It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

--- Neil Gaiman

*the claimer

Marc Valles is the twenty-something curmudgeon behind all this ranting, bile, sarcasm and nonsense. He is me and I am he and I run this site. Me. Nobody else. I claim sole responsibility for whatever’s on it.

Nobody’s fault but mine.

Jason Schock set up all the coding and design for version 1.0 of this site, including the ever-loving Bush countdown clock. Thanks to him. Give him work. I’ve kept a lot of his basics and his comments, which work wonderfully.

My parents, friends and family have yet to kill me or turn me in, and for that, I thank them.

That’s it. You can go back now.