Loose Lips: "In wartime the Enemy is inflated to satanic proportions. He is everywhere, he is an evil genius, he has limitless goals, he seeks world conquest, he wants to extinguish our freedoms (and everyone else's). And of course he is quite capable of achieving all this. It must be flattering to have such preternatural powers ascribed to you."

Police mistake Nativity hay for marijuana: "Marijuana seized by police in Chicago last month turned out to be hay from a church Nativity scene."

Mega-Launcher 'Potato' Launcher: "While the total range with a full 20 oz. soda bottle is not overly impressive, (only about 300 - 400 yards @ 15 deg. of elevation) it is devistatingly powerful at closer ranges."

Your computer could be killing you: "Sitting at a computer for long periods of time could kill you, according to a new study reported in the February 2003 edition of the European Respiratory Journal."

Gold dredge vanishes in northern California: "A huge gold dredge sank under mysterious circumstances in the Yuba Goldfields early this week, owners reported."

Adventure Magazine Reporter Recounts Ten-Day Kidnapping by Colombian Death Squad: "While on assignment for National Geographic Adventure, contributing editor Robert Young Pelton, along with two traveling companions, Mark Wedeven and Megan Smaker, was kidnapped on January 14th by a right-wing paramilitary group in Panama's Darién Gap. The Bloque Elmer Cardenas, a splinter group of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, released Pelton and the two young backpackers last Thursday after holding the trio captive for ten days in the jungle borderland between Panama and Colombia. Pelton finally returned home to Redondo Beach, California, last night."

Power Lust, Lew Rockwell on Bush's State of the Union:

Where to begin to criticize? George Bush is the biggest spender since Lyndon Johnson, increasing federal spending at a rate twice that of Clinton, and yet he stands up and demands spending restraint, seeming to blame everyone but himself.

He talks about freedom and opportunity and then brags about his new bureaucracies, spending programs, mandates, comprehensive plans, regulations, and goals concerning all our lives, from how our kids are educated to the cars we drive to the way we care for those in need.

Hypocrisy? He denounces bureaucrats and praises innovation only to demand a huge new boondoggle program to put researchers on the dole. Indeed, the underlying assumption behind the entire speech was that America's commitment is identical to his own commitment, which is reflected in his plans for your money.

Bush said, "The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others I will defend the freedom and security of the American people." Are these not the words of a dictator?

He got the country's name wrong, but Bush was precisely right when he said: "Your enemy is not surrounding your country. Your enemy is ruling your country."

Text of Bush's State of the Union: "Every year, by law and by custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead."

Only eighteen minutes into the State of the Union, and I'm already drunk.

From 1937 - How to build an model of the original Wright Flyer: "OUR model is a faithful duplicate that can lay claim to a unique title. It is one model airplane that will stay in the air longer than did its prototype -for its time has beaten that of the original Wright Biplane!"