First, apologies to Clinton supporters who clearly are not undereducated white bigots. Second, apologies to West Virginians who are not undereducated white bigots.
After reading this article in the LA Times about the “troubles” West Virginia may give Barack Obama next Tuesday, I say good riddance to the 65+% of those polled who say they are [...]

This is such a cool story it’s worth repeating here. Two dumbass dudes burgled $5000 worth of laptops, ipods, game consoles, and other electronics from the White Plains apartment of a woman who works at an Apple Store and who has a .Mac account. Lucky her, too bad for them. When a co-worker at the [...]

Sara and the boys left for Florida (Grayton Beach) last night for week. Safa isn’t with me until Monday. She and I were supposed to join them for the last half of the week, but things got complicated, so I’m home alone. Abandoned. The upside: All day I’ve been blasting music from my Mac Mini [...]

The other reason — besides Goya Day — that May 8th is one of my favorite days is that it is the birthday of my favorite author, Thomas Pynchon, who is — unbelievably — 71 years old today. Somehow I can’t picture him as that old. Maybe because the only image I and most of [...]

Goyaboy’s favorite holiday is today, May 8th, in Okinawa — “Goya no Hi” (Goya Day). As I have explained before, this is one of those Japanese play-on-words holidays: 5 (May) = go and 8 = ya. Read about it (in Japanese) here. This year an Okinawan farmer planted a goya that yielded a “Siamese Twin” [...]

After Obama’s whumpin’ of Clinton in North Carolina and stronger-than-expected finish in Indiana yesterday, superdelegates, such as Arizona Democratic Chairman Don Bivens, have reached what he calls a “decisional plateau” while Clinton’s campaign continues inexorably downhill. Nice, phrase Don — what the hell is it supposed to mean?! Just jump and declare for Obama and [...]