Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
And not just any movie. This is a movie directed by Robert Zemeckis of Forrest Gump and Back to the Future fame, and stars the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, and Robin Wright Penn – all Hollywood A-listers. Well, sorta starring these people. Check out the trailer and let me know if [...]
Clyburn: Positive Report by Petraeus Could Split House Democrats on War – washingtonpost.com House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party’s efforts to press for a timetable to end the [...]
Most detailed pictures of Earth ever seen | the Daily Mail The clear images, released by NASA, were pieced together from observations taken from a satellite of the land surface, oceans, sea ice and clouds. Using a collection of these satellite-based observations, NASA scientists have stitched together months of observations of the earth’s surface and [...]
So… Why am I posting at midnight? Well, I’ve been playing Oblivion again… As if I needed any more proof of my geekiness. Well, I hadn’t played it in a while because of the High School Reunion, and then catching up on chores and work tasks… so tonight was a sort of mindless computer game [...]
FOXNews.com – Missing Alabama Minister’s Wife Found Working at Fast-Food Restaurant in New York – Local News | News Articles | National News | US News The wife of an Alabama minister missing for more than four months has been located by police unharmed and working under an alias at a fast-food restaurant in New [...]
JustOneMinute: Nerd Patrol She has gone to high schools and colleges, mainly in California, and asked students from different crowds to think about the idea of nerdiness and who among their peers should be considered a nerd; students have also “reported†themselves. Nerdiness, she has concluded, is largely a matter of racially tinged behavior. People [...]
No satisfaction for meat-eaters No sex, please, you’re a carnivore. A new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme. Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they [...]
So, with the discussions of geekdom that have been posted lately, I’ve been thinking about geekdom. Geekiness is generally thought of as a personality type, perhaps even a personality disorder, but after the comment from “tangent” a few days ago, I’ve been rethinking the whole concept of geekiness. Tangent’s comment was that geeks typically are [...]
Today’s Op-Ed in the New York Times, by MICHAEL E. O’HANLON and KENNETH M. POLLACK A War We Just Might Win – New York Times VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over [...]
So Friday afternoon in Phoenix a man stole a truck and led the police on a dangerous high-speed chase. In the course of the chase he stole another truck, and then invaded a private residence where he was finally captured. As a direct result of his actions in the high speed chase, two helicopters from [...]
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