Merry Christmas everyone.  I’m getting primed for New Years Eve and things will probably slow down even more around here while I sort out the issues with my web-development stuff.  Expect Echoes and Mirrors to move soon.  Also, I’m not sure if Craig has plans to post here anymore – he just started a new [...]

Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again: STOCKHOLM – A giant straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition, to the dismay of local leaders. Every year I see this article, it brings joy to my heart. Why can’t the city just understand [...]

Gordon Brown finally admits that England was wrong to prosecute Alan Turing – who may have done more to save England from total destruction in WWII than any other man alive – for being gay. England just can’t stop trying to one-up us with past misdeeds. I spotted this on the relevant Fark.com thread and [...]

RedWhiteBlue Patriotism. Dig it.

The Declaration of Independence When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a [...]