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one list of benefits. another list of benefits. still another list. another. and one more. it may only be my simple opinion, but i see human space flight as a good work. and even as the world remembers saturday morning, the work goes on. it must continue. and though we may feel that our leaders …

tonight is the state of the union address. time for the potus to tell us all how we’re feeling at the moment. good thing too, because i was starting to wonder myself. no doubt it will be full of the usual fluff about how the economy is really okay and those financial analysts are just …

georgia has a new governor. i didn’t vote for him, his website doesn’t work yet, but there he is. he won by shifting voter focus from a history of increasing education revenues to a yen for a dismissed flag. specifically, a confederate battle flag put into the service of segregationalists in 1956. and a terribly …

you would have to be living under a rock to miss today’s top headline. and we’ve got all kinds of pundits from the far left to the wayout right, some of them are hailing the arrival of our new clone-savvy overlords and many more are decrying it as the end of human dignity as we …

and i don’t like star wars. those are freddie mercury’s words, lifted from bicycle race by queen. i always used to wonder about that line, or half of it anyway. i mean, how could anybody not like star wars? it was simply the greatest film of my kidhood, hands down. nothing even came close to …

sometimes i am asked another of those “why” questions. this why iregards this very weblog you’re reading right now. why did you post this? or more likely, why didn’t you post that? or more specifically, why didn’t you mention (insert name here) when you were talking about (insert event here)? i’m not the only one …

at least not on the local CBS affiliate. but there it was, all 15 or so seconds of it. a voiceover asks if you, the viewer, would recognize jesus christ if he were to return today. a generic picture of a stereotypically poor child. another photo, this time of a scruffilly bearded homeless fellow wearing …

few things move slower than the wheels of progress at the food & drug administration, but at least they have caught up with the rest of the world. or rather, they have caught up with the “rest of the world” if you think of the “rest of the world” as europe, or maybe just the …

what can you do when things go bump in the electronic night? when strange spirits creep out of the network? when emails writ with poison pen dip into your mailbox, you should realize that there are options out there. it is a crime, after all. but don’t take my word, see what the state of …

imagine you work in a cubicle, one with low walls and backed by a large multi-paned window. imagine that this cubible is on the top floor of a suburban office park which is itself atop a goodly sized hill. imagine that the ceiling is a good twenty-five feet above you, rather dark and cavernous and …