Its mandatory to weigh in on the 20th bastard highjacker and the ‘life’ verdict handed down by the jury this afternoon. I’m generally pro-death penalty. I’m waffling a bit on that in recent years. However, if any crime deserved the death penalty, isn’t this the one? Sure, this idiot wasn’t THERE when it happened, but [...]
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Filed under: The War
I’ve been playing with a review of this book for a couple of weeks now. It isn’t easy to summarize my thoughts about this, and I’m not even sure I’m going to be able to do it right, even now. This was a Big Book. Stross bleeds more ideas on each page than most writers [...]
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The word has been debased. It has been tossed around too easily in our media driven world, with each careless handling rubbing a bit of the gleam off of the meaning of the word. Words such as this should be reserved, only to be deployed at the correct time, addressed to the correct person. This [...]
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Filed under: Politics
There is plenty of Playoff Hockey left. We have a game 7 tonight. Anaheim and Calgary. Of course, everyone is anticipating a renewed Battle of Alberta, but don’t count out the Ducks just yet. Selanne has had a fun resurgence this season, and is playing well against a rough Calgary team. In the East, the [...]
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