Curiosity Killed the Bookworm’s 2012 Sci-Fi Challenge

I am a sucker for Sci-Fi. Having just completed the fourth book in the In Her Name series by Michael R. Hicks in just under two months and with two weeks of holiday vacation beginning on Monday I figure to be done with the sixth book just in time to seek out some new Science Fiction to consume. So as you can imagine, when I came across Ellie Warren’s 2012 Sci-Fi Challenge I couldn’t pass it up. The rules are pretty simple, you need to complete one Sci-Fi novel a month in 2012. As...

Posted by Michael Tedesco on Oct 16, 2011 | 3 comments

#OccupyVancouver

I spent the afternoon yesterday downtown Vancouver taking in the 5,000+ strong #OccupyVancouver protests, a part of the #ows Global Day of Action. Below are a few of the photos I captured. Follow me on Twitter...

Posted by matttbastard on Aug 8, 2011 | 0 comments

Facts vs. Narrative, Utoya...

Norwegian journalist Magnus Nome was in the good ol’ US of A when self-styled counterjihadist crusader Anders Breivik decided to escalate his murderous fantasies about Eurabian conquest from Outer Wingnuttia into the real world. Thankfully, CNN, Fox News et al were ready to provide informed, accurate, up-to-the-minute coverage of events on the ground: The news coverage over the following days...

Posted by matttbastard on Aug 5, 2011 | 0 comments

Another Stop Along the Roa...

The pullquote from one of David Frum’s latest eviscerations of contemporary USian conservative folly, a meditative riff on Susan Sontag’s infamous “Were our enemies right?” speech, was making the rounds yesterday (eventually getting linked by the subject of Frum’s counterfactual). And yeah, it’s sharply on point. However, a preceding passage also deserves to be...

Posted by Michael Tedesco on Aug 1, 2011 | 6 comments

Debt Ceiling Discussion An...

I know I have been M.I.A. for the past month but what better time to resurface than on the eve of the Grand Non-Compromise? As I mentioned briefly back in January, I was recently elected Chairman of the Vancouver chapter of Democrats Abroad, an extension of the Democratic Party for Americans living outside U.S. borders. Apparently along with this new gig came the privileged of having my contact info...

Posted by Kathy on Jul 6, 2011 | 4 comments

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The usual dirty leftie liberal suspects are saying that the reason Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, Caylee, is because (a) there was no direct physical evidence that Casey murdered Caylee, or even that the cause of death was murder; and (b) the defense raised a lot of reasonable doubt that the prosecution was simply not able to overcome. That is ridiculous. Here are 11 reasons...

Posted by Kathy on Jul 4, 2011 | 0 comments

Trampling on the First Ame...

This may not technically be unconstitutional, since it’s a state government that’s endorsing a particular religion not Congress or the federal government, but it’s certainly totally antithetical to the spirit of religious freedom, and to the Founders’ intent and determination to keep government out of religious practice and prescription. This is an explicitly Christian religious...

Posted by Kathy on Jul 2, 2011 | 0 comments

Andrew McCarthy: Slimebuck...

McCarthy is always repulsive, but he’s outdone his own record this time — which, believe me, is not easy to do. McCarthy’s piece is a response to Arif Alikhan, Los Angeles’s deputy mayor. Alikhan was recently appointed by Pres. Obama to the position of assistant secretary for policy development at the Department of Homeland Security. and in a previous article, McCarthy condemned the...

Posted by Kathy on Jul 2, 2011 | 0 comments

Tightening Whose Belts?

Pres. Obama said this in his weekly radio address: Government has to start living within its means, just like families do. We have to cut the spending we can’t afford so we can put the economy on sounder footing, and give our businesses the confidence they need to grow and create jobs. Mouthing right-wing talking points like a pro. Could be John Boehner or Eric Cantor at the mike, couldn’t...

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