edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. 
National Novel Writing Month.
The story of man
Makes me sick
Inside, outside,
I don't know why
Something so conditional
And all talk
Should hurt me so.
I am hurt
I am scared
I want to live
I want to die
I don't know
Where [...]
Mike Harris was sitting in the coffee shop with an imposing stack of textbooks [...]
A financial crisis at home had exacerbated the problem with the Russians. A major celebrity had been found in a compromising situation with a politician. Those two stories, along with a myriad of juicy gossip and chatter, were dominating the news.
Sutton was exhausted. His team had been [...]
For the next several weeks, the colonists busied themselves with the task of putting together a viable, comfortable community. The ark ship was fully dismantled and brought down in cargo ships, all parts of it integrated into the building of communal structures. Greenhouses were built to grow the crops [...]
President Gibson sat by the fireplace in the residence wing of the White House sipping a scotch on the rocks. When Liaison Markey had delivered the news of the ark ship's arrival, Gibson hadn't immediately understood what Markey was talking about. It took a few minutes for Markey to jog [...]
Since I'm not doing regular "happy Friday" videos anymore, here's this, because it's just a great song.They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng from They Might Be Giants on Vimeo.
' [...]The media carried a brief mention of the ship's arrival, along with snippets of the President's prepared statement urging the world to “mark this historic moment and consider it in context with the petty problems of international politics.”
In Houston, Communicator Sutton had been sending messages back and forth [...]
The first part of the mission was to survey the landing site. The colonists fanned out across the rocky promontory and used their geological scanners to get a picture of the area. Mike Harris had been given the assignment to survey a small plateau to the southeast of the ship. [...]
The landing pods were coming down from the orbiting ship. On one of the pods sat young Mike Harris, a descendant of those who had begun the journey to this new colony two hundred fifty years ago.
It hadn't been easy to grow up on an interstellar ship, never' [...]
In Tulsa, enjoying a weekend with family.
First attempt to blog from my Iphone. Congrats to newly minted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. [...] 
Rachel Maddow exposes the corporate interests behind the fake grassroots campaign to disrupt health care town hall meetings, and explains how Americans are being duped into fighting against their own interests through a professional fear campaign.
In a powerful Special Comment, Keith Olbermann calls out Republicans and Democrats obstructing health care reform as the insurance industry whores that they are.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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Coming soon: something other than loldogs and videos. I promise.
I had every intention of posting some long meaningful dissertation on something or other this weekend, but life interceded, and that didn't happen. Stay tuned, though. Meanwhile, here's your Monday Loldog:
I've been inconsistent about doing these every Monday - sorry about that. :-)
Or not. Apparently Disney doesn't like people posting their animations on YouTube. 
For obvious reasons. This song is a major memory marker from my childhood.
The House just passed a war funding bill, with all but five Republicans voting against it. 
and now in memory of David Carradine, who may have died from something rather embarrassing, here's this great scene from Kill Bill:
featured parts of an interview with your humble sinister blogger on the issue of marriage equality. I had some good sound bites. :-) [...] 
but if you're a gay California couple and you missed the window, you can't be.
Happy Memorial Day. I had to go in to work today because my boss is prepping for a big trial. 
Amazon Kindle. Great innovation for reading books and newspapers etc etc, or something you'll never buy because you read books and newspapers and that's good enough? And...GO! [...] 
Off work today - parents are in from out of town and we're showing them all the great things about Portland. 
I'm a bike commuter now, so here's this:
The queen of progressive talk is back on the radio. Free podcasts here:
Vermont's legislature has overridden the governor's veto to legalize marriage equality. The ball keeps rolling toward victory, folks. Call your legislators and tell them it's time to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.' [...] 
Changing the name to "Dexter" and subtitling it "A blog for straight, right-handed Christians. Isn't it great to be in the majority?" But who has the TIME...
In honor of the upcoming Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, here's this:
I don't understand the Japanese.
Here's this:
A classic.
Something I'm very excited about:
Lewis Black breaks it down. NSFW.
here's this:
Because Weird Al is funny.
Just a really good song.
Possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen:
Waffles!
Yep, these posts are back as well.
Hate government regulation? Here's an idea:
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