In the last two days we've been told there were three bombs, a fire, one unexploded bomb, cell phones were cut off, there were only two bombs, and no fire, a guy was under arrest, cell phone coverage was not cut off, a guy wasn't under arrest, another guy was arrested, except now he isn't but any minute now someone could be. Stay tuned!  Eleventy ( Read more... )

A man exits a diner, trying to be inconspicuous.  A string of balloons and a flying saucer crash next to him.

Then things get weird.

The US Navy circa 1930 fights off an alien armada in New York harbor.  Iowa launches a nuclear shell right _up_ the spout of a _HUGE_ alien battleship's cannon, detonating _INSIDE_ the dreadnaught and it was beautiful ( Read more... )

He [Obama] said that such worries would just feed “into fears about government. You hear some of these folks: ‘I need a gun to protect myself from the government. We can’t do background checks because the government’s going to come take my guns away.’ The government’s us. These officials are elected by you … I am constrained as they are constrained ( Read more... )

I forgot to write, and forgot to observe, the annual giving up of something for Lent.

Buy-bye social media.  See you in April.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

- Steve Martin

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff.  Got me a gold rolex.  Bruce ( Read more... )

I have a bicycle.

It is worth $20.

I want to sell it.

My state has a law that says all bicycles must be sold for no less than $40.

I am not going to sell my bicycle.

Related (youtube): Edgar the Exploiter is going to be all right.  Simon is screwed six ways to Sunday.

He's two.  Glides into the room.  Draped in Nonna's bathrobe.

Oh ... scary!  Are you a ghost?

Pause.  "I ... BAT-man ... cape!"

Exit, giggling.

Make your own soap, make your own bread.  Ammunition?  Ammunition.

Free, open, secure and convenient communications: Can we finally replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook?

Stross is some kind of Communist? And he finally has woken up to the consequences of his foolishness. Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship.

ssh-ident Wrapper ( Read more... )

About that Kill List Business ..

I am told that there are now righteous citizens who are now all het up about the Executive extra-judicially killing American citizens.  Straw-man summary ..

'I voted for Obama and this makes me mad.'

Suckers.

They knew before voting for that jack-wagon he was murdering citizens.  There were viable choices.  They voted ( Read more... )

Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer.

A complete waste of time.  A fascinating premise, which is wasted by the author. Cardboard characters. The world building is tone deaf and implausible.

Some guys can get away with this. This fella ain't one of them, at least not with this novel.

Joe Bob says he wants his time back.