One of the comics that I read is called PhDComics ("Piled Higher and Deeper"). Originally a student strip from Stanford, and now grown into a franchise of its own. Go here to see how the author reports on our 2008 presidential election, as he experienced while on tour in Europe.…
[rant warning!] Wait, who's dead? Three of the bastards who carried out the Sari club bombing in Bali in 2002. They've been sitting on death row since then and within the last 24 hours were shot dead by an Indonesian state death squad. Their coffins, predictably, were paraded through the…
I did not stay up for the speeches. I waited. I just now watched Obama’s acceptance speech. Not a victory speech. An acceptance speech. There is a difference. He hasn’t really won anything. Yet. I cannot remember the last time I felt a tingle run through me at the words…
Well, it was a dead heat. 1,442,613 vs 1,436,745 (a difference of 5,868 or 0.4%). There was a Missouri Nader vote of 17,769 that arguably made the difference. But Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida pushed the mulatto Hawaiian over the top of the elderly Panamanian by a resounding 0.1% of the…
In the dim light of the bar, it seemed like such a good idea. Things had been dull, though financially there'd been some improvement. Time to relax, maybe have a fling. The stranger sauntered over, holding a longneck, and leaned against the counter, smiled, and said "Hi. Come here often?"…