ecently, a LiveJournal friend of mine, Stacerific, asked me what I thought of this whole North American Union thing. I responded, rather intelligently, I thought, with: “What North American Union?”
     Stacerific said, “Oh yeah, meeting on August 20th to ratify the idea. Been talking about it since ‘05.”
     ”No way.” I said. Surely not? Surely someone on [...]

      was doing the crossword a couple of weeks ago. The clue was: “Abraham Lincoln’s online diary”. The answer? “Blogcabin”.
     *grooooaaaan* Terrible.
     There was this guy who supported his local Little League team by making the bats for them in his woodshop. On game days, he would place the bats under a hedge near the street, and [...]

     rt found a cool new browser-based game: Rule the Seas. It’s a pirate game! Whoohoo! You level your character up and get money by committing crimes, and then you can buy clothes and armor and ships and houses and all sorts of neat stuff. Your action points refresh very quickly, too, so you can kill [...]

      Toast to . . .

The Arizona reporters in the helicopter crash yesterday.
NASA’s astronauts apparently getting loaded before blasting off into space. Because frankly, if you were going to strap my ass to a huge rocket and blow me into space, I’d get drunk first, too.
The 9/11 bill, which has finally been passed through Congress. [...]

     ‘ve had to remove the option to register for the site for the time being — too many spambots (almost exclusively Russian) signing up. I’m considering disabling trackbacks, also, due to the same thing. We’ll give that another week, see what piles up. Meanwhile, back at the BatCave —
     The Bush Administration is shoveling shit [...]

ountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?
This old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?
Brothers or sisters have I none, but that mans father is my fathers son. [...]

     inally! Contempt of Congress charges filed! OMG, they’re actually doing something! Congress had issued subpoenas for Joshua Bolten and Harriet Meiers, to appear and give testimony concerning the Alberto Gonzales/firing US Attorneys/Justice Dept issues. The White House claimed that Bolten and Meiers didn’t have to testify due to Executive Privilege. Congress has just filed [...]

     ate one night, Daniel Boone and a friend went out fire hunting. Fire hunting involves the shining of the light from a fire pan (a pan full of blazing pine knots) into the woods. The light reflects in the eyes of the deer, which is too dazzled to run and the hunters can shoot it.
     This [...]

     rouser was normally a happy-go-lucky dog. He would chase tennis balls, play with other doggies, and eat his dinner without a fuss. He was a dog without a care.
     But on that fateful autumn afternoon, it was to be different. Trouser’s owners were walking him along a trail at the park, when suddenly from out of [...]

     on’t worry, I’m not going to spoil it!
     Friday night, under threat of death, my staff got me out of the restaurant at ten after close. It helped considerably that we were dead slow. Between Harry Potter and several other events in town, there was no business.
     I got to the local Barnes & Nobel about 11:30 [...]