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Tag Archives: Events of the Day
Wowza!
You’d think that after doing the whole blogging and social networking thing for as long as I’d have, I wouldn’t be surprised that a tweet I quickly tossed off after reading about what a cold-hearted son-of-a-bitch Mitt Romney is actually … Continue reading
In Memoriam 9-11-01: “The City of Dead Works” and “Elegy”
I re-post this every year on this date. It is the first piece of fiction I wrote after the awful events of 9-11-01. “The City of Dead Works” There is never any rest for me, the Ferryman of the Dead. … Continue reading
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“The Martians will be us.”
Images of Mars-fall: If we were to cut our defense budget by, say, a third, and instead of using that money for tax cuts we were to put every penny of it into our budget for space exploration, I think … Continue reading
Is the ‘A’ for ‘Asshole’?
I haven’t been following the whole Chick-Fil-A thing much, because as far as I know, there’s no Chick-Fil-A location anywhere near Casa Jaquandor. (Actually, I’m not even sure about that. Hold on while I look…nope, nearest one is in Erie, … Continue reading
My only thought on the Colorado Shootings
Actually, this isn’t my only thought on the subject, but it’s the only one that I feel like posting, as my remaining thoughts are conflicted, given my longstanding general support of Second Amendment rights (although I don’t rise nearly to … Continue reading
When in the course of human events (repost)
This is a repost from July 4, one year ago today. Happy birthday, America! Here’s a really weird story. It’s so weird, I’m not sure the historians didn’t make it up out of whole cloth. It seems that around 235 … Continue reading
Every building’s sacred….
So they want to tear down this building: That’s the old Bethlehem Steel headquarters building in Buffalo. It’s quite an attractive structure. The problem is that it’s been unoccupied for more than thirty years. And what’s more, it’s not exactly … Continue reading
Copyright Math
I really need to watch TED talks more often. Here, science fiction author Robert Reid delves a little into the mathematical claims of the movie and music industries when they rail against piracy. I always love when big numbers are … Continue reading
I hate casinos
Yeah, that’s pretty blunt, but there it is: I can’t stand casinos. I don’t understand the appeal at all. I mean, I understand once I find myself inside one. It’s hard to resist all those flashing lights and cheering people … Continue reading
Can we have ACORN back now?
Politics below the fold…. SamuraiFrog on Andrew Breitbart: I wonder if even half of the conservative bloggers who are aghast and dismayed at the number of tweets celebrating Breitbart’s death called for the same kind of respect for the dead … Continue reading