I did something on this blog last night that I've never had to do in over 12 years of blogging: I had to take down a blog post. True: ...

I've liked Ron Paul forever... or at least since 2007 when I first mentioned him on my blog. He's the only libertarian conservativ...

Epril finally (FINALLY) got her visa. No reason for the 1.5 month delay was given nor apology offered. I had actually called the office of...

... when the most conservative newspaper in the country, The Wall Street Journal, has to come out and say the Republicans are idiots . And ...

My libertarian sensibilities were offended when I heard that the government was outlawing incandescent light bulbs. Turns out, I was just b...

President Obama's chances of reelection are approximately 100%. About 25% of that probability comes from the Republican primary in wh...

CDO has been pummeled by one of the first typhoons to make it over the mountains in decades, and the results are catastrophic . Due to ...

Bad news: Epril won't be arriving on the 13th as hoped. Her visa has not yet been approved, and the soonest it could arrive in Epril...

When Mitt Romney's campaign put out an anti-Obama advertisement in which Obama was accused of saying something damaging/stupid, when it ...

The Huffington Post has a very interesting (and disturbing) cover story today about the increased use of "SWAT" teams (with raids...

Yeah... sorry for waiting for more than a month for an update. Everything has been tossed up in the air and is spinning: a slow motion flo...

Apparently a police officer in Alabama didn't get the memo that the state's new immigration law is only to be applied to brown peop...

William Shatner shows us why he has been, is, and will continue to be the coolest guy in Hollywood: Watch as he pours all his energy and cr...

Throughout history, all around the world, if you ever needed to figure out which side of an issue the history books would eventually determi...

Heh . Liberal: A person who should be rounded up and shot but not really. Marxism: A political and economic philosophy developed by Karl...

Kevin Drum at Mother Jones sums up 6 fundamental lies about the economy that are demonstrably false. I'll force you to click on the...

Based on what I'm seeing in this video with Google's driverless car program, we should see the first self-driving cars in showrooms ...

Sometimes, you get an idea in your head that you cannot quite put into words. Then I read the " Open Letter To That 53% Guy ", an...

John Stewart has some more fun, showing endless clips of Republican politicians urging Americans to "take to the streets", to ...

It does not get any worse or impressive than this. Prayers to the family of British driver Dan Wheldon who died.

1980 to 2011, natural disasters in the United States Red - seismologic (earthquakes / volcano) Green - meteorologic (storms / blizzards...

The U.S. Ambassador to The Philippines rubbed his host country the wrong way when he cited the statistic, "40% of male tourists come t...

I finally figured out why the Republicans are trying to roll back banking regulations to the way the regulations were right before the banki...

Epril's visa package is now in the American Embassy in Manila, and they have contacted her with the date for her interview:  November 8t...

John Stewart pieces together how Sarah Palin scammed lots of people: SarahPAC, which is in essence, Sarah Palin herself, sent out a mailer ...

My friend Mike recently was extolling the "best liqueur in the world", an herb-infused scotch called "Glayva". Being...

There are Thai minds that really function at this level , especially male Thai minds, especially when drunk — which is often. Thai man kil...

America's 25 most dangerous cities (highest violent crime per capita): Flint, MI. Detroit, MI. St. Louis, MO. New Haven, CT. Memp...

Presidential candidate Rick Perry is getting a lot of heat for having had a ranch (inherited from his father, name changed decades ago) call...

Conservative pundits were having fits last month after they (mis)read Michelle Obama's lips at a September 11 Memorial event, and claim...

Google Maps now has "fly-by" mode as part of its "get directions". Step 1: Go to Google Maps Step 2: Select "...

Some good points have been made regarding two recent "wins" against terrorism that made me stop and think. First, the "death...

How to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds. This works so well I almost think they are playing a joke on us. I'm makin...

Find one thing to do, and do it better than anybody else.

Blogger redesigned the entire appearance of its blog publishing software. I suspect my mother will have a fit trying to get used to it. Be...

Seriously . It is not often that one of the fundamental laws of the universe as we know it is broken. While studying neutrino oscillations ...

Surprisingly, spending more money on education is not the most important thing, according to the Economist . The main conclusion of the art...

How about the man who literally defines himself by his take-no-prisoners, budge-not-an-inch, stick-to-the-guns approach to policy making wri...

It's true, ya know. In the first September 6th Republican Presidential Primary Debate, the crowd of Republican supporters gave the big...

I just adore the look of this car, the Fisker Karma , a hybrid sedan (similar to the Nissan Leaf in that the only thing the gasoline engine ...

Watch in order. These kids take a while to get their trick right... but when they do...

I promised you video of me playing piano, and here it is. Sorry about the sound quality. First generation electronic piano, little microph...

When a nobel-prize winning economist comes on and says, in effect, "There it is. That was the bad sign that we've been waiting for...

It's been terrible weather here in Florida: Rain and clouds almost all day, every day, since I got back from New York. Uncle Bob says ...

This will provide you with half a dozen smiles at least .

I was out at the beach, wading back to shore in about navel-deep water. About 20 feet in front of me closer to the beach was a dark patch o...

The vocally anti-gay Republican Senator from Puerto Rico just resigned from office after he put a photo of his culo (his actual culo... not ...

It's been a hectic 2 months, to put it mildly. Then I threw in a trip to New York to visit my family on top of it. About the biggest...

I'm back in Florida now, having flown right past the hurricane as it was making landfall in North Carolina. I'm going to go out...

My sister and her son Vincent and daughter Evie enjoying the pool at Watkins Glen State Park. Evie having fun out on the grass in the b...