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I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
I’ve had days like that.

I’m about a week late on this, but it’s worth it: Confessions of a Political Junkie » Ten Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill You

David Shribman notes that today, far from being a day we should venerate the imperial presidency, is a day meant to honor our first president - a man who rejected kingship in favor of democracy.
It is a little-known fact that today’s holiday has never been called President’s Day in the law - it has been, […]

How is it possible that someone like John Dvorak has been writing a nationally-published computer column for decades when he produces such totally indefensible intellectual fluff?
Will Apple Adopt Windows?
Bigger companies than Apple have dropped their proprietary OSs in favor of Windows—think IBM and OS/2. IBM also jumped on the Linux bandwagon over its own AIX […]

Not that anyone’s surprised, but there’s another major e-mail faux pas making the rounds. (Hm. I originally typed “e-mal” by mistake - perhaps a better term for this.) Again, not that anyone’s surprised, but this one comes from a recent Boston-area law school grad tanking her job interview. Here’s the […]

Tonight’s episode featured Clancy Brown as an intelligence agent of some kind, named Joe Inman. I first noticed Clancy in his role as the Kurgan in the movie Highlander. Since then, I’ve been vaguely aware that he’s been an unusually prolific actor, but little else about him.
Turns out Clancy’s a very interesting […]

Here’s my predictions for tonight’s ep of Lost:
We know from the previews and the official podcast that:

The Losties capture one of the others in one of Danielle Rousseau’s traps
Sayid totures the Other for information
The timer runs all the way down when the Losties fail to hit the button on time

I can’t say what flows from […]

The day’s almost over. The flowers you ordered? Didn’t come. The card you got? Lame. The cute little custom-order teddy-bear you heard about on the radio? Everyone else got one too.
So what’s a guy to do on Valentines Day to redeem himself? Spend a little time thinking about […]

If he grew long hair, got a few tattoos, and played a little guitar, my good friend and Florida legislator Adam Hasner would look very much like former Creed frontman and current solo artist Scott Stapp.
I’m sure each of them is tanking their lucky stars that they didn’t choose the other’s path.

There is something fundamentally wrong with your view of God if you think He wants people to die because of a cartoon.
Speak out? Fine. Protest? Fine. Threaten death or actually kill people? Better re-examine whether or not you’re a true follow of a “faith of peace.”
UPDATE: Comments are not […]

Seattle looks like it’s finally found the keys to its offense and are taking it for a drive. Ooops, except for the inopportune holding penalty. And then a “huge sack” by someone who hasn’t gotten a sack since 2003. And then an interception. Ok, they found the keys and handed them […]

Willie Parker runs 75 yards for a Steelers TD in the opening moments of the half, and Cowher still looks pissed. What, did he call a passing play?
Or maybe Cowher doesn’t like his players setting records - that was only the longest rushing touchdown in Superbowl history.
Hines Ward’s hands - the vacuum that doesn’t […]

Don’t special teams drill that whole “knock the ball out of the end zone” move?
The Bus has now entered the game.
Not necessarily by coincidence, the Steelers have finally broken the thick, thick ice protecting the first down marker.
Who wants to buy Rolling Stones tunes from Sprint? Not me.
Big Ben finally settles down and concentrates […]

Three and out - not a good opener for the Seahawks. Gotta watch those penalties.
I have hidden several bottles of beer around this website, savages.
As if the “king” weren’t freaky enough - who wants a gangbang burger?
How did this game become a defensive battle? Steelers, three and out. Lousy field position can […]

I’m sticking with my predictions of a couple weeks ago: “AFC beats NFC, no matter who makes it.”
This will be a fantastic game, and although I think the Steelers will win, they’ll have to play their best game ever. I’m also rooting for the Steelers, mainly because a lot of my close friends […]

Blame Tom for the tagging by implication.
Four Jobs I’ve Had

Food Service Drone: I won’t say where, but I’ll never eat there again.
Attorney General: Florida State had a very well-developed student government - I got paid and everything.
Congressional Aide: underpaid, underutilized, but once you get outside the Beltway it definitely […]

Gentlemen, for those of you who aren’t afraid to take sloppy seconds off rocker Ritchie Sambora and think they can fill the very large, um, shoes of rocker Tommy Lee, take note: Heather Locklear is suddenly single.
Possible winning strategy: grab a guitar and learn to play Warrant’s Cherry Pie.

“Please note: You’re not allowed to call yourselves followers of a ‘religion of peace’ if you riot and make death threats over a political cartoon.”
Via The Shape of Days.

Capitol Police have apologized for ejecting Cindy Sheehan and, um, Mrs. Young - did she keep her first name when she got married, or is that where C.W. “Bill” Young got the extra one from? I never saw it reported - from the STFU SOTU address this week.
“Neither guest should have been confronted about […]

Last night was President Bush’s State of the Union Address. Since, like Peggy Noonan, I find these speeches soulless and boring to the point of physical pain, counpounded by the Repetitive Wince Syndrome induced by the President’s repeated mangling of simple words - such as “nuclear,” “Congress” or “ranch” - I thought last night […]