Hammer Mill Days

Okay, so we posted a cheap-ass podcast for July. So sue me. Go hire Mr. Simon's lawyer and sue me. Things went all pair-shaped this summer, what can I tell you? The fact is, we did produce a new episode of Ned Trek. I wrote the script, with Matt's able help, we voiced it, and Matt finished editing it ... and then his computer blew up. So he's reconstructing it, in between the fifteen thousand other things he's responsible for. And it has taken longer than anticipated, right? You know the drill. Even more galling in a way is the fact that this was one of our musical episodes, which means that we produced no less than 6 original songs for the sucker. A lot of production for an episode that never got posted. Still ... it will go up, eventually. Just wait and see. (Or hear.) Anyway, we thought we'd take this opportunity to re-run one of our favorite Ned Trek episodes, called The Wrath of Carl, in which Carl Sagan decimates the Free Enterprise crew through the awesom...

Doing something a little unusual this week. I'm going to consider watching the first G.O.P. debate, hosted by Fox News in Ohio. Granted, this will be a partial forum, leaving out seven of the magnificent seventeen. Amazing that the also-rans in this particular event almost outnumber the entire Republican field in 2012. This crowded clown car is such a stunning illustration of the extent to which the national Republican Party has lost control of their own electoral process. Either that or they have completely lost their minds. There was a day when the party could take someone aside and say, "No, no. Not this time. Next time, maybe," and the ambitious pol would refrain from competing. Now the process is being driven from the outside; it's being pushed by talk radio, conservative bloggers, and Fox News, as well as foundation-funded think tanks and 401(c)3's and 4's. If I were a Republican, I would be disgusted by this lack of discipline. There is no way to fost...