They Will Rise Again From the Tundra

Goodbye, Battlestar Galactica.

It took me nearly a week to finally sit down and write this post, to shake off the dread, the chills, and the night sweats and claw my way to the computer to bid farewell to what? A goddamned TELEVISION SHOW. [...]

An Iraqi court handed down a sentence today for Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who became instantly famous worldwide for throwing his shoes at then-President George W. Bush back in January. Three years in prison. Three years to sit with his pejorative from that day ringing in his ears [...]

I felt it last week. Spring.

The temperature rocketed up into the high-50s, and the atmosphere became unstable. That night was marked by incessant thunder and lightning and a torrential rain that prompted a Flash Flood Warning [...]

Hey, folks. Just a brief message here announcing the grand opening of the Book of Mammoth. You should see a tab linking to it at the top left of your screen.

This is a series of stories [...]

And here we are again. Christmas Day. A low-key one now that we’ve all gotten older and tired of holiday ritual. There will be presents, and the children have returned home just like every year, but the ties are purely familial. Christmas has become joyless, though not entirely unwelcome. Sentiments that were augmented by the [...]

Illinois is not noteworthy for its scrupulous politics. The state’s back alleys are awash with tales of discarded votes and large-scale fraud—even murder—and the tendrils of corruption reach far into every level of the government. I’ll spare you the historical examples suffice it to say that Rod Blagojevich’s arrest by federal agents this morning is [...]

Perhaps I’ll have more later on the potential implications of the Obama Administration once I can wrap my head around all the potential boons and pitfalls suffice it to say that a recent issue of the Chicago Reader said it best: don’t screw this up.

In the meantime, Newsweek has released a series [...]

The week begins tomorrow. Back to the office and the choked highways. In spite of the suffocating monotony of the Chicago suburbs and my tortuous daily commute, it’s too minuscule to care in light of recent events, personal and political alike. I’ll steer clear of the personal aspects to spare you the boredom [...]

I think that’s a damn good quote. It’s catchy and true, and I’m friends with the man who said it. All good reasons that it’s been stuck in my head for a week or two.

There is a sad lining to these words, though [...]

I was going to spout out what was likely to be some tangential, disorganized rant about the perception of the middle/lower classes among politicians, most notably our presidential candidates. While I didn’t actually hear Sarah Palin’s “Joe Six-Pack” remark, I think the following article hits the nail on the head [...]

I just deleted everything I wrote about Paul Newman. It was the dumb, silly conjecture of a saddened fan and admirer of Newman’s work, and in retrospect, I’m ashamed I ever wrote it. [...]

Things are looking gloomy as we rocket toward the end of the first decade in our new century, a fouler and more hopeless one than the last. An adherence to all the flawed -isms in the world has finally done us in, and if we cannot universally accept concepts like the possibility of human-accelerated global warming or the partial validity of evolutionary theory [...]