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Lockjaw Drives to Work Episode 01
I know I haven’t been posting a lot, lately. Since my promotion at work, I’ve been less in the mood to put in the effort once I get home. I’ve still had the urge to create, though. Looking at my day, I found one bit of slack time during which I really wanted to work [...]
World War II – Online Game Chat
If you’ve ever wondered what World War II would have been like if it was played as an online game, then this is for you. One warning is that it is laced with profanities. Another is that it is full of net-speak shorthand. It’s quite funny, but also does a decent job of accurately telling [...]
Thoughtful Article on Terri Schiavo
Ed “What The” Heckman over at Greatest Pursuits posted a lengthy, well-thought-out piece on the situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. Some of the most important points are: Terri is not “brain dead.” Terri displays behaviors that show she is not in a “Persistent Vegetative State.” “Not only is Terri able to interact with her environment, she [...]
Race Riots and Armed Blacks Protecting Rights
Dave Kopel’s latest in Reason Magazine is a good read on the race riots if the 19th and early 20th Centuries. He then goes on to point out how blacks took up arms and used them to protect the basic civil rights that the government wouldn’t. In the Wilmington, North Carolina riot of 1898, a [...]
Howard Dean Takes Fight to Red State – New York?
Howard Dean, on taking position as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made it clear that he intended to fight the Republicans by building the grass-roots, and by taking the fight to the “Red States.” It makes sense that he would start the fight for the red states by speaking in upstate New York… [...]
Clear Thinking from a Liberal Blogger
I was surfing on BlogExplosion and came across this post that I thought was very thoughtful. It was writtern by a liberal blogger who understands what this election was about to the people who voted in it, minus all the hateful invective that so often comes out in these times. “Bush got 57 million votes [...]
Gorillas in our Midst
My favorite scientific study of the year has managed to win the Ig Nobel prize in Psychology. According to the Ig Nobel website, “The winners have all done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK.” First, go to this page and view the video. When you watch, count the number of times [...]
NC Gas Tax Truth
A classic post from Lockjaw’s Xanga Page In North Carolina, the current per-gallon tax on gasoline, when you factor in both state and federal taxes, is 42.7 cents. On the WRAL Gas Price Forum I saw a low price of $1.80 per gallon. For my 16 gallon tank, that comes to a total of $28.80 [...]