Been back from Europe for a few days, catching up with all the shiz, ya know…suppose it’s time for me to painstakingly recreate my experiences blog entry by blog entry? This is for me, more than you, or for my kids, because I’ll be too old to tell these stories by the time they care [...]

Dissing Lennon:
The real problem with “Imagine” is its woolly politics. Ostensibly a protest song about religious hatred, nationalism, materialism, famine and war, it actually opts out from dealing with them. Just imagine they’re not there and we’ll all feel better, it suggests.

Magnapop Belgium/Netherlands dates are posted. We are playing 3 festivals in Belgium, which look pretty rad, tents outside in the country. I started playing drums for Magnapop a few weeks ago, which means my first show EVER with the band will apparently be at one of these things in front of a few thousands souls. [...]

Non-proliferation has officially become my latest political-scientific obsession. What could be a more important issue? Check out “Securing the Bomb” NTI’s latest report on what we’re doing about it, and what we NEED to be doing.
Four kilograms of plutonium – an amount smaller than a soda can – or about three times that amount of [...]

Suitcase Nukes, hopefully not coming soon to a theater near you.
Given that 21,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana are smuggled into the country each day, how hard would it be to smuggle a softball-sized lump of HEU on one of the 30,000 trucks, 6,500 rail cars or 50,000 cargo containers that arrive every day?
Oh. [...]