Live from the Nuke Free Zone

As I listen to the first debate between John Kerry and George Bush, I sense that my preconceptions color my assessment of the two men’s performance and must acknowledge that it is in fact possible that John Kerry has not wiped the floor with the President of the United States. I then check out […]

My call: Kerry dominated this one, mainly by just looking like he had his shit together. He was calm, collected and managed to answer questions without screwing up. Bush, on the other hand, spoke very poorly (even for a man famed for not being the best public speaker) and didn’t seem to have a […]

Via JWZ, it’s Presidential Debate Bingo! Hit reload. It changes.

Just turned on the debates in the middle of them, and Bush is getting his butt whipped. Kerry is strong and forceful in calling for a stronger military with more special forces, while Bush is umming and ahhing and having trouble putting two phrases together without pausing as if he’s reading his lines for the […]

Despite the best efforts of the evil, hairless savannah-monkeys of Sol III, I remain alive, and here I am to prove it by actually crawling out from under my nice, comfortable rock to post to you all this evening.
So what’s up? Well, as you’ve seen a few hours ago, I’ve been voluntold by the […]

SpaceShipOne makes a successful first flight in competition for the X-Prize
Brother Zibblsnrt or one of the other Zoners will have more analysis on this later, or if all else fails I’ll do a dissection of the whole race for the X-Prize once SpaceShipOne does its second flight, but for now the picture says everything it […]

So, yours truly has volunteered to man a polling place on Election Day out here in Redstateville, California. And I mention this in a chat channel a lot of the Zoners hang out on, and get this response from Calculus:
[18:06] * Calculus suddenly ponders dressing up in a Clippy costume…”Hi! It looks like […]

I increasingly wonder if I have not by some freak of probability been flung into a strange hallucinatory construct taking its characteristics from the fiction I enjoy reading. Perhaps it mimics an alternate universe wherein the local Western civilization never came up with many of the common aphorisms of my own, like “Those who […]

If I laugh, just a little bit…
So, the United States government stopped an evil Islamic terrorist from getting to Washington, DC tonight. They took the plane down in Bangor, Maine, pulled the terrorist off the flight, and shipped him back to his home country. All in a day’s work in keeping the country […]

The newspaper I tend to read on a daily basis, the Chronicle-Herald, is usually pretty good for a local paper. They attract a variety of good writers, the most brilliant political cartoonist you or I will ever encounter, and a good variety of subjects given even-handed treatment. In short, I consider it a worthy article, […]