Wow. What a Fucking DICK.

Meet Alexander (Sasha) Semin. Erratic sometime goal-scorer. Moody European skating fairy who fights like a girl:



Former Washington Capital. Pissy little emo bitch who signed with a division rival.

Fuck you, Sasha Semin. Headhunting in hockey is despicable and wrong, but it'll be worth the 10-game suspension that Ovie will get for destroying your poncy ass the first chance he gets.

Dick.

Suburbia

It's 5:45 PM on a weeknight in outer MoCo, and there are severe storms approaching fast. It's a favorite time for me, and I stepped onto the deck for a smoke before the storm. Lookee what I found.

Yes, the doe in the middle is taking a dump in my yard.

Unconcerned by the likes of me, the little savages continue to strip my landlord's trees.

Trippy.

Dr. Sally K. Ride, 1951-2012

Various newsers are reporting, and her company's Web site confirms, that Sally Ride died today. This sucks on a number of levels. Ride crashed several barriers during her career as an astronaut; she was the first American woman in space, and at the time of her 1983 shuttle flight, the youngest American to have travelled into space.She devoted her post-NASA career to promoting young peoples' interest in science, focusing as she should have on young women. She was a good scientist, a good astronaut, a good role model, a good Democrat. Most of all, Sally Ride was a great American.

I'm no fan of the space program in real/governmental/societal terms. I don't think it's cost-effective, especially compared to other things we could be doing with our national resources, though I recognize that cost effectiveness may be hard to measure given the implications and benefits of space science for other research, and of course I'm a wet-pantied fanboy for science fiction. All that's not relevant in light of Ride's magnitude as an icon for my generation and those that followed (she was 9 years older than me--not so old at the time of her Challenger flight as to be unhip, and certainly not so old as to be disconnected from today's young scientists).

I also find Ride's death moving because it was premature, and it was caused by pancreatic cancer, which is one of the most terrifying and despicable of cancers, one that's affected me personally. Fuck pancreatic cancer. Fuck premature death. And fuck great Americans dying early.

The Festival & c.

Yeah, it's that day. Legitimate debate rages on whether you'd rather give up a birthday bang to me, Patrick Stewart (STFU, honey), or Han Solo, but of course that's your call, because even more of course, it's all about you.

On the state of the sentient computer:





Love to all the peeps.

Of Course Their Opinion Is Intrinsically Every Bit As Valid As Yours

The Face of Communism

Hat-tip.

Ha! Made you click, hope you feel dirty. But if you ignore my little joke on some few of you and take a look at the substance, you'll get to how some right-wingers think that citing "This Land Is Your Land" means Communism. I'm not joking, and if you think they are, you're dumber than I look.

Having sat in a rural Waffle House just yesterday, suffering through "God Bless the USA" as I et my delightfully greasy, exquisitely American brekkies, all I have to say about this is:

Fuck You, wingnuts. You're too fucking stupid to be allowed to have opinions; perhaps you should just love it or leave it. Really.

Fucktards.

But Happy Fourth, and remember kids: Fuck Jefferson, that slavefucking piece of shit.