Well, the Whitehouse still seems to be trying to get away with torturing people. I don’t understand, given the volumes of knowledge that have been accumulated over the many centuries since the Inquisition that show that torture is an unreliable means of interrogation which guarantees getting bad intel, why it is being so carefully […]

Well, on Wilma’s tail, that tropical wave that had formed by the Lesser Antilles has now developed into TD 25.
The NHC is forecasting TD Alpha later today.
It’s a pretty compact storm at the moment, and most of the models show it getting absorbed by the same system that is expected to interact with Wilma before […]

Well, either NWS hasn’t caught it yet (or they haven’t had time to announce it due to all the work tracking Wilma) but there is a nasty looking tropical wave hanging out near the Lesser Antilles that could wind up being a 1-2 punch, if it hits the same ultrawarm water that caused Wilma to […]

Well, Wilma has quite litterally exploded.
She is now another Cat 5, with wind speeds of 175 mph, and a pressure of 884 mb. This is the lowest pressure of a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin in history. The scary thing is, this could still grow… it is kind of a similar set […]

Like the House of User, in the famous Poe tale, the Republican Party has been suffering lately of “a constitutional and a family evil.” Of course, that is hyperbole, but only just so.
We (as a country) have been living with the notion that someone in the Whitehouse identified a CIA agent to the media, […]

You’ll probably find a small orange pill bottle that says Lorazapan. Why don’t you do us all a favor and take a handfull with a gin chaser ya bastard…
FAH-Q.