Featured on Boing Boing today. These are mine and live in my cube at work. I won them a couple of years ago in a costume contest!


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Last night I was left to my own devices as my grandson and daughter went to the Seattle Torchlight Parade ( Read more... )

Sometimes it seems like McCain is pandering harder than a speed-crazed pimp with a stable of twenty-dollar hookers. His latest? He feels Michigan's pain...No-one who has seen downtown Detroit can doubt that Michigan is going through hard times. But I dare any committed Republican to show me the real doctrinal difference between what McCain just ( Read more... )

Some people are wondering what happened to the Obama they supported during the primaries? Meanwhile John Scalzi demonstrates why he gets all the link love with a little rant about who gets to call who an elitistAs always, I'm the guy who hates the leading politicians on both sides. That means I get to say "I told you so." when people complain about ( Read more... )

Kirk vs. Picard. Are there parallels in religious doctrinal debates?

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So there I was at Penguicon for three days. In that space of time I never touched a boob. (Not even my own as far as I can remember.) Nor did I see the infamous buttons. (Not that I knew to look for them ( Read more... )

You know, just because a GPS says go this way doesn't mean you have to go that way. Especially driving a large bus. Or, in the words of the GPS manufacturer, "Stoplights aren't in our databases, either, but you're still expected to stop for stoplights.This little incident occurred in Seattle's own Washington Arboretum and, admittedly, you don't ( Read more... )

Atheist and evolution blogger P.Z. Myers was ejected from a screening of a pro-creationism film because the director didn't want him to attend. The punch-line is delicious!

There are so many things you have to deal with when a spouse passes away. Bank accounts, titles, bills. Anything that is in the spouses name or in both names is affected. Even mundane things like car insurance ( Read more... )