After years of US coddling the militant military government of Burma (hey, they used to be anti-commie and if you were sufficiently anti-commie you could torture cats* and grandmothers with US backing), SOMEONE in the Bush administration is finally speaking out against the torture and the oppressive nature of the generals who run the [...]
If you’re much of a baseball fan you’ve heard of Rick Ankiel. A few years ago, Ankiel was a flame-throwing pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, touted to be in the Cardinals rotation for years to come, But then, he lost his mojo. He missed home plate as often as charter [...]
Venus ascending, Venus oh Venus. I’m a fan. Venus rocked the tennis world again today by winning Wimbledon for the 4th time. She came in seeded 23 but blazed a path through the higher seeds. Her serve serrated Sharapova. The Venus game is made for grass.
I knew full well that the women’s final was this [...]
We watched Spiderman 2 on tee-vee last night. I loved S-2. Not so much the original and I’m not hearing much good about S-3. When I was a kid and all the goodie-goods were reading Superman and Batman, my buddy Kimble and I squirreled away with our Marvel pals: Fantastic Four and Spiderman.
Spidey was my [...]
I borrowed this quiz directly from Thomas Mc who was on his Ihajj at the time. My favorite sci-fi movie of all times (after Star Wars 1 and II) is ‘Serenity‘. This quiz will tell you which Serenity character you are most like…sadly, I’m not the Captain.
Your results:
You are Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
Zoe [...]
There was a brawl last night at the Nashville Arena. And yeah, there was some damn fine hockey in between. To say that there was some bad blood between the Preds and the Sharks coming into the game is kind of like saying that the Sunni folk and the Shiite folk have [...]
BBC America has begun showing a new Robin Hood series*. I’ve seen the first episode twice now (On Demand, thank you!) and I’m looking forward to the next.
I think most kids back in the day (and maybe now, I dunno, my kids are grown) relished the Robin Hood legend. The ’steal from the [...]
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