Monthly Archives: October 2007

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

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

Christina’s Craving was my strange pulpy masterpiece: a coked-out nymphomaniac goes in search of God. And I had managed to write EACH scene in a non-repetitive manner. My editor told me “Well, you’ve written a cult novel.” And never hired me again. (What he said, VERBATIM, was: “We aren’t doing any sex books right now.” And I have been professionally relegated to the ghetto ever after.) Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

(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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →