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Note: This was a post I wrote and posted for July 4th, during the Bush administration. Since then we have voted in a new administration, which has more or less been the change we were promised. Still, I think it’s important to remember where we came from and what we’ve allowed our government to do, [...]

In what is, I think,the most bizarre video you’ll watch all day, someone did a techno mashup of Henry Rollins’ stand-up bit about techno and some dude who has been dubbed the “Techno Viking”. Watch and enjoy! Unless you don’t like some foul language in which case you probably would already know not to watch [...]

My mom uses Twitter. “Uses” in the sense that she lurks without posting anything. Today she received a crash course in one of the pitfalls of Twitter: to get the full idea of what’s being said, many times you have to follow both parties involved in a Twitter conversation. Earlier today @BusyDadBlog asked: Curious – [...]

In a few hours, after quittin’ time at work, Keli, Mason and I will be hitting the road for Boise, Idaho. We’re going to visit my parents and to bring Bailey back with us, as she’s been up there for a few weeks having some one-on-one time with her grandparents. If the intertubes isn’t quite [...]

Tomorrow marks one year since our nephew, Ethan, passed away and will, unfortunately, bring with it some pain, lingering questions and for me a fair amount of anger. But tonight, through some tears, I raise my glass in a silent toast to what might have been. What should have been. Ethan was and is loved [...]

Usually once or twice a week I checkout the Things From Another World site because they’re always putting up cool new things that play on my nerdy fansies. I first discovered the company when I was killing time at the Lowe’s Metreon in San Francisco while waiting for a movie to start. Their actual store [...]

Yesterday Keli and I had a baby doctor appointment after work. It was one of those quick check-ups but the kids were there so they got to listen to the baby’s heartbeat. They were pretty happy about it and were grinning ear to ear. Keli and the baby are both doing really well and the [...]

The Arkansas Supreme Court has ordered Judge Burnett to turn over new evidence in the case of the West Memphis Three (Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley & Jason Baldwin), which would require “the lower court to include a sworn affidavit by a prominent Arkansas attorney that alleges extraordinary juror misconduct in Damien Echols’s original trial.” Known [...]

There are times in everyone’s life when all you want is a friend. Maybe your girl left you or maybe it’s just been one of “those” days and you need a friend to hang out and listen. I’ve been there many times before with my friends – each being there for the other when things [...]

Defying an official ban, hundreds of thousands of Iranian supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi demonstrate in Tehran on Monday, June 15, 2009. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) When you join hundreds of thousands of your fellow disenfranchised citizens in the streets in blatant defiance of your government, do so knowing full well that they will come at [...]