Yeah, still on vacation, but coming back soon. Mostly, I kinda figure I've said all that needs to be said about the current political climate and will comment when something cool happens, like VP nominations or something. But for now, debating changing the icon theme, so I'll put it to you to decide which one. Oh, and if you've seen The Dark Knight ( Read more... )

Well, the official results are still coming in but it appears that Barack Obama has won the South Carolina Democratic primary. And he won by about 2 to 1, 55% for him, 26% for Hillary Clinton and 19% for Edwards. Two to one. Which in a three way race is pretty decisive. Hillary herself left South Carolina earlier today and e-mails from staff ( Read more... )

As this blog starts, the New Hampshire primary is decided for the Republicans, with McCain winning big and undecided for the Democrats. As this is written, Sen. Clinton just defeated Sen. Obama by 2%, even though it took hours after the polls have closed. The Republican primaries were declared at about 8:30, but this took two and a half hours to be ( Read more... )

Well, here we are, the night before the first primary of the 2008 election. Yes, the Iowa Caucuses are finally here and, well, it's like the first night of Chanukah, Christmas or some other big holiday. It's the start of the whole new ball game that will last us an amazing 11 months as we figure who gets the mess left behind by George W. Bush. To ( Read more... )

Well, presidential primary season is upon us here in the United States of America, with the Iowa caucuses coming up first on Thursday. It seemed appropriate in my role here as political ranter extraordinaire to go into a brief history or primaries, caucuses and how this all began here in America. Primaries were envisioned by the Founding Fathers, ( Read more... )

Most of us have heard all the stereotypes about sorority girls: the overly-social, too perky, not very bright and possibly sluttier than your average college girl. They get called sorostitutes and other unflattering names. They get the reputation as being the girls who never wanted to live beyond high school and are doing anything to desperately ( Read more... )

No, this is oddly enough NOT a rant about the Iraq War, or Afghanistan, or Iran or anywhere else we're killing people. This is about the Super Bowl of politics coming up next year, the 2008 elections. Fulfilling a long standing prediction, Barack Obama filed papers to form an exploratory committee, which is considered the first step before ( Read more... )

Yes, the pun is intentional. It's a refence to the best character, named Hiro, on the show Heroes. It's a show on NBC that may be the next source of icons at the rate it's going. It's about mostly normal people who discover they have some kind of special powers. One character can fly, one character can read minds, and Hiro is an office worker/manga ( Read more... )

It was a tough fight with all the rhetoric and bluster of something important, but there was a House vote to commemorate the September 11th attacks. The vote was passed overwhelmingly 395-22 (yes, math majors will notice that 18 Congresscritters did not vote in this) but there was still a floor fight. Democrats accused Republicans of not making ( Read more... )

In a pair of stunning moves in the past weeks, Bill Gates left the day to day operations of Microsoft to oversee the more day to day operations of the Gates Foundation and Warren Buffett pledged the better part of his fortune to help the organization. Buffett is pledging about 40 BILLION dollars on top the Gates' almost 50 billion. So, yes, there ( Read more... )