Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America's most trusted newscaster? Oh, yeah!
Shatner does Palin on Late Night with Conan O'Brian.
Song that ear-wormed me earlier this week, Almost Human by Voltaire. I blame Blue.
AT-AT bed for your little ones. But where's MINE?
Our bodies glow. I feel like I should get a 'told ya so'.
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Interrogation of Obama's geek cred at the Radio and TV Correspondent's Dinner: long and hilarious.

Also, I'm going to have to start reconfiguring a part of my headspace to keep track of shame. I'm glad I took it out of my headspace, but it's been long enough now and my memory is bad enough that I'm forgetting to account for it in other people. ( Read more... )

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America is addicted to oil - even George W. Bush says so. But now we are an addict that robs other countries at gunpoint to support our habit. And Russia, the neighborhood kid that always competes with us and follows our dumbass lead on the one-upmanship, is following our example with Georgia.

Good gods, you guys, we're that country. I love US, ( Read more... )

Senator Barack Obama
Obama's Senatorial voting record, a blog supporting his campaign with awesome links: Actually, I Think We Can, and head-to-head poll results showing him as the strongest candidate on either side of the fence.
Also a YouTube video, a LOLcat-for-Obamasite, and an explanation of why the video is awesome and such things are solid ( Read more... )

I have two things: a solution to the gay marriage dilemma, and a statistical bit of evidence on homosexuality ( Read more... )

Danforth Quayle is not a bad guy, but I blame him for so much. In showing the world that men of little eloquence can hold high American office, he set a dangerous precedent. He enabled future generations of the garbled to achieve dreams they should never achieve, namely the presidency of George W. Bush ( Read more... )

Why do I read things that make me cry? Because it needs to be done. The standard reaction to horror, fear, or pain is to flinch and look away.
It's one thing to intellectualize the pain of others, and another to experience the immediacy of the fight against despair being waged in other hearts than your own. Suspension of disbelief in fiction is ( Read more... )

The Q'ran, the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita: all these works are meant to be taken as works of non-fiction, based on the world and actual revelations/experiences had by the authors about that world's origins. As Kathy Mar sings, "Humans wrote the Bible, God wrote the world." And that's deep and everything, but as a corollary it also means that the ( Read more... )

This is the military-industrial complex taking away your privacy.

"A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my ( Read more... )