Hammer Mill Days

I don't know, Mitch. It could work, or maybe not. Let's give it a shot, then. Just promise me one thing - no launch tests in the courtyard, okay? Last time you tried a stunt like that the neighbors called in the local SWAT team. It took all of our collective savings to get Marvin (my personal robot assistant) out of jail. Oh, hi. Just settling a few details with our mad science adviser, Mitch Macaphee, recently repatriated from the dwarf planet Ceres. Mitch is helping us plan the launch of Big Green's newest venture. Let me give you the background. You've all heard of Bas Lansdorp's Mars One project, no doubt. Lansdorp is inviting volunteers to go on a one-way mission to colonize Mars. He says he can get the whole thing going in time for a 2025 launch date. Well, here at Big Green's abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, we way that's pure bullshit. Lansdorp is obviously engaging in gross exaggeration - an exercise in self-aggrandizement, no doubt. 2025 indeed! T...

As you can see, Netanyahu (I won't call him "Bibi", as cute nicknames seem kind of inappropriate for mass murderers - like calling Suharto "Susu", etc.) won re-election again. Predictions of his political demise were somewhat premature. As Ali Abunimah pointed out , he basically pulled the same tactic he used in 1996: wait until the last days of the election, then make a big push for the bigot vote, crying alarms about the Arabs "voting in droves" and how the Israeli center-left is a bunch of surrender monkeys. Works every time, apparently. Likud pulled down 30 seats in the Knesset, considerably more than was predicted and against most of the polling (including exit polls). What's ugly about this is that the man who ordered the killing of more than 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza last year, including many children, and destroyed much of what was left of Gaza's already distressed infrastructure, that man has been rewarded by the voters in Israel. A...