Barking Rabbits

OK, zeppo has come up with an idea that squeezed a post out of me, since as I told him, writing about the newest Bushie depredations just de...

Many thanks to the IMDB Space Ghost: I could plead the Fifth. Zorak: If you could count that high. [After viewing a commercial] Space Ghost:...

UPDATED: 5/29 below. Can this person NOT appoint someone based solely on experience relevant to the job and trustworthiness? It seems like ...

Glenn Greenwald, at Salon.com, had a commenter who dug out some pretty interesting quotes about the Vietnam War, as reported by Time magazin...

I find history fascinating. All sorts of history; relatively recent and very ancient, hugely important events and insignificant tidbits. W...

It’s difficult to decide what to write on these days. I would normally just pick a subject that sparked some outrage in me on that particul...

The first photo is at Mukilteo, WA May 19, 2007. Assisted by the Southern Pacific, SP 4449, the two locomotives pull an excursion train fro...

Japanese people pay a very tidy sum for these babies, upwards of 50 bucks each, I believe. I suppose this proves two things. One, the Japa...

You hear this a lot these days from the wingers. I am paraphrasing and doing some lumping together, but the main argument seems to be that ...

It turns out the Pope is totally ignorant of history, culture and religions other than Christianity. The other alternative is that he is a ...

This post at Daily Kos puts it all together in a very terrifying way. I have been following this story for the last couple of days, but sin...

I hadn’t really intended, in the post below , to really get into the morality of abortion. However, the volatility of the issue kind of mak...

Well, that was a fast year, all things considered. Doesn’t seem like a year has passed. I won’t say I have accomplished much of anything i...

Global warming and its close cousin, global climate change, are coming at us faster than we could have imagined. Estimates are now that the...

This time, courtesy of the Department of Road Maintenance. Some people have a very narrow view of their job description....

Boy, it is looking like it is going to be very unlikely we will get someone from the Republican party who isn’t under the thumbnail of sever...

Talk about science being exciting and beautiful at the same time. This is from the New Horizons website . Isn't that just a wonderful ...

“Well, officer, there was this deer at the end of the runway when I was taking off.” This occurred in Seattle a number of years ago. The pi...

Although ludlowlou said he did like my puppy, he made a pointed comment about what he saw as a disconnect about my position on guns and my f...

Well, even after almost a year at this, I am still trying to learn the ropes about what makes one a successful, occasionally snarky blogger ...

"Whadda mean, 'You guess you forgot to turn off the water before we left for the weekend last Friday'!?!!" (True story, no...

I had planned on doing some posts on some other topics besides politics, such as the planet Saturn, comparisons to The Gilded Age or why I a...

You know, this bit about freedom to bear arms, and all that? Here is the text of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United Sta...

I bought a bunch of new music this last week. Some of my “new” CD’s are actually quite old, in terms of when they were released. But they ...

I am amazed that it took so long to figure this all out. Many people have been pulling together very loose threads laying together, and fin...

This is getting pretty frightening. This could result in some very dire, very near term effects on the human population. I find it amazing...

“Disgusted”, “rage” and “bewilderment” point in the right direction, but does not come anywhere near describing the level of emotion that I ...