Barking Rabbits

Artistic rendering of Cthulhu, which also sort of represents my feeling towards complex electronic devices in general. Yes, I recognize the ...

Birdseed. Not always for birds.

Shih-Tzus may be cold weather dogs (and I base this on the prodigious amount of hair they grown in a very short period of time), but their h...

Photo from Universe Today.

I must have slept through the other nine.

Or wait.... Maybe I did. I can't remember. From Found Shit.

Aha. This is just what I needed to put a little pep into my day. Here is a bit of the story about these sailing stones that come from Envi...

Wow. That's about all the narrative necessary for this one. Just, wow.... Snapped from the New Horizons spacecraft on its way to Satur...

See here for the very latest , which will no doubt be totally out of date in the next 15 minutes. Ok, but here's one thing that I haven...

This is how the lead story on the web version of the Times presents the story. Occupy protest waning; just ask hot-dog vendor Hum. If you a...

Well, they are British, after all..... From Picture is Unrelated.

Apparently never, I guess. Remember Harold Camping , the lunatic fundamentalist who convinced a lot of True Believers that Judgment Day was...

Just because it's been a while since I have done this.... I wonder if there are doggies on the moon? What? I was kind o...

Read the story here in HuffPo if you haven't seen the news. This is reminding me so much of the Vietnam war. I am old enough to have l...

Why can't you say it's the Republicans who have partially shut down the FAA? I saw your lead story on the 5:00 news last night (Aug....

Here’s the HuffPo version to get your started. The Senate, with the federal debt crisis resolved, is expected to leave by the end of the we...

And that is why it is ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE to cut Social Security and Medicare, but not important enough to actually raise any taxes or cut...

Yeah, yeah, I know. Giving in to defeatism. Letting the bad guys wins. Go down swinging, and all that other rot. Not that I don't be...

Jesus H. Christ.

I hope that everyone remembers what happened to Colin Clive at the end of the film.

If the U.S. government defaults on its payments and, as a result, S ocial Security checks do not get mailed out , the Republicans will try t...

That my latest analogy to explain this madness. Republicans are still terribly, terribly pissed off because their team lost the NBA finals,...

From Huffington Post : GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- A gunman opened fire at a child's birthday celebration at a Texas roller rink, killing fi...

Crazy doesn't even begin to explain this. One huge reason that I haven't been blogging in the last month is that I can't even b...

I am paraphrasing, of course. If you want to see the gist of what they both said, here is a summary from Washington Monthly . First, Cohen:...

I've been dealing with a "hi speed internet" connection problem on my home network that has been getting progressively worse. ...

I have spent the last half hour trying to get iTunes on my Mac to play some of my old CD's. It appears that if a new disc gets put in t...

Tom Matlack Should Women Really "Go Ugly?” AOL Real Estate: Real-Estate Disclosure: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You PopEater: ...

I am assuming this has something to do with the presidential aspirations of Tim Pawlenty...

There are a number of reasons why I can’t say that this country “is doomed” or will be “totally irrelevant on the world stage.” Sheer inert...

I saw a quote from somewhere this morning that had Piper Palin saying to someone in the media who was part of the Moose Entourage, "Tha...

"Come! I shall now murder your unborn baby, even though you are not pregnant." Obama-bots, or O-bots as they are affectionately c...

I suppose the 60's really are over, aren't they?

The text in this cartoon comes, word for word, out of a press release from Newt Gingrinch's camp. Click on the cartoon to get a bigger v...

That Eric Cantor, he sure knows how to get potential voters on his side of an issue. From Washington Monthly: The scenes out of Joplin, Miss...

I find that I keep writing blog posts that start out with some variation of “The ONE thing that I find most amazing….” Of course, that only...

It was just that when God started checking the list of who was deserving, it turned out that no one was qualified. Certainly none of these ...

May 14, 2006, to be specific, is the date of the first post here. Well, that went fast. Sort of. I certainly used to be more prolific tha...

(The following information comes from the May 20, 2001 edition of the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. I can't give you a link, as her webs...

I mean, who could have seen THAT coming? About 90% of me is very happy, as happy as I can muster for something involving politics in the Un...

To me, this is a really unnerving thing. The one constant throughout someone’s life is that they had to go to school. For people of my age...