It seems the Limeys have adopted “The Gambler” as their fight song while waiting for matches to begin. It has seemed to work as England have advanced to the finals of the Rugby World Cup after beating heavily favored Australia in the quarter-final match and France in the semi-final. England’s opponent in the final will be South Africa. It is hard to choose who I will root for…will it be the people who repressed the Irish for years and will not let the country be unified, or those responsible for apartheid? Whatever the case, I will be at Brit’s this Saturday at 2 p.m. to watch it — as of now. There is a $20 cover ($10 for students) free pastries, free parking and $3.50 Heineken specials.

Send me an e-mail if you are interested in watching Saturday…

Oh, and Kenny, enough with the face lifts, OK?

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Scientists have announced that a new rock floating through space, Gliese 581 c may be a habitable planet. If this is the case, we will need to start thinking about ways to get there. Hell, we’ve been thinking about it as a species for years but we need to put aside social and political differences and really work toward finding a way to migrate to a new habitable planet. We don’t even need to live there really. We just need to be able to grow food on the planet until we find more planets capable of sustaining life.

Once we discover a planet capable of supporting farming, we can send our robo-workers to do do all the heavy lifting and humans will make future livings as Teamsters. Only we’ll all be piloting space ships delivering foodstuffs and repair parts back and forth. Ice Pirates anyone? It may have been an entertaining farce in 1984, but if we as the human race want to go out with a bang, not a whimper, then we really need to start making real progress into deep-space exploration and migration.

We need inter-galactic spaceships capable of traversing millions of miles a la Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek.

Think of it as science fiction if you must…but things change. Sometimes, fantastic stories that were once considered fiction lead to discovery.

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It was just released on the washington post site that the “gunman” Cho Seung-Hui at V-tech had written “Ismail Ax” on the inside of his arm.  This is some sort of reference to Ibrahim who used it in a violent manner to allow Islam to flourish.

This development will give this story a fairly long tail and really help the fear-mongering of the admin.  In addition I’m worried that we’ll see further justification for some of the more odious aspects of the patriot act…  It’s going to get ugly.  Buckle up.

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