for property seizures. It also…
When a high school student takes a picture of themselves giving the thumbs-down to a tacked up magazine photo of The Shrub — as part of a project…
Uh oh… bad sign. Reports that Bush says Miers won’t withdraw herself from consideration for the U.S. Supreme Court. I give it less than a week now before…
As recent as yesterday, there is speculation that Ms. Miers will withdraw her name for consideration for the Supreme Court. Today, the Shrub is predicting that she will…
From an ABC news story: The draft report of the federal government’s emergency plan predicts that as many as 200 million Americans could be infected and 200,000 could…
There’s a special place in hell reserved for people who lay on the horn while commuting through a residential neighborhood.