Author: mike

This is too funny. Jeri Ryan, the fetish-clad Star Trek Voyager Borg Drone “Seven of Nine” ex-wife of “family values” Senatorial candidate Jack Ryan in Illinois (also a recent High School teacher), has described...

For a while now I’ve been wondering why there were so many clickthroughs to this blog entry. Then I found out it’s the number one entry in Google for “porno ice skating“. Figures.

Lots of other people have mentioned the second quote, but I did some digging and found this first quote: George Bush, February 8, 2003 Iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work...

I question the idea that young people in the CPA are not experienced. Who has experience in what we’re doing? What precedent is there for that?” … there are aspects of rebuilding a country...

“A casual look at the races of people seems to show that those using much milk are the strongest physically and mentally, and the most enduring peoples of the world. Of all races, the...

Based on a little-noticed change to obscure federal rules, the USDA [now] defines frozen french fries as “fresh vegetables” … The USDA quietly changed the regulations last year at the behest of the french...

Since March, Ukraine’s defence minister, Yevhen Marchuk, has been searching for missing missiles and other weapons that could have fallen into terrorist hands or been sold to rogue states … Marchuk has complained that...

President Bush has spent seven of every $10 he has raised for his re-election campaign, more than half of it on television ads, and is asking supporters for even more money. The Bush campaign...

I was involved in a discussion about the evolution of language on Metafilter. Someone disputed something I wrote concerning that possibly language was an unintended byproduct of undirected human evolution. Perhaps a kink in...

The [British] official also cites a complaint voiced by several British officials involved in Iraq: that their American counterparts took no pains to hide their own ideological goals in getting Iraq pacified. One described...