People who use the term "Flyover States" or think "Middle America" is interchangeable with "Dumb-Ass" should be kicked in the nuts. Seriously. Just because you live near an ocean doesn't make you special. You want culture, we've got plenty, and we don't consider it to be just something for the elite. We have some of the …

A group calling themselves "Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War" disrupted Easter Mass at Holy Name Cathedral. Apparently, they determined that the best venue to voice their opposition to the war was: A) In a Church B) In a church that has vocally opposed the war C) During a service D) During a service on one of …

Friday evening, when I got home from work, I noticed that my internet connection was down. A quick check showed that my cable was also out. I called Comcast and they had my do the usual things. You know, check that the connections were tight... check other channels. Because when both cable receivers and the modem …

From NewsTarget.com by way of Digg The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the …

A quote from "The Audacity of Hope" by Barak Obama I'd begun to see how any challenge to convention harbored within it the possibility of its own excesses and its own orthodoxy.... In this slow, fitful process of sorting out what I believed, I began silently registering the point in dorm-room conversation when my college friends …

So, there are commercials for Sonic Drive-In restraunts on all the freakin time. They look good. They make me want to eat at Sonic. Their advertising is so good, it gives me an almost Harold & Kumar-like craving for Sonic. And yet... yet... the nearest Sonic is in Champaign. 120 Freakin Miles Away! Damn you Sonic! …

TBWITWW and I were discussing government today after one of my comments about "dirty hippies". I mentioned that while I think my ethics match well with the fairly activist, leftist people that populate the areas we frequent, my politics don't. I'm probably most closely matched to libertarians, but really I just don't trust government... at all. …