Just when you think the American Government could not over-reach anymore, “Fred”:http://www.unreality.net/weblog/fishes.html tells us “the US is considering annexing space”:http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20030522S0050.
Well, not quite. But for all intents and purposes.
The only consolation I have is that after the “starvation of the Federal Government”:http://www.thudfactor.com/archives/002640.php#002640, we won’t really be able to hold on to space anymore, will we?

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Once upon a time I could say of both parties “they really want the best for people, they just have different ideas of how to do it.” And, generally speaking, I sided with the Democrats.
The new Republican breed—since Gingrich’s Contract on America—has had me doubting that position. And now, with a Republican Congress and [...]

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I just finished reading Terry Pratchett’s _Night Watch_. For a Pratchett novel it’s on the weak side, but I don’t think you can beat some of the direct political commentary that’s creeping into his stories.
For example, towards the end of the book, Winder (the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork) is assassinated* by revolutionaries. The revolutionaries install their [...]

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I’m not sure how I feel about this, but I have learned one important lesson: never “misunderestimate” the level of corruption and duplicity in the Bush government.
Rightwingnuts take note: I gave the Bush administration “the benefit of the doubt”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2003/05/01/conspiracy-theory/. I said:
bq. Did we invade Iraq just to save face? Is this our way of [...]

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More accurate but less funny than mine: “another Geek test”:http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html!
I scored 48.71795% (Super Geek).

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