Hammer Mill Days

Must be the generator, Mitch. Did you use that nefarious contraption again? Probably pulled too much current, and now look at us. Clueless and in the dark. What's new, eh? Yes, my friends. More power issues here at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill. That long extension cord I had Marvin (my personal robot assistant) run from the pizza place across the street? Well, someone discovered it, unplugged it, etc. Last time I order a pizza from those cheapskates! And when we found an alternative power source (i.e. the antique store on the other side of the alley... their back door latch is a little unreliable), what happens but Mitch Macaphee, our mad science advisor, decides to crank up the old Orgone Generating Device in the basement where Trevor James Constable left it years ago, and... and... well, I hate when that shit happens. This always happens when we're between tours. People get bored, start looking for distractions. For the two Lincolns (posi and anti), it's Yahtzee - g...

The South Carolina food fight - a longstanding electoral tradition - is in full fury, the GOP candidates fighting like dogs, only this time with even bigger dogs - the Super PACs - duking it out in the same ring. This is typically when the worst tendencies come to the fore in the Republican party, and this year should be even uglier than the last two presidential cycles. In any case, let's look at some of what's being said, shall we? Gingrich in the last debate: "To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine." Hah! You've got to love this guy, don't you? He finds it "appalling" that the media would stoop so low as to open a debate with questions of infidelity. Yes, this is the same Newt Gingrich that was Speaker during much of the Clinton administration - the same Newt who made that president's extramarital dalliances a national iss...