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The summer's started? Already?

Mon, 05 May 2008 14:20:59 -0400

Went to see the new Iron Man movie this weekend. Suffice it to say that I had a great time, and the movie deserves the glowing reviews it's been getting. The two hours went by like a breeze, with a great mix of action, drama, and humor to keep things going, and I left the theater eager for a sequel.

Wright thinking

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:09:20 -0400

[Updated 5:08pm] A few thoughts on the continuing bruhaha over Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor and ever-popular subject of the mainstream news media echo chamber:

Colin Powell has no shame

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:44:13 -0400

Sure, you might have suspected it after he stood before the United Nations and told a bushel of bald-faced lies about Saddam Hussein's nonexistent mobile chemical laboratories (even when he knew beforehand that it was bullstuff), but Colin Powell has -- at long last -- admitted that he has no shame.

They don't get much stranger than this

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:35:09 -0400

Okay, I've been holding my tongue on the escalating war-of-the-words between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but I gotta break my vow of silence for this one.

Proving beyond any doubt that politics makes strange bedfellows, here's the matchup I never, never, ever would've expected to see...

Video game review: Pinball Hall of Fame - The Williams Collection

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:29:46 -0400

Long-time readers -- and I mean really long-time readers -- of this web site might recall that I'm a fairly enthusiastic pinball affectionato. I don't get to blog about it very often, though, since real-world pinballs (and arcades, for that matter) are pretty much extinct in this day and age. And while video pinball games are a fun diversion, almost all of them suffer from shoddy physics and unrealistic "video game" elements that detract from the genuine experience.

Asking the questions that the news media won't (again)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:28:22 -0400

The insensitive question of the day:

Asking the questions that the news media won't

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:10:00 -0400

So the big political story this week is the revelation that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught soliticiting high-priced prostitutes (sorry, "escorts") for sex. This item is guaranteed to grab headlines for at least a week, as it features the irresistible combination of titilation with hypocrisy (Spitzer was a former Attorney General who busted prostitution rings).

Brawling with extra irony

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:38:10 -0500

So I lucked out tonight and got an early copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was all set to play a few rounds (after doing some mild gloating on the interwebs )...

Saving Samus Aran

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:34:22 -0500

Okay, I got Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the Nintendo Wii the other day (via Amazon's $30 sale), and I have to ask -- what the frig is up with the game's save points?

Shed a tear for John McCain

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:56:50 -0500

I don't know about the rest of you, but right now I'm feeling rather sorry for John McCain.

Equal time for mom

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:18:48 -0500

Much to my surprise (not), there are some yaboos still obsessing over the "leaked" photo of Barack Obama wearing traditional Kenya garb from a trip to Africa a few weeks ago. One of the favorite tactics of the yaboos is to claim that the photo shows Senator Obama wearing his father's "tribal outfit," I presume because of some bizarre attempt to imply that Obama isn't really an American and/or to associate him to the negative aspects of Kenya.

To those folks I have to ask -- if you're going to go around trumpeting Obama dressing up from his father's side of the family, why not give equal time to his mother? Why aren't you waving around photos of Obama dressed up in his mother's culture?

Here, I'll help you out. Ladies and gentlemen, a photo of Senator Barack Obama wearing his mother's cultural costume:

Paging Buckner & Garcia

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:14:20 -0500

While driving into work this morning, I was listening to my copy of Pac-Man Fever, rockin' my inner geek with some cheesy '80s pop music.

After a while, I realize that it's been 25 years (plus a few months) since the album was first released in 1982.

And then I wondered, "Wouldn't it be cool (in an unabashed geeky way) if someone were to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Pac-Man Fever with a follow-up album?"

Barack Obama's political dojo?

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:37:28 -0500

[Updated 12:36pm, February 26] Another day, another bushel of election controversy...

Redundant choices in the drugstore

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:00:55 -0500

Since I have kids and it's cold and flu season, inevitably today I had to hike down to the local pharmacy to pick up some cold and flu medicine.

And inevitably I end up wondering what's the difference in what I get.

Hey, isn't that a felony?

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:57:06 -0500

[Updated February 21, 9:55am] So the latest Circle Of Outrage™ today apparently started on Monday, when Michelle Obama -- wife of presidential hopeful Barack Obama -- addressed a rally in Milwaukee and said: