If the Democrat nominee ends up being someone who’s for staying the course in Iraq and following a similarly activist foreign policy, continuing to be a bully abroad, I may have to vote for them.

This plan to allow illegal immigrants= to fill “jobs Americans don’t want” will have been the straw that broke this camel’s back.

As you can see on the recently-updated smicollum.net, there’s a wedding ofoto account. So if you took any pictures, put ‘em up, por favor.

P.S. there’s at least one in which Becky looks smokin’ hott.

Both the Washington Post and the NY Times have editorials this week blasting the ever-increasing deficit.

Of course, I like Krugman’s best but they both have the same message. The Bush economic plan of cutting taxes while raising spending will eventually send the economy to hell in a handbasket. There is no credible forecast that could possibly say otherwise.

On another website I’m arguing about whether banning cellphones in cars will really reduce traffic accidents. To prove my point, I went to this website where I was able to design my own queries and pull data from the National Center for Statistics & Analysis’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Web-Based Encyclopedia.

I show in 2002 the following data:
17 Fatal Crashes due to Emotional Driver Related Factors
165 Fatal Crashes where Cell Phones were present in car
18 Fatal Crashes where Cell Phones were in use
155 Fatal Crashes where Sleepy Driver Related Factors

I can see why the LIAR track is so popular with those in the Dean camp – it’s way, way too easy to do.

Take this story for example:

Howard Dean committed Friday to taking taxpayer dollars to finance his presidential campaign … Like Dean, Al Sharpton, former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich are committed to taking public financing and the spending limits that come with it, aides said. … He promised to make it an issue in the Democratic primaries if any of his rivals decide to skip public financing, as President Bush did en route to winning the Republican nomination in 2000.

Oooops – Guess Dean lied Or did he just change his mind?

Even the other candidates are smelling blood on this one: “Just like President Bush, Howard Dean has effectively undermined campaign finance laws for his own personal, opportunistic political advantage,” said Dick Gephardt’s campaign manager. Isn’t that like the Democrat form of excommunication?

To the Doc.

Hope your lovely bride smuggled some real beer back into Oklahoma with which to celebrate..

I can’t remember where I first saw Pathetic Geek Stories…I think it was an obscure ‘zine I bought while on a road trip. They’ve moved online including an extensive archive of their illustrated tragic real-life stories of nerds in bloom. Somehow I always seem to empathize.

Learning to juggle three balls took a little skill and I figured it out within an hour. Learning to do more than a three-ball juggle has been a lifelong failure for me. In the same manner, Juggler starts off pretty easy and quickly degenerates.

It was a little wierd to wake up this morning and discover that Robert Scheer and I had the exact same thought — ??Why, for heaven’s sake, would a divine power described in scripture as supremely wise and just employ a self-indulgent, partisan hack with a history of bigotry and greed as his spinmeister? … Robertson missed the point, the voice said.?? I guess it is time to start my own prayer circle.