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Happy 4th

2008-07-04T16:48:25Z

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

And now - Mars.

2008-05-26T12:48:28Z

The Phoenix Lander made a nice touchdown Sunday night on the Arctic plains of the planet mars.

I like that in our collective imaginations, Mars has become... well, just a place. Like the top of some terribly high and distant Everest.

And today, it's a little bit closer.

Not Acceptable. Please Write.

2008-05-26T04:32:28Z

Sunday, Faux News Nobody Liz Trotta joked about how she hoped that Obama would be assassinated.

Follow the link for the Video and for email addresses you can write to.

Please take a moment to write. This "gaffe" happened during the holiday weekend and the media may choose to ignore it. But we must not.

There will always be gaffes on live TV, and generally, we shouldn't get bent out of shape over them - but this is far beyond the pale. Fox news can be openly partisan if it wants, but there has to be a line, and it has to be enforced. They may NOT call for the assassination of the candidates they do not like.

Liz Trotta must apologize. And then she must be fired with prejudice. And then she should be investigated by the Secret Service in case she is planning anything violent.

Thank you.

Daily Guinea Pig!

2008-05-13T14:34:13Z

Have you looked at the Daily Cavy today?

Wizardy!

2008-05-06T13:42:24Z

Here's a good one - a substitute teacher fired for performing a magic trick - apparently they've accused him of Wizardry!

As Bugs Bunny observed- "What a bunch of maroons!"

This doesn't have anything to do with Florida being a Red State, does it?

Measles

2008-05-03T14:18:42Z

I've been very disappointed to see that Obama, McCain, and Clinton all jumped on the "I am suspicious of vaccinations" bandwagon. All over the US, people are drifting away from vaccinating their kids. But the evidence is that vaccinations are safe - and we really do not want the old diseases back, the ones that used to prey so heavily on children - like Measles (you have to click past an ad to read the article).

Free Comic Book Day

2008-05-03T13:49:24Z

Today is Free Comic Book Day.

Don't just sit there - take a kid to a comic book store! (the Bongo Comics Free-For-All look pretty good!)

Black Gold

2008-05-03T12:49:01Z

According to the AP:

"My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East"
-John McCain

Hey, guess what kids? It turns out all that fighting was about Oil!

How'd have guessed that?

OMFG

2008-05-02T14:23:02Z

Remember feminism?

I don't think anyone does.

This is the sort of thing that just drains the hope out of you.

Websites? We've got Websites!

2008-04-28T21:45:50Z

Supernova has started a new website: The Daily Cavy! You should check it out every day and get your dose of beautiful Guinea pigs!

Also, you might help her out by clicking that link a lot, cause Google is watching!

As for me, I've been plugging away at my webcomic, which continues to be the GREATEST thing you are not reading every day. Why not check it out at Rocketship A Go-Go?

And on the "geeky news" front, I ran an actual role-playing game the other night. Can you believe it? I've totally given up being Kewl and gone back to being geeky. How shall I impress all the girls now?

fiction

2008-03-23T15:17:00Z

These are the sorts of things i when i stroll through my files.

6-1. Third shift. The Command Deck.

I had taken Ops for Ensign Wing while she was "getting some synthcoffee". Lt Cyberia, the Simulate, was on helm. Lt Commander Zhang had the Big Chair. She was in her "mostly-human" phase, thank finagle.

It was a quiet shift. We were cruising interspace to the Lesser nebulae on a milkrun, low-pri, supernominal. Even Universe Class Hypercruisers like the X.X. Inconcievable make milkruns sometimes, ours just cost more.

Zhang was reading the dailies. Cyberia was doing an old-Earth Crossword puzzle. He had a lot of strange affectations like that, but hey, give him a break, he was the smartest sentient in the Sextant, and just a short Looey on his sleeve for the trouble.

at 6-3 we had some trouble with uncondensers. One of the Spung was on Engineering, and handled it pretty quick. Honestly, they are nice folks, I guess, but I can never tell the Spung apart. Call me a vertebraniac, but they dont even have any differenetiated tissue, for finagle's sake.

by 6-5 i was wondering what had happened to Wing. Had she gone for a tryst one of her poddies again? That perv. I was stuck on station for the whole shift then. She'd pay for that.

At 6-6, Cyberia looked up. "Lt Commander Zhang, I have discovered a new form of sentient life."

Zhang snapped to attention. "Scanners! Comp! Lights up! Cyberia, where is it? What is it?" The Mainscreen was obviously blank.

"It is here sir. This very crossword puzzle."

"Dont be a sploosh-head," Zhang said. Zhang was known for her informality. "How can a crossword puzzle be sentient?"

"The interaction of these clues and answers, taken in totality with the previous three years of daily puzzles, in sequence, indicates to me that we have, since the dawn of crossword puzzles, been creating and training a 6th order algorithmoidal Zentity that.."

"Yes, yes, I get it," Zhang said. I thought I heard the Spung snickering, but if Zhang heard, she ignored it. "So, this puzzle-thing. Are they mad at us for, well, solving them all the time? are they going to attack or anything?"

"No sir. I think they wants to join the Uncommonwealth. It is possible that being solved is an integral part of their life-cycle. I speculate that we may soon have a crossword puzzle-based Ensign who..."

"Fine, that's fine. Log it. The Admiral will want to deal with it himself when he gets up."

"Very good sir. The Crossword puzzle Zentity may in fact desire to ally with us against the Anamoly, since..."

"Lt Cyberia?"

"Yes sir?"

"In the morning."

The Simulate appaeared to sigh a bit, and gave in. "As you say sir."

"And Cyberia, maybe you should put that puzzle away until then."

"Yes sir."

Zhang order the lights back down and settled into the Big Chair with buried her face in her hands, and the rest of the shift passed in total silence. It was going to be a long, long run to the Lesser Nebula.

I started to plan my revenge on Ensign Wing.

Iraq: The First 5 years

2008-03-22T20:06:20Z

Iraq: The First 5 years

There's something odd about the anniversary - lots of (conservative) pundits have articles and interviews, talking about their personal journey and all that. But actual anti-war voices are still mostly outside of the public discourse.

I find this odd.

I mean, I said the war would go badly. I was proven right. Surely people should be asking my opinion about things moving forward, now that I am established as a person who was right about things?

When I am gone, people will say "That Stacey - she was right on the iraq war, right about the war on terror, right about global warming, right about evolution and torture and all those other things - it's too bad she was such a hippie though, you can't blame us for not listening to a hippie!"

Morning Politics.

2008-03-19T11:51:02Z

Right after 9/11, the very Reverend Jerry Falwell went on national TV and said that God sent us 9/11 because he was mad at America - something about gay people and women having the vote.

Boy, it's a good think Senator Obama didn't go to that church - he might be in trouble now. Can you imagine a religious authority daring to say bad things about America?

Age-old dream

2008-03-03T00:40:03Z

"You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down— up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order— or down to the totalitarianism of the ant heap, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course."

That's actually a Reagan quote, and he's complaining about how the left is drifting towards totalitarianism - they want government to offer too much security, and so on.

And yet, if you just read the quote for what it says, it sure sounds like a complaint about the current administration, doesn't it?

I'm with Reagan - when a conservative tells you (as Romney did recently) that "Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive..." (notice the verb "kept") then that age-old dream of the ultimate individual freedom consistent with law and order that Reagan spoke of has been lost.

Let's not trade any more freedom for security - regardless of their good motives, let's step away from their downward course.

No third term.

Good Old days

2008-02-28T16:01:33Z

via Andrew Sullivan, a reminder.

Why Republicans are Cowards

2008-02-16T15:07:12Z

I often find myself at a loss when it comes to politics. I never seem to fit in with the liberals or the conservatives. I always seem to want to fit in with the liberals, but somehow, that generally doesn't work.

So i was very happy to find this post today:

I'm not scared: Why Republicans are Cowards (and why we should say so!)

Because there's more to patriotism than being afraid of your shadow.

Real

2008-01-25T18:35:41Z

I am not keeping it real today.

Is that bad?

Rocketship A Go-Go

2008-01-16T21:07:07Z

Hey - Read my webcomic.

Seriously. I'm no good at selling things, and this is my personal blog, so i feel no need to be circumspect. i work really, really hard at this comic. It dominates my free time and all my other times as well. If you're thinking "no one ever sees Princess Stacey anymore" this is the reason.

And it's really good.

Rocketship A Go-Go is Sci-fi adventure with a light touch. It's a daily webcomic with likeable characters and wondrous mysteries. Its drawn in a crisp, clear style and it has a wonderful mixture of modern and retro Sci-fi sensibilities. Its part 1950's monster movie and part family friendly transfest. Its got handsome tomboys and beautiful androids. Its got values. Its got glamour. It has lizard-men and giant ants and spaceships and testy robots. It puts friendship first.

Our slogan is "Together into the Unknown!" Frankly, the slogan alone should sell you.

Several hundred people read Rocketship A Go-Go every day. Don't you wish you were one of them?

Look at it this way - if a few hundred thousand people read my comic, they will turn it into a big time movie with, like, Devon Aoki and Clea DuVall and Leisha Hailey. And then they will pay me a lot of money and I will be rich. And if I'm rich, I can afford clothes and stuff, and I can go out and you'll see more of me.

Doesn't that sound nice?

So read my damn comic. Then tell all of your friends to read it. Then, send it to all your favorite blogs.

I'll totally owe you one.

Your Daily Kitten

2007-12-28T17:55:28Z

River is today's Daily Kitten.

Obviously, we are terribly proud.

Matthew 6:5-6

2007-12-07T13:39:43Z

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Meet River

2007-12-06T00:50:16Z

A week and a half ago, someone found a kitten hiding in a paper bag out in the freezing rain. The kitten was starving and wild. They took the kitten to their vet.

On Sunday, she came home to live with us.

Meet River, the latest addition to our family.

River arrived under weight, under developed, and kinda feral.

On Sunday, River mostly hid from us.

On Monday, River hid from us a lot. We started to catch on just how little experience she had with people. We found her to be a mysterious mystery.

On Tuesday, River played a little bit. It was obvious to us that she was still too weak and sick to be a proper kitten. We took her to City Cats in Arlington where some expert care (and saline) put a new sparkle into her eye.

Now River is starting to act like a kitten. She's lobbying to be given the run of the house so she can meet Dali and Barda (um, not yet) and she's been trying to figure out how to enter the village and meet Gorgo and Tillicus who really, really fascinate her (sorry, but no).

She plays crazily - almost as much as you'd expect from a kitten. Today, for the first time, she really asked for food - and at last, she's starting to eat like a starving cat should eat.

River has a lot to learn. She doesn't know much about being a Kitten, or being a cat. I think we confuse her terribly. And she's just so small and scrawny that it can be a little scary.

But she lives here now. She has a home. She has a family. She has all the catfood, treats, and chicken soup she wants.

Merry Xmas River, and welcome home.

Fresh Air

2007-12-03T12:35:31Z

The latest national polls contain an odd note of Hope. With Obama and Huckabeee both doing well, you can almost imagine the two of them getting nominated.

Wouldn't Huckabee vs Obama be great for the country? Perhaps I'm being starry-eyed, but i feel like it would be a big step toward dismantling the Clinton-Rove blue-red split that is so damaging to our country.

At least, I think it would be a good step in that direction.

bdsm

2007-10-25T14:03:36Z

These quizzes just never seem accurate to me.

Do you have an inclination for BDSM?
created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Domination
Sex is about power and you like to be powerful. It's nice to be in charge and get what you want. And being in a position where people will do what you say is exciting.

Domination

82%
Sadism

79%
Experimental

75%
Exhibitionism and Voyeurism

61%
Switch

57%
Bondage

54%
Degradation

46%
Masochism

39%
Vanilla Sex

39%
Submission

32%

But oh well.

A political moment

2007-10-19T12:37:49Z

Questions For the GOP candidates, from John Cole.

1.) “Would you have sex with a man to stop a terrorist attack?”

2.) “If lowering taxes results in increased revenues then would lowering taxes to zero result in infinite revenues?”

3.) “If you had a time machine, would you travel back in time and abort Bin Laden?”

Bigot

2007-09-27T16:42:20Z

General Peter Pace is a bigot.

But don't worry, I promise I totally respect your bigot.