So ends the first episode of Rich Tourists in Space. Ms. Ansari, self-described Space Participant has plopped back down to Terra Firma after an eleven-day stint in the vacuum of space.

That would be the entry in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGG) for the recent movie release of the same name.

Lili and I have been having that conversation all married couples seem to be having: what to do if one of us is incapacitated, like Terri Schiavo.

George Orwell was only half-right when he coined the term Newspeak. He applied it to government, or Big Brother, assuming that some malevolent, faceless government was intent on shaping your thoughts...

I've had little patience with the hypocrites calling themselves fundamentalist Christians, but who spout little more than thinly veiled hate-speech. So it was a pleasant surprise to hear on the radio:

I've given up hope expecting checkers at the grocery have rudimentary skills, like basic mental arithmetic...

Been noticing a lot of hits from xanga.com in our web (server) logs...

I don't know where I stand on the whole Gay Marriage thing. Or rather, I didn't, until it became headline news down the street in The City. The more I think about it, the more it seems to be a human rights thing.