Part of my morning routine is a perusal of certain news-aggregator sites. One of my favorites is Slashdot, because I'm still a nerd at heart ( Read more... )

I've talked about this before, I'm pretty sure, but it needs repeating. Doubly so after a rather abortive trip to a local sporting-goods store yesterday. I'll preface this by saying I'm going to focus on the distaff, since I am male ( Read more... )

I have a bit of unexpected, but welcome, down time this morning. So I get to blog a bit. Today's topic, of course, is the elections that are coming up in just 15 days. Now, I understand that my selection of topic may be offensive to some, and my statements may not coincide with the beliefs and ideas of others, so I'll be a nice guy and put the ( Read more... )

A recent ballot initiative in (of all places) North Dakota, which was styled "North Dakota Religious Freedom Amendment: Measure 3", was voted down by a reported 2:1 margin.

Here's the interesting bit of the initiative:
Government may not burden a person’s or religious organization’s religious liberty. The right to act or refuse to act in a manner ( Read more... )

Silly season is alive and well and taking over.

Yet another group of legislators has decided it knows better than Mother Nature, and is attempting to pass a law to make people ignore what happens every day. No, I'm not talking about North Carolina's bill that would literally outlaw rising tides. (Who would they arrest for a violation?) In this ( Read more... )

It came out a couple of days ago that Mississippi Governor Bobby Jindal has proposed the privatization of all primary and secondary schools in the state. I argued with one person already who thought it was a Very Good Idea™, claiming that anything of value should be paid for appropriately. When asked where the money for the vouchers would come from ( Read more... )

This will, invariably, piss off consumer-electronics salespeople the world over, along with lots of other salespeople. But it's still true ( Read more... )

I've tried to start to write this blog entry three times now. I'm just not sure where to begin. This is unusual for me; very rarely do events leave me at a loss for words. However, ( if you don't want to see me ranting, skip this entry )

Some of you may have heard of Bryan Stow, a paramedic from Santa Cruz who was critically injured in an assault at the LA Dodgers opening-day game. LAPD is looking for two men bystanders describe as the attackers, and possibly a woman who may have driven the car the men left the scene in ( Read more... )

Honestly. Am I the only one who finds it morbidly amusing that it's the (f)right wing that is screaming the loudest about the policies and procedures the Transportation Security Administration has implemented at American airports...and the Transportation Security Administration was created under George W. Bush ( Read more... )