I grew this once in another life. It was a frightening experience.
If it wasn't for Halloween, this grotesque and useless vegetable would be extinct. And good riddance.
Let's review.
Somewhere dotted about the fruited plains of America something like lebenty-leben gazillion acres of pumpkins are planted every damn year. Then care and water and chemicals are slathered on these fibrous tumors causing them grow big. Some very big. Some so big that they can be hoisted into the air and dropped onto a car and obliterate said automobile.
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What an enormous number of sheaths!
Isn't the kernel soon coming to light?
I'm blessed if it is! To the innermost centre,
It's nothing but sheaths - each smaller and smaller -
Nature is witty!
- Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, Act V, Sc.5
When you peel off the layers of signifying and symbolizing, of blathering and bamboozling, Obama lacks in the elemental qualities of manliness necessary to be President. Obama is like the onion in Peer Gynt. Take away the layers there's nothing at the core.
The dyed-finger idea could go a long way to eliminating voter fraud in America.
[Note: In the last week or so, I've heard -- here and elsewhere -- some defeatist carping about "not voting." Worse still is the plan of voting for someone you think is bad in order to make the country worse so that, at some moment in time, it learns from the experience. Both poses -- and poses they are -- strike me as malicious and childish. And I think of this conversation with Paul on Election Day in 2004. He knew what faction and party politics brought. He knew it from hard experience.... ]
Once a week Paul and his sister come to my house to clean it. They're recent arrivals to America from Russia and work at cleaning houses in order to support themselves and take courses at night at Irvine's community college. They're part of a larger group of Russians that live, not in the astronomically expensive beach towns along Southern California's solid gold coast, but inland where life is considerably cheaper.
Every Tuesday Paul and his sister arrive in a beat-up old Toyota, haul their vacuums and supplies in and set to work with a single-minded thoroughness at their job. They're in and out in an hour and off to another house. If they're ever feeling down, I've never seen it. They're pleased to be working and they work hard.
Paul's sister has better English than he does. His is spotty to say the least, but it improves. We all try to spend a few minutes talking in English since they are keen to learn the vernacular. We once spent 45 minutes going over the inflections of "Too cool for school," "Whatever," and the inner meaning of "Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." I like to think I'm giving them insights into English not available in the classroom.
But this is Laguna Beach, a latter-day hippie stronghold of liberal socialists griping as they sit in homes with an average value of $1,300,000, and so Paul and I don't ever speak of politics. Until election day this week.
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He said, "Call the doctor. I think I'm gonna crash."
"The doctor say he's comin', but you gotta pay him cash."
-- Eagles- Life In The Fast Lane
Last June I was visiting an old friend in San Rafael, California. He lives the classic Marin county life high on a brindle California hillside. His house is reached by driving the blind curves of one of those thin hill roads. He's got open land and long views next to his house. And a beautiful and extensive garden. A Sunset Magazine garden.
And like most homeowners in Marin, he's got his own personal Mexican to keep it together. Yard work, it's what most of the Mexicans of Marin do. That and construction, and cooking, and cleaning, and any other kind of scut work that brings them cash.
From what I could see, this yard worker gets about $85 a day. Maybe more, maybe less. Maybe for that day only. Maybe for two days a week. Hard to imagine it could be for three. But I have no way of knowing. In Marin it would be the height of political insensitivity to ask, "By the way, how much do you pay your own personal Mexican?"
His personal Mexican doesn't speak much English. Just enough to get by. The home owners treat him with respect and a strange deference, lapsing in a kind of Spanglish in order to talk to him. They ferry their personal Mexican from their house high on the hill to his home -- somewhere in the rambling and beaten down apartment complexes east of the freeway in San Rafael.
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Are you a racist?
Well, if the truth were told, who isn't? But say either "No," or "Who you calling a racist?"
As we all know, this question is never answered in the affirmative except by white liberals seeking to curry favor, get a date, or be declared legally black. Indeed, this question doesn't have to be answered. The fact that you are being asked the question establishes that you are, indeed, a racist. This is primarily true if you happen to be of the white persuasion, but can also be true is you are of a member of a majority-minority. This means any minority which is larger than any other minority present.
Hence, a Native American gets to ask an African-American if he is a racist because the Native American is from a minority-minority (unless the encounter is happening in a Casino). However, the "once-was-a-slave" rule comes into play here since the minority-minority was only conquered and subjugated, rather than captured and subjugated and made to take a long, unpleasant sea voyage. By invoking the "once-was-a-slave" rule an African-American, even if one of the majority-minority, can reasonably deny racism since, having invented the "Are you a racist?" gambit, African-Americans cannot, ipso facto, be racist. Got it? Good. There will be a spot quiz on this question when you least expect it for the next 50 years so you'd better get crisp about it.
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Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Death's in residence on my block
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die
To cease upon the midnight with no pain....
-- Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
Once upon a time, when Europe could be had at $5 a day, I found myself hitchhiking on the freezing plains of Spain just outside of Madrid. Car after car swept past me, the winds in their wakes chilling me further. This was very disconcerting since I had with me my fail-safe ride generator, a hot hippie girlfriend (Think a good-looking Janis Joplin.) My ride generator had never failed me before but on this day it was turning up zero rides even as the traffic on the road was heavy. Then I noticed two things. First there seemed to be no trucks on the road. Second, the cars that huffed past us were filled to the gills with whole Spanish families bearing vast bouquets of flowers. And all those Spaniards looked, to the last, very grim.
After a few futile hours, we made our way -- walking -- a few kilometers down the road to a truck stop where, using my pidgin Spanish, the mystery of the ride drought was solved. It seemed that we were trying to get to Barcelona on one of the most holy days of the Spanish year -- All Saints Day, or as we have it here in America, Halloween.
The Spanish tradition on this day is for the whole family to load up the car with flowers and other offerings and haul off to the local graveyard for a visit and picnic with the dearly departed. After that many go off to a traditional performance of Spain's Faustian epic Don Juan Tenario in which the final act takes place in a cemetery. On this holy day in Spain we had almost zero chance of getting a ride anywhere other than the local graveyard. Chastened, we made our way back to Madrid by bus and set out the next day with much better luck.
What remains in my memory from watching the parade of cars on that long-lost Spanish highway is just how dour and serious the Spanish were on their Halloween. They weren't fooling around with death, but taking it at its word. They not only believed in death they also, in their prayers and rituals and their traditional play, believed that what you do in life determines how you will be treated in the afterlife. They had, at bottom, that adamantine belief that is the pearl beyond price of the Catholics. But even if you were to strip away the 2000 years of dogma, these people still had the one thing that more and more Americans lack at the core of their lives: a belief in something greater than themselves, a belief in something greater than man, greater than death.
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- 1960s: The Population Bomb. Too many people yields global famines and cannibalism. [Long pig -- the other white meat -- still not on any local restaurant's menu, except for that movie joint serving Fried Green Tomatoes.]
- 1970s: No oil by 2000. [Still pumping and there's more wherever we look.]
- 1970s: The new Ice Age. Just when the oil wells ran dry, the glaciers would begin.... [Good thing the polar bears will thrive. We'll need the fur coats.]
- 1980s: AIDS. You're all going to die, YES YOU.... [Who me? Even if I don't share needles and body slam 15 guys a night at the bath houses which will never ever close? YES YOU-- and give us a lot of money too.]
- 1990s: BSE. Eat beef? You're going to end up a drooling victim of Mad Cow Disease. [Better that than a member of Daily Kos. Saner and healthier as well. Bring on the rib-eye and let's get this over with.]
- 1990s-present: Global Warming. Well, the Ice Age didn't emerge. [Good thing the polar bears are still thriving. We can feed the Eco-Nazi's to them.]
- 2000s: Terrorism. We're facing a 9/11 every week from bombers who plan to destroy planes with weapons hidden in shampoo bottles. [Not if we adopt the secret TSA master plan and all fly naked with a box of sanitary wipes for the seats.]
- 2000s: Bird Flu. [If the Chicken Blood Drinking Decathlon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics didn't spread this around the world nothing will.]
- 2008: The credit crunch. Recession, depression or financial apocalypse? [I'm going long on canned goods and ammo. Especially Dinty Moore Polar Bear Stew. Hey, you gotta cut somewhere.]
Outline expanded @ Seconds To Doomsday
Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. -- MATTHEW 14
A disturbing element of the Obama campaign is the shameless use of children by his supporters and the campaign itself. (See this coming weekend's Grassroots "Kids for Obama Parade" in Seattle for the latest of these "pet parades.")
Deploying children in campaigns is not an unusual element in political contests. Supporters are always convinced they are supporting their candidate "for the children." At the same time, it can't be overstated that the Obama campaign and its supporters/parents are more than usually enthusiastic about getting the kids to convince everyone in the nation that Obama really is in it "for the children."
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Jim H. Ainsworth in an article at American Thinker asks Obama to
"please explain why American lives are more precious in Iraq than they would be in Afghanistan-why you are willing to spend treasure and lives in this hostile land, but want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq?"
I don't know what Obama would say if he answered this question, but I do know that there is no honest answer he can give, even if he were an honest man. Indeed, the whole warp and woof of the Afghanistan question cannot be answered honestly by any of the myriad Democrats and fellow travelers who have been boosting this canard for years.
Indeed, if you had to extract any current position on the war on terror promoted without hint or hindrance by Democrats over the past few years it is that "the real war is in Afghanistan." Yes, only there can we track, find, capture and bring to a court of law the evil doer Osama Bin Laden. And then we can declare, with the running to ground of this one man, not victory, but a win. And then we can go home.
This constant carping about the real war in Afghanistan is so much mirrors and smoke sent up from the smoldering brainpans of people who have no such opinion at all. They would be liars to a man if they were any real men among them.
Do not buy the Afghanistan lie.
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
-- Sonnet 18
In the end, it is not our failure to learn from history that condemns us to repeat it, but our mind's turning away from even the briefest glimpse of what the dark passages of history were like that damns us. We may know, but we refuse to see. We blind our own mind's eye. It is our inability to imagine the most evil things that all men are capable of that corrupts us.
No, do not say "our inability" to imagine. Say rather, "our refusal" to imagine since the imagination itself -- if we were honest -- can indeed visualize carnage and depravity with ourselves as the actor and never the acted-upon. Our mind can and does see things that we cannot stand to admit. Our mind can bring to an image and hold in our mind's eye things of infinite vileness.
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LinkWednesday, November 19
- Big Clue. Pay attention:
Legacy media companies can’t create a new business model for news and journalism by themselves. They have to work TOGETHER, to build a network — a giant network of much smaller pieces, loosely joined. - The market and the internet don’t care if you make money - Publishing 2.0
- Second Big Clue. Pay attention again.
"You can decide to hassle your readers (oh, I mean your customers) and you can decide that a book on a Kindle SHOULD cost $15 because it replaces a $15 book, and if you do, we (the readers) will just walk away. Or, you could say, "if books on the Kindle were $1, perhaps we could create a vast audience of people who buy books like candy, all the time, and read more and don't pirate stuff cause it's convenient and cheap..." -- Seth Godin discusses free content and the publishing industry
- BibliOdyssey: Five Centuries of Board Games
- When you got it, flaunt it! "As I mentioned in my book -- which has now been in the Amazon top two million for 93 consecutive weeks..."
- Abandon Ship!
Unlike cars, wooden and fiberglass boats have virtually no scrap value. So rather than pay the high cost of hauling their boats to the dump, people ditch them or sell them for as little as $1 to anyone who will take them. The boats often break up and go under, or pass into the underground economy of nighttime scuttlers_ who, for a fee, remove traceable identification numbers, strip out salvageable items and sink the vessels.
- Danger Room Debrief: Gang Threat Could Top Al Qaeda, Mr. President-Elect
- Jim Jones, American Leftist Pet Flynn Files -- Don't Drink the Kool-Aid on Jonestown
A man who killed more African Americans than the Ku Klux Klan was awarded a local Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award and won the plaudits of California lieutenant governor Mervyn Dymally, state assemblyman Willie Brown, radical academic Angela Davis, preacher/politician Jesse Jackson, Black Panther leader Huey Newton, and other African American activists.
- Amazon Fights 'Wrap Rage' With Easy-Open Packaging
The Web retailer's Frustration-Free Packaging initiative aims to reduce the plastic clamshells, coated wire ties, and fasteners that drive consumers crazy.
- Varifrank: How To Stop Piracy: A Primer Numero Uno: Kill them. And the towns they rode in from.
- How old is the Internet?
- Mere Rhetoric: Obama's Top NSA And CIA Picks: Harsh On Israel, Sympathetic To Iran And Hezbollah
- D’JEver Notice?
The democrats lose votes with their evil stupid plans to inject pointlessness into things…like making money…following the law…defending the country. Every little thing anybody can do — except oppose Republicans — they want to make a little bit tougher, a little bit less rewarding.
- Milky Way's Black Hole Sending Out Flares | Universe Today
- Freespace: Who's the anti-intellectual?
"The left has long been the welcoming home of fashionable postmodern nonsense like deconstructivism and moral and cultural relativism.... The left is fond of violence and power, and the romanticism and iconography of thugs who are transformed into celebrities among leftist intellectuals. Liberals are this country’s leading practitioners of race and gender politics."
- Couple Divorces After Husband Is Caught Banging Virtual Prostitute In Second Life
- Unqualified Reservations: Barack Obama, for the last time
Seriously, folks, it's already evident from his first week in office (since presidential power is primarily persuasive, the "-elect" doesn't mean much) that President Obama is exactly what I guessed: nothing. A Gatsby, a Zelig, a warm breeze in a suit. A bright, but completely characterless and forgettable, young man, with an unusual but hardly unique talent for reading speeches on TV. In short, America's new anchorman.
Tuesday, November 18
- Sippican Cottage: California's Broke And I Don't Care
The Governator has his hand out for federal money. With San Franciscan Nancy Pelosi running congress and some high-powered senators on the other end of the hillhall, he might get a taste. It's a bad idea. When a fellow you know comes up to you at the racetrack and says he's lost all his money because his can't-miss horse threw a shoe, and wants to borrow a few hundred so he can buy groceries to feed his children, you're wise to at least consider that his kids might go hungry no matter what you do.
- Women rule the world. So they say, "Balls in one hand, heart in the other, manipulating the marionette strings, making those boys dance in abnormal ways, we exercise our power with impunity." - Cleopatra's Cat @ Jaded Haven
- Victor Hanson on the Journalism, she is kaput.
From the New York Times, NPR, PBS, or Newsweek, we will hear little whether Obama is choosing a good or bad team, or said silly things or contradicts what he promised. They simply have lost all credibility and now the republic is left largely with bloggers, talk radio, and a few newspapers as mostly partisan auditors.
- Tarot @ One Cosmos: The Devil and His Chaotic Minions "The card suggests "an eminently practical lesson as to how it happens that beings can forfeit their freedom and become slaves of a monstrous entity which makes them degenerate by rendering them similar to it."
- What do women want? Nothing and everything:
"The woman may be hoping for a hookup, but she may also be looking for a husband, a co-parent, a sperm donor, a relationship, a threesome, or a temporary place to live. She may want one thing in November and another by Christmas."Love in the Time of Darwinism
- Still more super news about the New York Times: Play, The New York Times' Sports Magazine, Folds Buh-bye.
- He's baack! John Podesta, UFO nutter: The Daily Gut says
if you believe in progressive ideas, you'll believe in just about anything – including kooky conspiracies concerning the suppression of alien discovery.
- Progressives’ California Dreamin': "Social liberalism has always been a white man’s gig, and the more progressive the politics, the more Caucasian the constituency."
- File under "Even with absolute power the government can't do jack."Plans Stall In Fort Trumbull
Next month marks the third anniversary of the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed the city of New London to use the power of eminent domain. But, not much progress has been made in Fort Trumbull, leaving some wondering whether the homeowners were forced out for nothing.
- 1 Brand New Airbus + Clueless Arab Flight Crew + 1 Retaining Wall = Airbus Piloted Into Wall By Arab Crew Before Takeoff
- Book offer to Palin gobstops Australian newspaper:US Rebublican [sic] Sarah Palin wooed for $11m book deal | Herald Sun It could have been worse. It could have been "Rebubbacan."
- Two Very Dangerous Words: "Fair" and "Fairness"
- LILEKS (James) :: the Bleat "The curse of the corporately-mandated query." Just "a means for a dying distribution network to extract a few more coins on the way into the grave. "
- 10 tips to spot a fake Rolex
- The hot new trend "Global Cooling" turns out to be catching: Universe may abound with icy planets | COSMOS magazine
- CARPE DIEM: Private or Public School for the Obamas? Public School Teachers Go Private @ Higher % Than Public Public school teachers send their own children to private schools at a rate more than twice the national average--22% of public educators' children are in private schools compared to the national average of 10%.
- America, the Manolo begs of you, please, stop!
The campaigns are over. Put away the yard signs, and the buttons, and the flyers, and the full-sized votive statue of your favorite candidate that you have carved from sandalwood and hand-painted in realistic colors, and which is now seated in the easy chair in the family room.
- When real looks fake: 50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model.
Sunday, November 16
- Morgan's Rules # 1: "Just don’t marry bitches. Marry (or couple up with) sweethearts, and treat ‘em like that’s what they are. Spend your time around someone who wants you to be happy, and you will be." - House of Eratosthenes
- Planning ahead? Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama.
- Global Warming: A Primer for Kids by Noel @ Cold Fury
To sum up, Remocrats invented Global Warming in order to do what they wanted to do all along; to tax people, to boss them around, to make mountains of rules for businesses and to take all your Nintendo Wiis and electronic video games and grind them into non-organic Malthusian mulch while forcing you to watch “Arthur” on PBS all day long until their regularly-scheduled power brown-outs force you to go to bed at dark just like the cavemen did. And they all lived happily–if nastily, brutishly and shortly–ever after. The End.
- "First, they should seek experience, not just numbers."Dazzled by digits: how we're wooed by product specifications
- American Thinker: Orwell's Children
Too many of us for comfort or solace have become just like the denizens of Jonestown: Orwell's children -- a new generation of creature enraged into constant militancy against eternal enemies, oblivious to the notion of a Blessed Creator, melded into the consciousness of the party hive, divorced from history, hypnotized by images, inoculated against reason, stripped of family, and existing only to serve the cause.
- Spam sales up "What would explain it is if people are not just poor, but poor and some combination of lazy, bad cooks, and/or bad shoppers." Add in just plain stupid and you've got it.
- Belmont Club - Que sera, sera And now... "government assisted immigration fraud driven by the fact that since there weren't enough Spanish-language teachers to instruct immigrants, schools had to import illegal immigrants to teach them."
- SteynOnline - DOUBLE-O BAMA
"If the default mode of a society’s institutions is liberal, electing GOP legislators eventually accomplishes little more than letting a Republican driver take a turn steering the liberal bus. If Hollywood’s liberal, if the newspapers are liberal, if the pop stars are liberal, if the grade schools are liberal, if the very language is liberal to the point where all the nice words have been co-opted as a painless liberal sedative, a Republican legislature isn’t going to be a shining city on a hill so much as one of those atolls in the Maldives being incrementally swallowed by Al Gore’s rising sea levels."
- Poor boy no more: Sir Bob Geldof wants $100,000 for anti-povery speech | The Daily Telegraph - a speakers fee that included the cost of luxury hotel rooms and first-class airfares.
- Cabinet of Wonders: Blogs as Wunderkammern
Saturday, November 15
- More poetry from mid-heaven @ Flight Level 390: Almost Full Moon "The local time is 0230 hrs. It is the deepest, coldest part of the night. Outside, the winds are on our tail at 126 mph; air temperature is sixty below. My co-pilot, thirty-two years old and father of three small children, is looking at the stars, too."
- Karl Rove on Joe Biden: "I think he has an odd combination of longevity and long-windedness that passes for wisdom in Washington."
- The Dipso Chronicles: BEER! What is it GOOD for? "Beer is supposed to be the anti-wine. It is for people who are not pretentiously spitting mouthfuls into buckets while talking about the subtle notes of the bouquet. Beer is for the men who are not willing to be turned into women by their women through the nut-snipping trend of wine-snobbery that has thoroughly taken over the world."
- There's really only one Vagina Monologue that counts at Huffpo, fools. Is Arianna's HuffPo Sexist? | The New York Observer
- 6 Lessons in Manliness from James Bond | The Art of Manliness
- Jules Crittenden on a rockin' roll with Why Palin Matters
"No More Mr Nice Blog wonders why it took gaptoothedRepublican inbreeds so long to choose a backwoods ignoramus as their leader. Good point. Democrats shone the light down this path a long time ago, with the Georgia peanut farmer, the Arkansas trailer-park troller, and now with an urban twist, the Chicago community organizer."
- Dear Hillary, The circus called: they want their tent back
- Varifrank: You know youre not supposed to take those ads seriously dont you? but I just dont think that the 'before and after' picture is the same person. I just have a hunch. I can't quite put my finger on why I feel this way, I just do.
- The Road to Hell Is Paved with Cash You Send to Celebrity Charities "Bono’s charity is called One. As in chartering One plane for almost $300,000, and spending almost $10,000 on tickets for One U2 concert."
- 1800s Vampire Killing Kit
Made in America roughly 200 years ago, this authentic Vampire Killing Kit came stocked ready to battle bloodsucking creatures of night with stakes, mirrors, a gun with silver bullets, crosses, a Bible, holy water, candles and garlic. Housed in an American walnut case with crosses carved in the top, it recently sold at auction for $14,850.
[Note: A bit too good to be true. I suspect this might be a fake.]
almost at the equator
almost at the equinox
exactly at midnight
from a ship
the full
moon
in the center of the sky.
Gary Snyder
Sappa Creek near Singapore
March 1958
Friday, November 14
- A prayer for Obama: "I pray each night that Barack Obama gets up healthy and stays that way -- since the idea of Joe Biden as President is as frightening as Sarah Palin is not." - Victor Hanson
Jules Crittenden -- Valkyrie For War Czar"I am imploring the Obama administration to unbolt Hillary from whatever Democratic dungeon she's been strapped down in for the last three months, and inform that hard, pipe-hitting politician that her job is to get medieval on the asses of America's enemies. And give her the leather girdle, the zipper mask, the whip, the pliers and the blowtorch to do it with."
- Wallets Wide Shut -or - "In October nobody bought nothing."
- The Senate?
"A stodgy enclave of self-satisfied jobbers, whose famed collegiality is the precise cause of their inertia and circular jerkism. Do you know what a Senator can do? He can vote. Big fucking deal. Oh, he/she can also chair, and preside, and strut, and preen, and actually even have their cock-swapping lobbyists craft legislation for them. But at the end of Gaia's axel the only power they truly wield is the laughingly impotent vote. One vote of 100. Hell, I can garner more clout than that in a Daytona Beach Harley bar wearing bicycle pants." - Velociworld: Requiem for a Lightweight; a Prologue
- The Futile Quest for Climate Control and the principle of "Noble Cause corruption."
- Succinct and to the point: "The reason no one can defend traditional marriage anymore is because in this country all marriage is gay marriage." -Wheat & Weeds: Gay Divorcees
- Cool Tools: The Japan Woodworker
- GM = Walking Death "The end of all this will be GM in the grave. But not yet. First we will witness the walking death of GM through the first Obama term, administered by industrial undertakers and union ghouls and their cheerless PACs."
- "The only way they'll get my sperm is when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!"
Britain is facing a sperm donor shortage after reversing confidentiality laws and limiting the number of women who can use sperm from one donor, fertility experts warned Wednesday. Britain in 2005 changed the law protecting anonymous sperm donors and allowed children to learn the identity of donor fathers - one reason, fertility experts say, there are fewer donors now. - U.K. Facing Sperm Donor Shortages
- Don't drop that drill -- Greens Pave Way for Republican Comeback
- Let's Talk About Your Big Fat Pumpkin
- Obama: Not Man Enough to Be President
- "I will vote always for best, always:" Conversations with Paul
- Armies of the Blight: Men Seeking Work. Anything Accepted. Cash Only. Illegal Not a Problem.
- Frequently Answered Questions
- Hitchhiking in the Land of the Dead
- The 9 Plagues of Western Snivilization
- "Suffer Little Children, and Forbid Them Not, to Come Unto Me"
- The Road to a Democrat Led Defeat of America Goes Through Afghanistan
- Can You Imagine?: On the American "Elites"