Hammer Mill Days

I don't care what the sucker weighs in an alternate universe! I want to know what it weighs right here . Cheese and crackers, do I have to do EVERYTHING myself? (Where's everybody going? I wasn't serious...) Oh, hiya. Didn't hear you log on. (Usually, I'm pretty good at that.) I was just engaging in a little scientific debate with our mad, mad science adviser, Dr. Mitch Macaphee, Ph.D., D.M.S.A. (that last one stands for "Diplomate of the Mad Science Academy", and august body located in Madagascar), who claims that our weight ratios are all askew for lift off. You see, this is the problem with mad geniuses... they get this crazy idea, and it may be a really, really good idea in crazy town, but here in NORMAL-ville, it's bug fuck nuts, okay? I mean, I happen to know (from watching repeats of Lost in Space over and over again) that the Jupiter 2 space vehicle is very weight sensitive. If our cargo is off by even just a few ounces, we could go spiraling o...

I haven't been what you might call a determined dissident over my decades as an adult. Just an occasional participant at rallies, protest marches, etc. There are very many in my own small community who have given far more to the causes they believe in, and I respect them for it. Just as I respect pacifism, as someone who (while no fan of violence) is not a committed pacifist. It does my heart good to see those large numbers of protesters in the streets in Iran. This is a huge moment for them, one that many of the younger people among them, particularly, will never forget. Though the mainstream political and media pundits would probably disparage this connection, it's something like the massive anti-war actions of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which of course our popular culture has shrunken down to something akin to a flower-power postage stamp. (Just as it has reduced the civil rights movement to Martin King saying "I have a dream.") I know that the reason why we s...