*crickets chirping* Damn I make good S’mores… Hey baby, you really need to try these S’mores. *brief time period elapses* Told ya they were good.

I found the House panel investigating the government’s Katrina preparations and response quite entertaining. Especially when Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla admonished Leah Hodges, a black female Katrina survivor, for calling the situation on the Causeway and I-10 the “Causeway Concentration Camp”. Rep. Miller tried to get all sassy with Ms. Hodges, inferring that she didn’t know what happened in the Holocaust, but she wasn’t having it. She cut him off and simply said: “I’m going to call it what it is. That is the only thing I could compare what we went through...

I was thinking about the whole concept of world peace today when I surfed over to Dean’s World and read an entry by Scott Kirwin entitled What I Want For Christmas. His opening words got me thinking: World Peace? Nope. There won’t be peace until the last jihadi has gone to “paradise”. While the Armed Forces are doing their best to make each and every Jihadi’s “dream” come true, it will take some time before peace is possible - even through wishes. It’s quite amazing how Christianity and Islam (now Judaism) still are at odds. Over a thousand years...

Someone (a very pompous, arrogant, PhD guy) told me the following yesterday: Your know what your problem is? You are always pretending to look forward when you are really stuck in a dream. All that new wave thinking is rubbish and doesn’t have a leg to stand on against realistic, present day thinking. I guess he was expecting a long, drawn out defense of new wave thinking (whatever that is) and futurism from me. Not I. He’s too wordy to get into a long debate and I wanted to watch Amelie on DVD. So I replied: Amazing how realistic, present day thinking developed new technologies,...