bad week to quit sniffing glue

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches […]

Doo-do-do-do, feeling Gloomy

The state of the world is never far from my mind, not because I, personally, can do a whole lot about it, but because, well, it sucks eggs a lot of times. I ran across an excellent comment at The Oil Drum the other day, and asked Joe if I could quote him. If you […]

The sound of thunder?

Bush went on TV a while ago and said the usual stupid things. Like this: “The only thing standing between these vast resources and the American people is action from Congress,” he said. “The sooner Congress lifts the ban, the sooner we can get these resources from the ocean floor to the refineries to the […]