Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Vanity Fair has a profile of John Ashcroft coming out, that’s probably only flattering if you think George Bush is God’s chosen one. When you read this, remember that this man is the Attorney General of the United States.
Quite frankly, there’s very little more that I can say here, so I’ll let things speak for […]

So I’ve been checking the world news lately, and that means it’s MLP time.
First, in local news, it still really sucks to be in Halifax right now. The THUMP we got hit by Thursday has officially become the greatest chunk of snowfall we’ve gotten hit by in at least a hundred years, and this is […]

Don’t be a slave to others’ opinions and just vote the way your party tells you to or the way the paper tells you to! Be of a more independent and inquisitive mind, and vote the way Warrior Tang tells you to!

I promised you that I would focus on TEH WEIRD way back at the beginning of this blog, and so far I haven’t really managed to follow through, being too focused on Bush, Ruin, Iraq, Space, Hope, Technology and other, more immediate topics of concern.
I need to start rectifying that. And with that in mind, […]

Something was pointed at this morning, over at John Quiggin’s weblog:
No one much has noticed, but what will probably turn out to be the biggest geopolitical event of the year took place last weekend. I’m referring to the announcement by Kofi Annan of a referendum on the reunification of Cyprus to be held on 21 […]

We’ll start this one with a little good news, I think.
Things now are set in motion that cannot be undone: Now that the city of San Francisco has successfully married a whole bunch of gay people and not been smited by God for insolence or failing to selectively uphold Leviticus or whatever, others are getting […]

There have been some wonderful summing up of Howard Dean’s effect on and departure from the Democratic Primary around the blogosphere at Burnt Orange Report, Collective Sigh, Cal Pundit, Daily Kos, and this wonderful shakespeare riff by Lambert at Corrente. However, I wanted to talk about my impressions.
I’m sorry the Governor is going, I […]

Making fun of the willfully stupid: Adam Yoshida has reinstated comments on his blog (And no, I’m not going to link it; I refuse to give the little weasel the satisfaction.) so feel free to drop by and inquire as to the status of his application to the Canadian Armed Forces. Or just taunt him […]

Here’s the full report from the Union of Concerned Scientists I mentioned last night. It’s a PDF, and weighs in at about forty-five pages, but it also appears to be worth reading. It’s nice to see some shots at the administration’s stance on technology which are both scathing and long overdue.
More later, on the off […]

I’m in a bit of an MLP mood tonight. That means you’re going to be in one too!
In scientific news, this has been stumbled over during my bidaily perusal of Cyborg Democracy’s weblog, which the more fervent in the technophile crowd ought to be reading, among other places. The story itself discusses the birth of […]