Hi.

It's been a while, and it's time to refresh everyone's memory on what is going on in the present day, and what to expect as a result of it if the GOP wins a majority in November.

Part 1:  1994 all over again.  Remember the "Contract With America?"  The Contract… Read full post »

The linked video is not pretty.  It is camera footage from a mistaken attack by US air cavalry against civilians on the ground.

Although I think it is within reason that the troops on board mistook cameras for weapons, and they certainly did see an RPG.  However, the free-fire nature of shoo… Read full post »

I have spent many weeks recently without hope.  This was specifically triggered by reading a paper on a recent climate study that found the Siberian permafrost had melted to a degree that methane plumes were observed releasing unexpectedly large quantities of the gas into the atmosphere.  T… Read full post »

Holy christ on a pogo-stick.  Apple's done it again!

With all the allure of a bottle of ripple and a bag of doughnuts, Jobs walked out on stage and sold the frothing followers his latest vision - BIGGER.  

Ohhh, a 9" screen, just like a Kindle DX, or a two-year-old… Read full post »

Good afternoon, sir.  I'm glad you're taking a moment to sit with me and go over this, and I appreciate your time.  I'm particularly grateful that you have the cabinet out of the room, as they seem particularly discomfited by the topics I am about to cover here.

I'll be… Read full post »

...which was placed in the comments of why it is a bad time to be a conservative, I have amended my feeling here.  My motive was correct, but my conclusion and the reasons for it were wrong.

On evaluation, my argument in #10 is based on a short-sighted assumption, that corporations… Read full post »

You know, the funny thing is that I used to consider myself a 'conservative,' until I was out of college and started thinking for a living.  Since then I've realized that 'conservative' equals a few things that I just don't dig.  I would hope those sane individuals who still think conservat… Read full post »

Over the last couple weeks (since New Year's Eve, actually), Prague has received more snow than it has seen in 20 years (not combined, just the snowiest year in two decades). 

I seem to be the only person in town enjoying this. 

Perhaps it's that I'm just still… Read full post »

At the request of someone close to me, I looked over the National Review website recently. 

I rapidly remembered why I don't go there.  The constant diatribes against [insert source here] for not being conservative enough, the abject worship of Palin (whose 15 minute fame-card should have b… Read full post »

I've sent this on via Representative Brown's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/henry.e.brown).  Anyone that wishes can freely copy this for their own use, if you so wish.

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Hi Henry - 

...about atheism.  I was going through the letters to the author Ada Calhoun's "I am a Closet Christian" and stumbled across these canards once again, and decided that it was time for me to write up a bit on each of the more popular ones that keep coming up.

So… Read full post »

Now, I have to say up front:  lately, my drink of choice has been bourbon.  Specifically "Knob Creek" (yes, yuck yuck, all you Englishpersons - for those of you not of the British Isles, "knob" is a UK colloquialism for "penis" on the same level as "dick" is in the USA).… Read full post »

The recent revelation that scientists can be human, demonstrated by the leak of a bunch of email from one of the UK's top climate change labs has, of course, drawn more than a little bit of attention.

As usual, the right-wing fuckwittery has already begun.  I've seen one friend on facebook… Read full post »

They don't know they're dumb, or being so (some are  normally quite smart).  They're everywhere.  Usually bearing a banner marked 'conservative.'

 I came to the conclusion a while ago that most  people calling themselves conservatives, aren't.  I am a conservative. … Read full post »

A little while ago Rep. Alan Grayson stirred up a bit of a controversy by calling Republicans out on the House floor with a statement that “The GOP plan for health insurance reform is: don’t get sick.  If you do get sick, die quickly.” 

Needless to say, the… Read full post »