CNN, in a fit of myopia, wants to know Why our science fiction future fizzledThis makes me wonder who the hell is supposed to be writing for CNN these days. I'm too cheap to buy an iPhone, so I have to settle for having the sum of human knowledge accessible on my laptop, rather than actually in my pants. My cellphone admittedly doesn't talk to ( Read more... )

but there was a terrible flash of inspiration that descended on me the other night, that I cannot get rid of ( Read more... )

The United States was officially involved in the Second World War from the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 and the surrender of Japan on August 15th, 1945. 1,348 days ( Read more... )

George W. Bush, and the GOP received a stinging rebuke earlier in November, when voters, even in the absence of anything that could be called a Democratic agenda, and even in the face of Mr. Bush and his inner circle repeatedly pointing out that a win for Democrats would be the same as a win for Al Qaueda, overwhelmingly pitched Republicans out of ( Read more... )

( Ranty post - but with pictures! )