Happy Halloween

TECH NOTES: The photo is from the Cassini mission. It is a new Saturn image released

If Ever He Would Leave Us …

Robert Goulet desperately needed a lung transplant.
It didn’t work out.

Christina’s Outing

NOTE: You can download Christina’s Craving complete.pdf
(click to go to download page) [page updated 25 Aug 09]

I am woman, hear me roar.
I am Blakely St. James.
Halloween was always important to my feminine identity AS Blakely St. James, since Christina’s Hideaway was released on Halloween 1983, and Christina’s Craving ends on a fictional [...]

First Manassas

I am astonished on the eve of battle. These two great armies of the blogosphere are drawn up, face to face, General versus General: The Dread Pundit Bluto (if that IS his real name) versus Glenn Greenwald, Steve Benin versus Dr. Rusty Shackleford, Blue Crab Boulevard versus Newshoggers, Captain Ed versus Crooks & Liars, [...]

Col. Boylan Goes Off The Reservation

Regular readers might recognize this, from Sept. 3rd’s “Meet The New Baghdad Bob“:
I checked the infostream [internet] for actual quotes from Boylan and found only one prior citation swarm in 2007: An April quote about how Iraqi protests were not bad, but were, instead, a vindication of how mass demonstrations showed that democracy was working. [...]

Quayle’s Brain Updates – Friday & Saturday

(ANOTHER VIEW)
This story continues to swirl, perhaps in directions that the Rightie Blogosmear™ didn’t intend or expect. The original post, “A Convenient Leak for Dan Quayle’s Brain” is here — a longish little report that seems to have generated a lot of interest. It’s currently being featured on Salon’s Blog Report, and The Moderate Voice’s [...]

Blacksmith of the Year Named in Toronto

This part of the story is fiction:
Dateline: Dearborn, Michigan
October 30, 1902
SMITHY HONOREES ANNOUNCED
The Greater Detroit Amagamated Blacksmiths’ Guild honored one of its own last night, as the “Blacksmith of the Year” awards were held at McGinty’s Wagon Shop of 688-692 Mack Avenue, in honor of Will McGinty’s retirement.

A Convenient Leak for Dan Quayle’s Brain

These are difficulties the man from the country has not expected; the Law, he thinks, should surely be accessible at all times and to everyone, but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, with his big sharp nose and long, thin, black Tartar beard, he decides that [...]

Tortured Logick

On the way out the door, I saw this, and, after rolling on the floor in gales of laughter at the sheer hypocrisy of it, I had to “share” it with you.
Mitt Wrongmney on health care (from the New York Times transcript of last night’s GOP debate):

To The Sea

I am off to the sea. Will be back in a few days.
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than [...]

GOP v. Truth

We begin with the Weasel-in-Waiting, Mitt (“Unclean Hands”) Romney.
It seems that Romney continues his decidedly un-Christian “I will do ANYTHING to win” streak. The one that first surfaced in my awareness when he retroactively gamed the System to bald-facedly claim (as only lawyers can manage) that he’d ACTUALLY been living in Massachusetts during the period [...]