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About Me

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

My Interests

Aviation design, and history, Modern military history, most history and science, astronomy, physics, chemistry, electronics, reading, movies, cartoons, politics, drinking scotch, Star Trek, Star Trek w/ scotch, staying up late, and being a geek in general.

I'd like to meet:

Optimus Prime, Your mom, Stephen Hawking, no, really, your mom is totally hot.

Music:

Tool, Beastie Boys, The Avalanches, The Beatles, Deftones, Metallica, Pearl Jam, They Might Be Giants, Gorillaz, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Guns N' Roses, Warren Zevon, Sublime, Alice in Chains, Jurassic 5, Paul Simon,

Movies:

The Ususal Suspects, 2001 A Space Odessey,Layer Cake, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Blade Runner, Smokey and the Bandit, Batman 1 and 2, Killing Zoe, Full Metal Jacket, Caddyshack, Star Trek II Wrath of Kahn, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dune, Team America World Police, A History of Violence, Old Jackie Chan, Airplane!, Naked Gun, Layer Cake, 16 Blocks, Boondock Saints, Jet Li's Fearless,

Television:

Heros, Family Guy, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, The Shield, Lost, Futurama, Law and Order (Only the original kind, thank you), MST3K, Heros, Simpsons, Nova, Modern Marvels, almost anything educational, oh yeah and COPS.

Books:

Snow Crash, Cryptinomicon, It, Ender's Game, The Republic, A Farewell to Arms, The Dark Tower or Gunslinger series by Stephen King, The Worthing Saga, Dune, Zodiac, The Watchman, The Curve of Binding Energy, Basin and Plain, The Dark Knight Returns, The Diamond Age, The Sandmen

Heroes:

Hawking, Einstein, Tesla, Turing, Hubble, Rambo, The Terminator. (But only from 1&2)

My Blog

Extreme Politics

Politics In The ExtremeYou have to give these Republicans credit, you really do. They are changing the rules of the game right in front of our eyes and daring the Democrats to do something a...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:36:00 PST

Health Hazards

Dover Bitch caught the same Bush health care speech I did earlier and (among other things) makes a good point about Bush's cavalier attitude in this comment: He said something pretty wise, though. He ...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:34:00 PST

Just Don't Talk About it...

Wow. Check out today's testimony from Bush's last Surgeon General, Dr Richard Carmona: "Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:33:00 PST

Rattle the cage

TALLAHASSEE - Internal city memos show the issue of Republican "vote caging" efforts in Jacksonville's African-American neighborhoods was discussed in the weeks before the 2004 election, contradicting...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:32:00 PST

If you have to ask, then you cannot afford it.

I don't know why we can't talk about this: The boost in troop levels in Iraq has increased the cost of war there and in Afghanistan to $12 billion a month, and the total for Iraq alone is nearing a ha...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:30:00 PST

We're all on the same team, right?

The Vatican set itself on a collision course with other Christian faiths Tuesday, reaffirming the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church in a corrective document which it said was designed to clear up r...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:28:00 PST

Why does he think it does not apply to him?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney's office refused to cooperate with an agency that oversees classified documents, then tried to abolish the office when it challenged the actions, House o...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:19:00 PST

Should Democrats Endorse Coathangers As Moral?

Again, to be clear, this is not about personal opinions about terminating or completing pregnancies. This about demanding the government regulate pregnancy and reproduction in accordance with one sp...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:28:00 PST

Where do the Candidates Stand on Healthcare?

Healthcare: where the candidates standMost 2008 presidential candidates address healthcare on their websites, but the amount of detail varies considerably. Here's some basic information from the sit...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:21:00 PST

Attention, Atheists! You Are Wrong. There Is A God.

And His name is Dick Cheney, a supernatural being answerable to no earthly power: The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempte...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:23:00 PST