The Smug Baldy Speaks

This is episode IV pof the Star Wars Retrospective at Gametrailers.com, and it covers some of the classic Star Wars flight-sim video games from the 90′s based on the X-Wing and Tie Fighter games. At the time, these games were the best Star Wars games around.

You’re surrounded by Ghost Whisperers, Allison DuBuois, and freaky kids seeing dead people, so it’s only (super)natural to ask yourself, “Hey, could I be psychic?” Take our little test and find out if you have a hidden psychic ability. Have any of these things ever happened to you?

OK – I am beginning to love GarageBand. I spent about an hour today putting together my first podcast episode. I apologize for how rough this is, but I figured that, since this blog is called the Smug Baldy Speaks, and I had always planned to put some podcasting together, I should actually get started. [...]

 

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Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan posted some observations about Hillary Clinton in which he claims that too many feminists are likely to vote for Hillary simply because of her gender, while overlooking her decidedly non-feminist record: And her career there shows what a trail blazer she could have been for feminism. A skilled, cautious, pragmatic and constituent-focused [...]

The Bush administration recently bent over and gave us all a peek at where they plan to dig up part of the $150 billion for the as yet unpaid-for emergency economic stimulus package: their ass. Actually, it’s more like they’re using the FCC to pull it out of ABC’s ass. With a charge of broadcasting [...]

They say that Truth is the first casualty in war. Not now. Not in this war. A week ago, a hacker group calling themselves Anonymous posted their Declaration of War against the “Church” of Scientology, shortly after they were able to bring down one of the church’s websites. Then afterwards, Anonymous posted a second vid [...]

The question is simple enough: As you watched the scores of U.S. Presidential debates, did you ever wonder why there has been no debate devoted to policy surrounding what may be the most important social issue of our time: Science and Technology? Well it turns out that plenty of folks wondered about this, and were [...]

With every presidential candidate shifting into total balls-out (or labia-out, as the case may be) pander-or-perish mode, I think it’s important to cut through the inane hype where possible, and get at their positions on issues that matter to me. One such issue is education. While the uneducated and undereducated aren’t necessarily stupid, they’re still [...]

Last year we took a look at the 2006 predictions of self-described psychic, Sylvia Browne. We had to wait until the 2007 in order to be able to make a fair judgment of her psychic predictions for 2006. Since it’s now 2008, let’s go back and track how well Sylvia Brown’s predictions for 2007 hold [...]

Last week on the season premier of Real Time with Bill Maher, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow raised the issue of a national Voter ID in response to a conversation about how it’s possible to steal votes using Diebold’s automated voting machines. By simply mentioning voter fraud , Tony successfully switched the topic [...]