Bam! Right on cue! To follow-up on my last post, John McCain went ahead and accused Obama of playing the race card. An accusation like this is the granddaddy of resentment stoking, and honestly, it seems like it almost came a little early.
The line in question? Obama in Missouri:
“what they’re going to try to [...]

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If you’ve been holding off on making a decision on who to vote for until Ludacris weighed in, you’re now officially out of excuses. In case you’re wondering, he’s an Obama supporter.
The song is pretty much boilerplate Ludacris, which honestly makes it heads and shoulders above any of the other Obama-boosting hip hop songs [...]

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It just occurred to me today that I’m now friends with more lawyers than I am waiters.
Edit: This is awesome if I ever need legal advice, but crappy if I want free dessert. Whenever one door closes, I guess another opens.

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  The Lilypad is where rich, smart people will live after we all drown. It’s basically a self-sufficient, artificial, floating island capable of supporting about 50,000 people. The point is that when water levels rise and everything’s drowning, these self-contained buoyant cities will float happily and peacefully until, I dunno, people start having babies and [...]

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(I like to post news and thoughts on alternative energy, but I’m not the smartest guy when it comes to the hows and whats of practical applications. Mostly I just read, say, “that’s neat” or “that’s stupid”, and write about it like I know what I’m talking about. Luckily, I have very smart friends who [...]

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Just for fun this week- every comment left here gets the author entered into a drawing to win a free copy of Sometimes You Gotta Fight The Bear, my 2006 poetry collection. The more comments, the more chances to win, as they say in the scratch-ticket commercials.

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Andrew Klavan had a truly batshit (that’s a pun, there won’t be more) editorial in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend in which he argued that The Dark Knight vindicates the Bush administration as noble heroes, left to defend a world that doesn’t understand them. It’s absurd on its face, of course- Batman is [...]

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Seen on the condom machine in the men’s room at the Wood Green Cineworld in London before last night’s screening of The Dark Knight:
for refund, insert baby or aids

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