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game over On the other hand, after reading this , I'm a bit less-concerned about Global Warming, since the Nuclear Winter should nicely ...

Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Oscar to Bush Stunning Reversal for Former Veep Just days after former Vice President Al Gore receiv...

OK, how many of you, upon hearing that a suicide bomber struck the air-base where Cheney was meeting, and that he was unharmed, silently mut...

I have one of those gizmos where you attach a bicycle and can use it as an exercise bike - bought it from a craigslist posting a couple of m...

read this . Ralph is right, and we all know it. The enemy is not his 'ego' but the corporate Monster he has fought for 40 years. R...

I don't care. As every lover of film knows, these are meaningless. Again and again, superior films either lose to inferior films, or a...

Last night, Karen and I went to a friend's house for the evening. She had invited about a dozen various people she knows - a couple of ...

Interesting . And, in that light, we have this . Bread and circuses - the best policy for any regime that has something to hide. I suppose...

After spending five days in ice-cold, geriatric land (Wisconsin). My Mom was doing better than I expected, and we managed to celebrate her ...

After flying most of the day, I arrived in Milwaukee late in the afternoon, picked up my rental car, and headed off onto the frozen freeway....

While scanning channels last night, I was amazed to see that they are still flogging the Anna Nicole Smith story, as something we must all b...

Bush and Cheney as Thelma and Louise . Unfortunately, the rest of us are trapped in the back seat, while they are deciding when to floor it....

Ray McGovern is a perceptive commentator and this is pretty darn disturbing.

Actually did some creative productive work yesterday, but was totally wiped out by dinner time. It's OK. Saturday morning - the sky is ...

On Tuesday night, I started coughing. Now it's Friday morning, and I spent virtually all day Wednesday and Thursday in bed, listening to...

Don't ask why , just send your kids and shut up.

simply amazing . I think about the Edward G Robinson character in 'Soylent Green', and fear that what we experience as 'everyday...

Read this ! Meanwhile, we had a fabulous evening, listening to a too-short set (there were 2 warm-up acts, the 2nd of which was far too lon...

Ah, Americans . Quo vadis? Meanwhile, here 's a great Huffington Post piece, where the energy proposals in the SOTU speech are tweezed ...

It may not surprise you to know that I have been maintaining an Excel file of all the computers I have ever owned, along with their specs. ...