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On this beautiful Father’s Day weekend, can I just pause for a moment to say: What the fuck is wrong with you, America?
Never mind the War On Terror – apparently the hot new thing is the War On Kids.
In other news, Obama spent Father’s Day speaking to an African-American group in Chicago about how [...]

On the retirement of Castro:
“Eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections, and I mean free and I mean fair, not these kind of staged elections that the Castro brothers try to foist off as being true democracy” – George W. Bush, brother of Jeb

I am feeling artistic today. Look what I made:

Nice, eh?
By the way – this piece of art is© 2007 by herichon, all rights reserved, and my right to display this art on my website is protected under the first amendment as freedom of expression.
Now that I’ve used up all my creativity, I [...]

“I saw Pan’s Labyrinth. It was good. It’s a totally different movie
than the original, though. You know, Labyrinth? They did a totally
different thing.”
(by way of friend Heather, who did not actually say this herself)

The folks at the National Priorities Project have been maintaining a counter at costofwar.com for a while now that estimates the current economic cost of our continuing misadventure in Iraq.
It’s a depressing number, especially when you watch it grow by thousands of dollars each second and consider (as they do on their site) [...]

Two stupid things caught my eye in today’s news – one gently stupid and amusing, one horribly stupid and tragic.
Patrick Agin, a high-school senior in Portsmouth, has submitted for his senior yearbook a picture of himself in chainmail, wielding what can only be described as a big-ass sword. (Patrick is an active member of the [...]

[Editor’s note: I’m a little behind on this story, but better late than never.]
Here’s a hypothetical situation for your consideration.
Let’s say a given media outlet is saying a lot of inflammatory things – hate speech, threats of violence, racial slurs, etc. Some folks are offended by this, so they make a note of [...]

Some folks say he is. Some folks say he isn’t. Some folks just don’t care. (You’ll just have to imagine those last folks singing about it, I guess, since I can’t seem to find the recording anywhere online.)
Sadly, the evidence seems to favor LA Style. The Godfather has moved on.
The beat goes [...]

Let’s revisit some of our other top stories over the last few months. (Last few months where there were stories to revisit, I mean.)

Steve Irwin, sadly, is still dead. The stingray is still at large.

Reconstruction of the dome of that cathedral in St. Petersburg that burned so dramatically last August is scheduled for [...]

It’s about time for an update, don’t you think?