Yay!!!!!  I’m so excited I can hardly think about it.
To Pres. George H.W. Bush. and all you NeoCon, kleptocratic, law-breaking, theocratic, Dominionist thugs.  Good riddance.  Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out the door!  I hope I never see you all again on Capital Hill.
To Elizabeth Dole.  Goodbye!  You [...]

Bloom County was one of the defining features of my high school years.  So much so that I received a hand-made book of Bloom County comics cut from the paper daily for several months as a Christmas present from one of my best friends my senior year.  I still have it on my bookshelf. [...]

Well damn! Things are getting rowdy here in Cackalacky.  A reporter was beaten at a McCain-Palin rally at Elon University on October 17th.  Obama  got an ugly reception at a BBQ joint in Fayetteville on the 19th and tires on at least 30 vehicles were slashed outside an Obama rally at the Crown colliseum the [...]

Colin Powell, retired General, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,  impresses me.  Even after his failure to live up to his values by stumping the Iraq war to the U.N. for Pres. Bush he impresses me. His endorsement of Barack Obama this past weekend may be the [...]

While watching the last presidential debate, my girlfriend said she wanted a “That One” T-Shirt in response to John McCain’s repeated use of the phrase to identify Barack Obama.  It didn’t take long for someone to answer the need.

A friend on one of the IRC channels I frequent shared a link to the EVStrength.com blog.  It contains a very nice graph aggregating the statewide polls from Electoral-Vote.com, updated daily, showing the electoral vote standings for McCain and Obama.  The graph features several levels based on the percantage lead the candidate has in each [...]

Blatantly swiped from John Scalzi:
Spotted in various places on the Internet, in response to Governor Palin’s “community organizer” jab at Obama:
“Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

I hope someone at FEMA is paying attention this time. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone about to be plowed over by it.

Here it is.

Why is the Defense Department and Bush Administration even going through the motions of the military commissions for the Guantanamo Bay detainees if they are seriously talking about not releasing them after they are acquitted or have served out their sentences:
Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said it has always been the Defense Department’s position that [...]