Hammer Mill Days

No, no - that is Antares. This is Betelgeuse. And Kaztrofarius 137b is way over here, not here . Jesus christmas, Mitch! I thought you said you could read maps. Okay, well... that's great. Only the third leg of ENTER THE MIND 2010: THE ULTIMATE BIG GREEN EXPERIENCE - our current interstellar tour - and we're freaking lost like a bunch of rubes in blindfolds feeling their way around Manhattan. When? When will I stop listening to people when they tell me shit that isn't true? Mitch Macaphee, a man who can build robots, invent planet-busting snake oil, and repair an ion-drive engine with egg cartons and bailing wire, told me that he was an expert with star charts. Well, guess what. He exaggerated. Slightly. Just slightly. Like... not at all. How lost are we? Hard to tell. I asked Marvin (my personal robot assistant) what he thought, and he just blinked his lights on and off for a minute or two, said nothing. A deathly silence from this man of brass. Not a good sign when you...

Just a few thoughts prior to the most expensive mid-term elections in U.S. history. Don't abstain. You've heard this before from wiser people than me. You've even heard it from me . In any case, here it is again - don't stay home on election day. Go out and vote. Vote against the money tide from corporate America. Make their Supreme Court-sanctioned pay-to-play electoral machine useless to them. It only works if we cooperate by failing to oppose their favored candidates - don't. Get out there and mark those ballots - again, not because that's the only thing that needs to happen in order to build a better world, but because it's necessary to keep the media-fueled G.O.P. "tsunami" myth from materializing. I'm most particularly addressing this message to folks in states like Wisconsin, where you are represented by the finest member of the U.S. Senate. For god's sake, don't replace Feingold with some vacuous millionaire CEO. And for those ...