Barack Obama will beat John McCain by at least 100 electoral votes this November.

What are they saying, Benny Lava? I hear Sylvester Stallone is going to be starring in a new Bollywood Movie. His nuanced phonemics should ...

Have you noticed how the right wing talking heads on TV and elsewhere have stopped hounding Obama about the fact that he didn't wear an ...

It is common knowledge that over the past few years, Republicans and other Family-First Fellows have been caught in some rather... uh... que...

The McCain campaign today sent Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas out to talk to the press about how Senator Barack Obama is nonpartisan, and n...

Question: What happens when you cross a 1964 Continental with a motorcycle? Answer: You get the 10-foot-long Yamaha Maxam 3000 Scooter. Un...

It would be 10 years before we would see a drop of oil from offshore drilling, and it would lower the cost of gas only 8 cents per gallon , ...

Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain will pick Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas to be his Vice President.

Take the test . First there are 20 basic questions about America found on a standard test for becoming an American citizen, and then 10 slig...

Even for those of you who are only taking a passing interest in the presidential election in America this year, the cannot-miss web site is ...

Ednil, Susan, and Epril all went out for the day. I had an off day of work. I got in a rather half-hearted morning of work, then had some in...

And when I say "tears right by my house", I mean missed me completely, skipped over me entirely. But everywhere else in The Philip...

Bet you thought you'd never have to listen to this again: Yes... for the rest of you: When I was young, I used to be quite the pianist. ...

Here are the rules: If you are running a presidential campaign, you can either opt to get some of the money for your campaign from the gover...

My work has been getting better and better. I've got some expenses coming up so now is as good a time as any to get on the ball. Maid ...

Today, Epril and I were invited to the wedding of one of her cousins, Kako and his new wife Aming, in Jasaan, with the reception held at the...

Barack Obama will pick John Edwards as his Vice President... assuming Al Gore says no. UPDATE: As usual, I'm ahead of the other great mi...

I suppose if life needs to suck for a certain period of time, one might as well cram it all into a weekend and get it over and done with. On...

The Sony Playstation 3 in full HDTV. The photo is in full resolution if you click on it to see the quality of the HD image. I received my Pl...

I'll be the first to admit that my days of knowing everything about popular music ended at about the same time that I packed my bags and...

I took the girls out to see "Iron Man" last night. Excellent movie if I do say so. My landlord... or the fairer half of my husban...

Today, at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton's campaign will present the following twisted arguments : (1) ...

The most recent great innovation in television has been TIVO... which is the love child of the VCR and the home computer, making the recordi...

Several of you readers poo-pooed my happy optimism that the piso might have finally bottomed out, even telling me to brace myself for 25-26 ...

Zamboanga is the mountainous state out on the Sulu archipelago wherein live the 200 or so teenage (and younger) members of Abu Sayyaf... the...

Here in the Philippines there are lots of little miniature vans from China used for deliveries and are particularly popular as "multica...

(I know it's Tuesday. As Epril would say, I'm on Filipino time.) Vinnie is negotiating with a stork on shipping costs for a baby sis...

In case you didn't know it... Koreans hate America . They really , really , really hate America .

With all of the illegal immigrants being chased off by crazy rednecks in pickup trucks driving along the border, American farmers are findin...

Still not much going on. Mike and Marissa Turner had their baby's Christening last Sunday at church, and a party afterwards. That'...

There are 6 ways to count the popular vote in the Democratic Primary. In 4 of them, Hillary is behind. In 2 of them, Hillary is ahead. Here ...

In matchups in the general election for President against the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain, it is quite true that Hillary Clinton...

What'll they think of next? Wind-powered boats? Of all the green technologies I'm excited about, solar power easily tops the list. O...

I can sum this movie up very simply: Our whip-carrying adventurer needs help getting out of quicksand, but manages to survive a nuclear expl...

It was Dimple's 8th birthday today. We bought her a cake and mom cooked enough spaghetti and pancit to feed the entire village. Dimple k...

This video may not be much to look at, until you think about it: What you are looking at is a manmade machine... a remote control toy car, ...

That's a 5.8% rise from 40.5 in 2½ months. I'm becoming optimistic that this may last. (The Thai Baht is turning around a bit too,...

"Think Locally F**K Globally" from Gogol Bordello... a band of Ukranian Gypsies playing punk rock with a lead singer who is a cros...

Life has been rather uneventful here lately. I go to bed at about 11:00, wake up at about 8:00. I surf the internet for a few hours while I ...

I'm quite sure that Republican bigwigs tune into this blog on a regular basis, so I'd like to offer a little advice: You know how yo...

Darrell Dickey spent a total of $45,000 to put solar panels on the roof of his garage, and buy an all-electric Toyota RAV4 EV. He took out ...

The Washington Post has a good article on how much racism people campaigning for Barack Obama are facing. Meanwhile, West Virginia — one of...

I used to have this weekly feature on my old blog . My sister would send cute pictures of her nephew, Vincent... one of the cutest babies on...

You wanted to know where your flying car of the future was? Coming right up . The Terrafugia Transition will go from road-ready to flight-re...

On Friday night, I went out to dinner at Laguna Café, which is one of Cagayan's fanciest Filipino restaurants. Nice enough place, and go...

I've been jonesing so bad for a sandwich. A sandwich here in Cagayan can be described thusly: Take two rather thick slices of sweetened ...

I was just sitting here reading about how the military dictatorship in Myanmar is making relief efforts for the millions of people within it...

I went out to lunch at the Turkish restaurant, Tourquoise, at SM today with Epril. After that, we did some food shopping at SM Grocery Stor...

OK, get this: Rush Limbaugh is this conservative/Republican radio talk show host in America. For the last month or so, he has been promoting...

Apparently when you grow up in the jungle in The Philippines, you have two ways to pass your time: You either learn how to sing, or you lea...

Sorry about not writing much lately. My priorities got out of whack, and I was focusing on work instead of where my attenion should be: Here...

Over the past 2 years, the Philippine currency, the Piso , has been strengthening against the weak U.S. dollar, as have pretty much all curr...