For you speculative fiction fans out there, here is a first-person account of The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012, written from the perspective of a military officer sentenced to death for speaking against the coup. In reality, the author is Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., USAF, and the peice was written in 1992 to voice concerns over the direction of the military. I wonder if he is just as concerned now, 11 years later.

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“Cathy: America’s Sweat-heart” – an analysis of comic-strip character Cathy’s excessive sweating, and am amateur medical diagnosis.

Cathy has been in the funny pages for over 25 years. I don’t know if she’ll ever fit into that stupid bikini, and I don’t really care. What I’m possessed by is just how much she sweats. Frankly, I’m worried about her.

Speaking of missing, Bill Watterson, creater of Calvin and Hobbs, is currently not being seen. That didn’t stop James Renner from trying.

Jorn Barger, editor of Robot Wisdom, is missing. Have you heard from him?

I’ve had several people email my phone today. Unfortunately, Cingular’s GPRS system (the method the phone uses to get online) is down today. As it was yesterday. So… I know I have emails waiting, but I don’t know what they are or who sent them. By the way, this has turned out to be a pretty neat trick. Here’s what I do: phone@ericwagoner.com is actually in intermediate email address. Any mail sent there gets forwarded to a second (secret) emaill account that I can access with the phone’s email software. Another copy gets forwarded to the phone’s SMS emaill address (provided by Cingular). So, I get “paged” with a short excerpt of the email, and can then download the full text at my lesure. Works great, assuming there’s an internet signal. Interestingly, a friend in California reports that T-Mobile’s GPRS system is out of service there, too.

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But for the hand of fate and a veering right instead of left, I very nearly became a statistic yesterday. Mistress Panther witnessed the aftermath.