So . . . for the first time in a long, long while, I'm changing my avatar. Go to the forums. Check it out. Tell me what you think of it. I don't know if I can go without my customary little "devil face" or not. It was just so wondrously descriptive of me . . . Let me know, people.

B-B-B-B-BREAKING NEWS! The Associated Press has discovered that the Bush administration may be close to closing the doors on the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, de facto "home" to many terror suspects and other detainees for all these years now. Of course, after the breaking of the story, the backpedaling begins. From the article: Three senior administration officials spoke about the discussions on condition of anonymity because they were internal deliberations. Expected to...

Oh, people are so excited to proclaim that the president has an approval rating of 29%. (Who am I kidding? I'm in the 71%. I don't approve of how almost anything has been handled by this administration.) But what people seem to be ignoring is that congress currently has an approval rating of 23-29%, depending on the source. I was one of the few who had high hopes with the regime change in early 2007. I hoped, maybe we'll be able to finally make a difference now that someone else ...

Once again, President Bush has vetoed a bill regarding funding for stem cell research, calling the research "unethical". I've gotten into this before on this site, and I still don't understand President Bush's position. These stem cells are going to be flushed down the toilet . Put them to good use. I already know the reaction I'm going to get from the majority of the people on this site - "why should federal funding go to any research, regardless of how it's funded?" My answer?...

People are loud. They persist in yelling, talking at the top of their lungs, and shouting into screens and at each other. And on stupid cell phones. Sometimes I just want to throw my cellphone in the garbage disposal and enjoy watching it get eaten by the spinning metal blades. -- Doctor Who for the win. Especially the new Series Two. David Tennant is my favorite Doctor ever. Hard to believe that anyone would ever take Tom Baker's place as the coolest Doc ever. But hey – the (gee...

I recently read a letter in the Reader's Forum of a local newspaper, The Salt Lake Tribune . The author of this particular piece was specifically talking about Mitt Romney, criticizing him for saying that he and his family are patriotic when his sons, rather than serve in the military (which I guess, according to the author, is the only true way to be a patriot), served as missionaries for the LDS church for two years. He further stated that "country should be placed before God". That d...

I have sat here, watching a televangelist on TV. There is nothing holy, Christlike, or Godly in his talk. For an hour now, he has spoken about “sowing a thousand dollar seed” and that if the 300 people that God has chosen will give their 1000 dollars, they will be made millionaires. Of course, they have to put a disclaimer on the bottom that says “Miracles are blessings of God and Inspiration Ministries cannot guarantee miracles.” Except that's not what the guy is saying – he's promisin...

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show. The name itself is enough to strike fear into the hearts of internet surfers everywhere. I love you, Kiko, and your guests, Pereontorogist Lick Poop and Chief Itchy Balls. We're all juicy inside, after all. LOL

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show. The name itself is enough to strike fear into the hearts of internet surfers everywhere. I love you, Kiko, and your guests, Pereontorogist Lick Poop and Chief Itchy Balls. We're all juicy inside, after all. LOL

What's with all these crappy drivers? Here I am, driving for my job, and you have to be all slow. Come on, guys, I'm on a schedule – if you're not passing, get out of the “passing lane”. That's what the stupid left lane is, people – for passing. Shut up and move. -- All work and no play makes Jack an asshole. -- Green Carnation is the exact band I needed right now. It's great metal, and it rocks plenty hard. But it's not as morose, melancholic, and solitary as the doom metal...

I should probably put these all in one article, but I'm having more fun posting them separately. blue - black hair, curves of hips, waist, breasts, perfection. Abbreviated again.

Darkened alleyways, Sweat, garbage, blinking street lights. Night in the city.

Another abbreviated haiku. Sugared, cold, Drifting fields of white. Frozen time. I'm just thinking of winter.

This haiku is written in shorter traditional form, eschewing the 5-7-5 scheme in favor of a 3-5-3 scheme. Carnations: Shifting pinks, blues, greens, noise erupts. (I don't expect anyone to get the reference in this except for BlueDev. And he doesn't usually do the poetry thing, so there.)

"Death" Death. Perky young girl, black clothes, gold ankh, windswept hair - Should a boy love death? (Inspired by Neil Gaiman's imagining of Death from the graphic novel series "The Sandman".)