Jack Frost's House of Horrors...

Don't you just love winter?

It makes me pine for the days I lived in Florida.

EH?

What is this?

I suppose I'll say, eventually.

Any guesses?

'nuff said...

Doctor No

Waaay back at the beginning of the James Bond films was Doctor No. Didja know that DC published a Doctor No comic? I had a copy many, many moons ago. I always wondered why they didn't do comics versions of the other films. Well, here's why.

'Nuff said...

LONDON - A 22-year-old man suffered internal injuries after lighting a small firecracker he had inserted into his buttocks, paramedics said Thursday.

The incident took place Sunday, when Britain celebrated Bonfire Night, traditionally marked with fireworks to celebrate the Guy Fawkes’ gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament in the 17th century.

The man suffered burns and other unspecified internal injuries in the incident in Sunderland, 275 miles north of London.

Katherine Shenton, a spokeswoman for the North East Ambulance Service, said a caller had phoned in that the victim was bleeding after the firecracker exploded.

Several of the man’s friends recorded the incident on a mobile phone. The blurry images show a man bent over with his pants down and a white flash as the firecracker explodes.

The Times newspaper reported the man is a soldier who recently returned from Iraq.

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Not gloating...

Okay, the election is over. The Democrats have won the house, while the senate, as of this writing, hangs on the outcome in Virginia. As George W. described it, the cumulative effect of it was getting a "thumpin'". Immediately, Donald Rumsfeld is gone. That's good news.

The bad news is that all this was necessary.

Look, I'm a lifelong Republican. In college I was a campaign volunteer for Gerald Ford. I've only voted for two Democratic candidates in my life. (if you want to know: Ford, Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Dole, Bush, Kerry.) I'm not happy about having to split with, and in the last two elections advocate against, my party.

As has been said before in other places, I did not leave my party, my party left me. In recent years it has been captured by ideologues, and they've taken it in directions I find dangerous and thoroughly destructive.

Maybe, just maybe, with this election things have bottomed out. I hope so.