Yes, it’s April Fools’ Day. Yes, Schlock Mercenary has left Keenspot. And yes, my plan to take over the world required this move.

I hope you enjoyed the joke as much as I did — the joke being “I can’t tell if he’s serious or not.” To me it’s almost as funny as the time I killed Tagon and got piles of “u cant’ be s3rious!” email. It’s not quite as funny as the strip that airs tomorrow. (Just because I’m relieving the stress of the current gag doesn’t mean you’re stress-less-ly off the hook. 🙂

Please feel free to comment on how much you like the new site design. We’ll be tweaking all kinds of things over the next couple of days (and weeks, and months). There are LOTS of new features coming, some of which are designed to make me mo’ money faster, and some of which are designed to make y’all happy.

–Howard

Ignore this entry. I’m just posting some code so that technorati.com knows this is my blog.

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Move along… nothing to see here. Fnord.

I went to the gym today.

All I can say is “it’s about freakin’ time.”

Oh, and “who is that fat guy wearing my face?” Walking past all the mirrors at Gold’s was disconcerting… there’s this obese person staring back at me, and I’m CONVINCED he’s angry with me.

–Howard

Okay, it’s NOT truly scientific. But it IS interesting.

With the Republican-dominated congress, Republican President George Bush, and Republican Governor Jeb Bush all attempting to intervene “on the side of life” in Terri Schiavo’s tragic case, there are those who may mistakenly think that ALL Republicans think this way.

Don’t get me wrong. I voted (mostly) Republican, and I’m still glad I did. On this matter, however, I find myself at odds with the actions of our elected representatives.

I’m not the only one. The folks who really matter, supposedly, are the voters. And in Utah County, a “red” county if ever there was one, a recent poll in the paper shows nicely how those constituents feel: Link!

As of this writing, some 82% of readers said “No, congress should not be involved in the Schiavo case.” Granted, that’s only 708 votes, and there’s no way to restrict the poll to people who actually live in Utah County. Heck, if everybody who reads this LJ entry voted, we could skew the statistics by a margin of error large enough to drive a fleet of family minivans through. But it’s KINDA scientific, right?

The loss of the Presidential election has been described as an identity crisis for the Democratic party. I believe it’s likely that we’ll look back on Terri Schiavo’s case as a similar crisis for the Republicans. Cartoonists Cox & Forkum seem to feel the same way.

–Howard

(EDIT: Yes, I know, Utah county is a RED county, not a BLUE one, and originally I got it wrong. To quote Michael Jackson, “I don’t want to spend my life being a color.”)