Another one bites the dust.

I have finally finished "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon. It is an epic novel about Sam Clay and Joe Kavalier who are the legendary creators of the superhero known as the Escapist. You'll travel to a time when comics were just getting started and continue until their collapse due to a belief that comic books seduced the innocent into amoral behavior. It is a Jewish novel, so you will also face the apathy of people towards the Jewish people, and you will discover their helplessness as Joe struggles unsuccessfully to save his family from a war-torn Europe.

And yes, even Stan Lee makes an appearance.

The book is heavily recommended. For my next quest, I think I'll finally finish "Watership Down" and then head on over to the less intensive reading of L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Don't die.

Rumble,rumble, rumble!

Once again, the "end times" are among us. Every generation tends to believe that their generation will be the the last generation.

This generation is intent on using technology in hopes to usher in the second-coming of Jesus. Numbers states some obsure myth prophecy that an unblemished red heifer must be sacrificed to pave the way for the messiah. So, of course, there are people breeding red heifer's in hopes of satisfying that clause. Others are intent on funding the way for Jews to move to Israel, and convert them to Christianity.

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Even when all hope is lost, there's always a cheeseburger.

Fox News is reporting that since 2003 500 WMD have been found in Iraq. Its only several paragraphs later that we find out that the weapons were manufactured before 1991, which means by the time we invaded, the weapons had degraded to the point of unusability.

The report is misleading, and the Republicans know it. But, pre-election wrangling will more than likely cause more such reports to surface to make it seem like the President and mostly Republican Congress has actually done something good for us in their years of office.

Senator Santorum tried to persuade viewers that finding the declassified report proved we needed to be in Iraq. Unfortunately for him, Alan Combs, a Fox news analyst, called in saying: "Jim Angle who reported this for Fox News-quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they already been degraded. And the official went on to say that they are-these are not the WMD's this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had-and not the WMD's for which this country went to war. So the chest beating that the Republicans are doing tonight thinking this is a justification is not confirmed by the defense department."

So much for Santorum.

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Curse you, Bob! You have foiled me for the final time!

AT&T has, interestingly enough, changed its privacy policy. Frankly, under the new policy, you have no privacy. Any data you happen to give to AT&T is subsequently property of AT&T and they can do with it as they will.

Congress, it is time to pass laws stating data involving our personal selves belongs solely to us. Should we wish AT&T to rid themselves of any personal data, they should be required to. Should we request data about ourselves which we have allowed AT&T to collect, we should be required to have access to it. Should AT&T sell/give our data to someone else without our permission, or probable cause of wrong doing, then AT&T should be required to compensate us monetarily and whoever authorized the exchange should be spending some time behind bars.

This is a frightening step AT&T has taken.

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I think its time we all took a break.

Despite being rejected by Congress multiple times, the Broadcast Flag is once again trying to creep its way into being.

Read about it here and find more about it here.

Don't die.

There is no such thing as breakfast food.

You can't get a good teenager down. Invent something to annoy the crap out of a teenager, and they'll turn it into a tool to use against you.

Recently, a high-pitched whine created to deter teen loitering has been used by teenagers to communicate between one another. And the adults thought they were being smart.

Don't die.