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Super-Me


Reading this article in the latest UU World, I was struck by just how true the central point is. I recognized the thought process immediately. I do have some leftover childhood imagination, and I find that almost everything I do with a margin of satisfaction has some of this kind of thinking behind [...]

I can has


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Not a bad way to spend the summer


I wouldnt’ think.

Wrong


Mike Turk says McClellan is getting beat up for telling what everybody already knows.
Well I’ve got news for him. HE may not care about that last 28%, but some of us do. Let’s hope they’re too busy reading Townhall.com to notice this.

At the Death House Door


We’re probably going to have to wait on this to hit DVD. I doubt a Chattanooga theatre will run it.  But anyway… the trailer will follow.  Not before a note about a recent study re-confirming the ongoing racism in the death culture. Nothing in the study or in my own experience helps me discern [...]

T-T-T Declares Obama Winner of Pledged Delegate Race


… we do so belatedly, because we have been busy with other things. We only speak for smijer, though we expect jadarm & Buck concur.
Excluding Michigan and Florida, Obama has won the pledged delegate race. With 86 pledged delegates remaining unsecured, Obama leads Clinton by 161 delegates. If Clinton wins all of the uncommitted pledged [...]

Pass This Along If You Agree. If You Don’t, Simply Delete


… The post title, or a variant thereof, is the tagline of many an e-mail forward I receive on various of my smijer e-mail addresses.
I approach this with a certain level of trepidation, because every time I write about e-mail chain forwards, I expect everyone to instantly recognize what I’m talking about. I must [...]

If our orbit wuz elliptical


We’d all be dead.
Oh no! Wait! This is terrible news. I guess now that we’re all dead, biologists will never explain how our feet evolved the ability to stick to gravity!
But, seriously, folks… It’s pretty obvious that the line of reasoning that the producers of Expelled mangle so badly is the “fine tuning” argument, and [...]

Hilarious, except for the stakes…


If he wasn’t going to be the next President, this McCain gaffe would be absolutely the most hysterical campaign mistake I can remember. This coming from a candidate for President of the United States, or in the new parlance, Commander in Chief. The sole executor and protector of national security. This is a [...]

Tsunami in a Teapot


After the House race / special election in Mississippi that everyone is talking about, there is definitely a Democratic surge in the air for November. Possible veto-proof majorities in either house or both.
Too bad the Executive has All Power and Authority now.
Look, I may have been overly pessimistic about the Presidential [...]