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Who’s the latest victim in the Democrats’ war on the “Republican Culture of Corruption” in D.C.? Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson, who was caught on videotape taking a $100,000 bribe from undercover agents. Most of the money was later found in the freezer of his Washington home.
Astute readers will recall that this is the […]

I guess if Marion Barry could keep doing it, who are we to write off Ray Nagin? In a move that stunned me, New Orleans voters sent School Bus Ray back to the mayor’s office while Mitch Landrieu, who almost everyone thought would win, goes home just a few points shy.
Harry Shearer said it […]

See that chunk of granite? The big one over there with the moss on the north side? That’s where I’ve been living the last few weeks.
More precisely, under it.
Because that’s the only excuse I have for not realizing that, about eleven days ago, Bungie officially announced that they are developing, for 2007 release, […]

Total Spore has a comprehensive recap of the Spore presentation at E3, with plenty of screenshots, video, new information, and a link to the newly-udated official SPORE site. Check it out.

It’s as if there hasn’t been a decent movie made in the last fifteen years.
Tonight, I browsed my local mega-super-video-rental store, sifting through rack after rack, aisle after aisle, section after section, finding thousands of examples of steaming feces digitized and forever preserved to plastic disc so that, centuries from now, archaeologists can decode, analyze, […]

I didn’t take part in the CSS Reboot but I was inspired by it.
A couple of weeks of fumbling, and I’m still at nothing. So I’ve decided to start over with a new theme as a base - complete with trendy chunky footer - and then give it a new skin.
I’m probably […]

The big buzz around this year’s upcoming E3 is for a game developed by Electronic Arts‘ Wil Wright called Spore.

You start as a spore (hence the working title, “Spore”) which grows.. and evolves.. introducing you to an editor in which you can modify each generation of creatures. But the key concept here is that you […]

Dear Google,
Sitting here in front of my laptop with browser windows open all over the place and hot-key access to all your features, I am completely and utterly smitten. No other search engine does for me what you do, from the quality of your results to the modifiers that let me customize my search […]

Riding in a vehicle operated by anyone in the Kennedy clan continues to be a serious hazard to public safety and public morals. U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, son of the notoriously lethal driver Ted Kennedy, crashed into a barricade at the Capitol Building sometime around 3.a.m Thursday.

The two officials said officers at […]

The Thing In The Crib, via Jeff:

I edged open the door of the darkened chamber with trepidation. The stench of human effluvia was overpowering. The light from the portal fell upon a raised cage of ancient wood, not quite square, and decorated with icons of some lost tribe that worshipped beasts. The sigils celebrated the […]

Today is May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, since the cold war best known to U.S. citizens as the day communist nations celebrate their social and military accomplishments on behalf of their citizens.
Today is also the day that immigration activists here in the United States have chosen to put on large-scale demonstrations of […]