This is an AWESOME rant I found on FB. It's just fantastic. It should be read aloud at every teatard meeting or posted to any Ron Paul group (yes, the Ron Paul supporters are just as crazy and just as ignorant about real world economics and taxation as any teabagger ( Read more... )

First thing they absolutely *HAVE* to do, on purchasing/adopting/rescuing a perfectly healthy male animal (of any species) is chop the poor guy's balls off.

I mean, seriously, WTF?

Some days ago, I came downstairs into the kitchen & ranted a bit at Philo. I was, admittedly, incensed. I had 'Stumbled' on a YouTube video, and from there onto a few news articles, about people harassed, arrested, charged, prosecuted, and even convicted, under various statutes and laws in different US states for the 'crime' of having videotaped ( Read more... )

I give you BartCop's Republican Rant :)

Subject: Dear Republicans ( Read more... )

From the Washington Post:

Cheney may snub detainee probe

WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday condemned the Justice Department's decision last Monday to investigate suspected CIA prisoner abuses, indicating that he may not cooperate with the prosecutor assigned to the case.

Cheney, in a taped Fox News interview that aired ( Read more... )

Driving into work this morning, listening to Morning Edition on NPR (as is my usual wont) I heard something that always, always sets my teeth grinding. And then I heard it, yet again, on the way home, this time on All Things Considered. Hence this rant. Not that it will make a damned bit of difference to any of the radio journalists on NPR, or ( Read more... )

In case you haven't read it, some fucknut from AIG went all self-righteous about the outrage over his $1.2 million dollar bonus. Yes, that's right, his $1.2 million dollar bonus. Now, similar to one of my favourite bloggers, the Rude Pundit, I didn't have a problem with AIG paying out contractually-obligated compensation to their employees. ( Read more... )

So I belong to several mailing lists (in my position as Controller of a company), one of them being a regular newsletter from IRMI (the Institutional Risk Management Institute). I quote them verbatim (emphases mine):

Usually, major catastrophes are rooted in multiple, complex causes. Equally elusive are effective solutions to avert future disasters ( Read more... )

My 'rant and rave' post to craigslist ( Read more... )

So I'm eating a quick dinner this evening, & 1/2 watching the TV 'cause I'm bored, & hate trying to read while I eat. And a commercial comes on for the Miss America contest. Blah blah blah ... 'till the end of the ad, and they announce the date (sometime, wasn't really listening) and then, "live, on TLC ( Read more... )