Main Stream Media
The problem with the media is not just that they suck, not just that they pander to the lowest common denominator, and not just they prize a pretty face above all other attributes.
The real problem is that they are proudly and aggressively stupid. Witness this exchange with Dennis Kucinich:
Now, Kucinich is not exactly my cup […]
Happy Birthday, Sputnik
You crazy, shiny, beeping ball, you. Fifty years young today.
It was supposed to herald the dawn of the new Space Age. But, it didn’t. That one is still a few generations down the road, if it’s ever coming at all. What it heralded was the Communications Age, when information became instantaneously available around the globe. […]
How Could I Have Missed This?
Apparently, MC Hawking has been around for several years and nobody told me? Find him here.
Plug for a Friend
Any of you who read Bob Harris’s Prisoner of Trebekistan will know what a warm, funny guy he is (and he really is just like that).
Bob has a new book coming out - Who Hates Whom. I don’t have an advance copy of this one, but it looks like it’s going to be more of […]
Damn! Creationists are Everywhere
And I was going to vote for this guy, too. Yet another politician gets caught trying to make everybody happy and winds up upsetting everybody.
Why, John Tory, why?
Actually, I know why. If you’re a complete ignoramus on the subject, then “teach the controversy” sounds quite sensible. Both sides of the story and all that.
Except, in […]
“Better Than The Original”
If something bad ever happens to me, remind me never to sue in a German court.
Now that I think of it, I can think of a few people who would be better off if you replaced their heads with a lump of plastic.
Bastards! Thieves!
Thieves and bastards! I definitely had that idea first. Entirely fictitious? You’re goddamned right it’s fictitious…errr…never mind.
Unmotivated
I’m wondering how I could be any less motivated in my work. I thought I was unmotivated when they sold the company. I was - in fact I was very unmotivated, but I had yet to plumb the depths of true unmotivation.
This past week, they handed out the layoff notices. I got eight months’ notice. […]
Don’t Boar Me
Anæsthesia is something that makes everybody nervous. For many of us, it’s not the fear of death that bothers us, although I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t present. No, it’s the fear of mockery that makes the thought of undergoing anæsthesia nearly unbearable.
But seriously, folks. In this case the dentist actually profits from his […]
It’s Good to be Home
Getting everything moved here was easier than I thought it would be, even though I had to upload old posts from two different platforms and two different sites.
I wondering if I should try to do a crossword, but I think I’ll save that for the main site. No comics either, but I think I’m the […]
