‘d like to take a moment to welcome my brand new nephew to the world: Brandon Micheal (hope I’m spelling that right), born last night around midnight-ish. He’s 7lbs, 6oz, and 20 inches long. I was hoping to have more details and possibly a picture before I posted, but no such luck. Soon, though!
     My mom [...]

      toast to the King of Kings! — Shawn Klush, a Pittston, Pennsylvania native, has been named the “ultimate Elvis tribute artist,” in the first-ever tournament for Elvis impersonators sanctioned by Elvis Presley’s estate. Klush won over the sold-out crowd at a downtown Memphis concert hall with a version of Viva Las Vegas and then [...]

     adilla Convicted Of All Charges:
     A federal jury in Miami on Thursday convicted Jose Padilla on charges of aiding terrorist operations abroad, a verdict that follows a long legal battle that pitted the Bush administration against civil liberties groups over how terrorism suspects are detained and should be prosecuted.
     Padilla, a U.S. citizen arrested with fanfare in [...]

     irst up, I’d like to point out three new T-shirts in the site store — one about doom, one about coffee, and one about zombies. I’m particularly pleased with the coffee and zombie T-shirts, because I drew the little faces with my nifty new mouse/pen/thingie that I got from ViolentClay. I’m still learning how to [...]

     ow Brer Rabbit was skipping down the road one day heading for his home in the briar patch when he spotted Sis Cow grazing in the field. It was a mighty hot day and Brer Rabbit was thirsty. Some milk would be real fine on such a warm afternoon, but Sis Cow always refused to [...]

     ld pirates retire and grow corn for a buck an ear.
     The big news of the day is that Karl Rove resigned. Here’s a damning epitaph if ever there was one: “Many remember Mr. Rove’s lofty ambitions — his talk of overseeing a political realignment that would marginalize Democrats for a generation — and think he [...]

     (inks to YouTube videos of Looking For Group, for LiveJournalers: Death to Butterflies, Making Of, Pt 1, Making Of, Pt 2, Making Of, Pt 3.)

very special first toast to AT&T for censoring Pearl Jam’s lyrics on a recent live webcast concert. The lyrics that were censored were anti-Bush. And yes, AT&T did apologize, publicly, to Pearl Jam, but it’s not the first time they’ve censored a band.
To Time Magazine for putting “horns” on Billy Graham’s head, and Marc [...]

     ee, now, this case has been pissing me off for months. As the story goes, two “heroic” border patrol agents shot a Mexican drug dealer as he was fleeing, and then were harshly punished by a grave miscarriage of justice. Horse hockey! Bull feathers, I say! I saw the prosecuting attorney on TV a few [...]

     ush signs expanded wiretap bill — President Bush signed a bill yesterday expanding the powers of spy agencies to carry out wiretap activities in the United States without a court warrant. The measure, adopted by Congress in one of its final acts before taking a month off, gives the National Security Agency and other agencies [...]