ANCIENT RITES AND RANTS (AND IMMORTAL BULLSHIT)

When a hurricane hits land, it suddenly starts to break down. A weak category two will almost immediately become a category one. It has some...

Of all things for the Bush Administration to choose to pick a fight over, you have to wonder why they would choose to get involved in the up...

It all started in the wake of the court settlement between Bill O'Reilly, the host of Fox News Channels "The O'Reilly Factor...

An astute historian knows, ofcourse, that Adolf Hitler was not truly German. He was Austrian. To him, this was a distinction without a diffe...

A dog has a distinct method of killing something it perceives to be a threat, or an annoyance, or as competition. Take rats for example. The...

Once again, problems with the Red Cross, only this time it's not entirely their fault. The scope of the Katrina disaster was so great, t...

No more Yahoo Groups. No more questionable web-sites. In fact, very few web sites. Period. When it gets to the point you can't even trus...

As Yule begins tomorrow, I might take some time off for meditation. It is quite possible I might not be back until January, though hopefully...

No, it is not the Iraqi election, as it is way to early to tell just exactly how long that will last, if at all. Nor do I really care. As o...

Without a doubt, to me it would have to be a group of people known as The Minuteman Project. Yes, I understand they have been much maligned ...

Notice the caveat-KNOWN villains of the year. The worse villainy, after all, is often perpetrated in the shadows, as all too often it could ...

Your first clue would be, he gave a speech Sunday Night on American television sometime around nine o'clock. After five years as Preside...

This was an easy one. Hurricanes. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Floods. Who else? Poseidon. What the hell got into this God this year? Now it's...

The Goddess Of Compassion, by whatever name you might prefer to call her, has been busy this year. Starting with the Asian Tsunami, and endi...

A word about something that happenned just yesterday, a power outage that blocked out power in the entire area. All the homes, restaurants, ...

Last night I watched on Spike TV the Video Game Awards, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, and featuring such luminaries as Charlize Thereon, who ...

I thought I would share this link, for now I will just keep it here. But be sure and check it out, and let me know what you think of it, if ...

Well, tonight may be a Full Moon to remember, for while the Sun is in oppossition to the Moon tonight, it is also in a nearly complete conju...

This is my own special eggnog recipe, and I will warn you before hand it is quite extravagant, and complicated, but if you want to give it a...

Somebody really messed up bad time when it comes to Iraq, and it seems like the mistakes have just been coming in a steady stream, with no a...