April 28th, 2005 I posted a journal entry entitled: Response to KJ's "Death To A Traitor" . In it I had posted some very pragmatic reasons for being against the death penalty, but today there is a CNN.com news story: "Midnight execution looms for killer, 76"

I have a short list of topics I submit to the Google News search engine frequently to keep abreast of recent developments in them. One such topic is SETI or "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence." Doing this search on Google.com's main page would return close to 10 million page matches, while the

What the hell has happened recently to television news? I used to watch CNN and Headline News, but CNN turned into some kind of mushy celebrity gossip channel peppered with fashion model runway walks. I turned over to Headline News almost exclusively in the mid 90's until somebody had the bright idea of making it into some kind of hyper multiple text prompt overlay news feed. The actual news video hard to see in its shrunken 1/4 size window in the upper right that served up the exact same clip

I've noticed a curious neurological illusion in the wake of my recent lung surgery. Surgery that went well by the way and came up negative for lung cancer (mostly the surgery was unneeded). The approximately 6 inch incision just under the right side of my right pectoral muscle (breast) has resulted in a large numb region just above and below it and extending a little further down and to the left. Obviously some substantial amount of skin nerves where severed in the surgery and only time will tel

Overhauling Intellectual Property Laws
--or--
Balancing Capitalism and Communism

My last journal entry was a bit over the top with whining as Frisky070802 pointed out (though he was kind enough not to use the word "whine"). I have indeed become overly dependant on seeing my shows at a minimum of DVD quality, and had I made the effort I probably could have caught "Six Feet Under" Season 4 on a standard definition channel and taped it to (ughhh) VHS or archive Season 5 on VHS. Instead I am watching Season 5 now (in HD) and will catch Season 4 later.

HBO - What are you thinking?

OK, here is the deal -- I like "Six Feet Under" the HBO drama a lot. HBO is now showing season 5 in HD, but I haven't seen season 4 yet. I've had HBO for close to a year now and I didn't see any season 4 episodes (I usually only check the HD offerings), and I can't just catch up on the season 4 episodes because they aren't out in DVD yet. Because the channel is encrypted I can't archive the episodes to watch later after I have watched season 4 when it comes ou

I don't know how sublime a realization this will be, but the topic of Star Trek and its various movies and spin-offs comes up semi frequently on Slashdot.com. . Chief complaints with modern Star Trek series are lack of continuity and various other inconsistencies. On the other end of the spectrum is Orson Scott Card's recently posted article Strange New World: No 'Star Trek'criticizing the original series for be

I was out surfing random blogs on blogspot.com today and came across this one: KJ's No Government Cheese and its eye catching recent post "Death To A Traitor". Being the windbag I am I couldn't resist giving KJ a rather long comment with my take on opposition to the Death Penalty even in this case.

In wake of the seeming endless string of child abductions in Florida recently, Fox has been running a cautionary news report on the ease of strangers enticing children into accompany them. Watching the demonstrator tricking a child into following him in an excerpt from a training video was creepy to say the least. It certainly demonstrated the care parents should take in safe guarding their children.

I heard Neil Cavuto on Fox News the other day explaining why the Death Tax is wrong. This seems to be a constant drum beat with the Fox crowd. I have always been FOR the Estate Tax, but Neil almost had me for a second -- only a second.

I had had it mind for sometime to do an essay on the deterioration of civility if political discourse over the years. I have recently been a part of an at times acrimonious thread of discussion on homeland security, so now seems the time to put pen to paper (err, um, fingers to keyboard). I'm not sure that my views on the subject of homeland security where correct, but I am sure the originator of the thread started with a very polarizing subject title.

While strolling through some blogs the other day I came across an entry about the documentary "Super Size Me". This was a bit of a coincidence as I had the very same movie on TV at the time, so I mentioned it to them in their comment section. Well that person wrote back asking me what I thought of the movie. So here is my response to them which I will share with you.

There is a rather shrill debate going on currently about whether Global Warming is occurring and to what degree. Let me state my opinion on the matter, based on having seen arguments on both sides -- Global Warming is happening, but at a much smaller rate than predicted by Global Warming Alarmists, and will not speed up catastrophically soon.