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...it would be a hate crime. I don't get why the aforelinked blogger is so popular. It certainly isn't talent.

When I saw this photo, I started to choke up a little bit. Casey Owens, a wounded Marine, salutes as his mother Janna Owens cries during the inaugural speech by President Bush. Jonathan Ernst - Reuters But there was no crying. There is no crying in blogging.

Scientific American has an article on real-world quantum cryptography. It's an interesting article for anyone who's ever had an interest in cryptography. Unfortunately, Scientific American's explanation for the process of quantum cryptography is a little hard to understand. If you're looking for a good book on the subject, I heartly endorse Simon Singh's "The Code […]

Guns are bad. Really bad. At least, that's what the Academy Award-winning film "Bowling for Columbine" purported to show. America is a dangerous place with all of these gun-wielding nuts running around. Then you see this: Filmmaker Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night. Police […]

I have a suggestion for the Democrats in the Senate. If you want to make a little noise by delaying the vote on the first African-American woman to be nominated for Secretary of State, it might be a good idea to choose someone who isn't a former member of the Ku Klux Klan to put […]

From a Reuters report on President Bush's second term: The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second time, fearing the most powerful man on the planet may do more harm than good. Many world leaders, alienated by Bush's go-it-alone foreign policy and the U.S.-led […]

The new JibJab Second Inaugural Flash animation is out. Check it out.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (Idiot-Calif.) got into a verbal tit-for-tat with Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice yesterday morning. I didn't get the honor of seeing the exchange live, because I don't generally get up before the crack of noon. But seeing the replayed sound bites on TV has me convinced that Boxer is a U.S. senator […]

Watching the confirmation hearing for Condolezza Rice and I must confess that Chris Dodd, friend to Latin American tyrants and fascists, needs to be hit with a clue-by-four. Dodd's suggestion that we need to give al Qaeda terrorists Geneva Convention protections is the worst sort of idiocy. *sarcasm* No, we don't want to make al […]

The New York Times editorial board takes a final look back at the 2004 election and decides that a 4,000 vote screw-up in North Carolina's race for agriculture commissioner is an open-and-shut case against electronic voting machines. Let's not excuse the monumental screw-up in North Carolina, but the only thing more shocking than how little […]