On the heels of xannoside 's post, and my response to it, evidence of what I was talking about. With numbers and everything. Non-lethal weapons may decrease the numbers of deaths in violent confrontations, but they increase the numbers of incidents that use force, period. Suddenly, you've got a lot of people being harmed who might not otherwise have ( Read more... )

If you don't want to deal with all aspects of your job, quit.

I get it. You were enjoying your little fiefdom in the clerk's office not having to deal with TEH GAYZ, and New York State up and changed the laws on you. Sucks. But them's the breaks in civil service life. So, either get out of civil service life or adapt. While this isn't as bad as, say ( Read more... )

Apparently, the last Republican primary debate was sponsoered by Google. And Rick Santorum was in attendance. (That's the joke, folks.)

In other, well, not hilarious news, but hilarious reportage of news, this article by the Guardian regarding the arrests at the Occupy Wall Street protest:
"Hero Vincent, 28, an artist from the Bronx, said: "I think ( Read more... )

Oh my. Oh, oh, oh, this made me splutter at work. Um, it's probably not safe for anyone's work but mine, where, because I laughed out loud, I then got to show it around to my other coworkers. Who laughed, probably mostly at me for finding this so funny. But it was.

Ooh, look what's coming to Netflix! I was kindly given the X-Men cartoon on DVD at ( Read more... )

I should be studying for my test tomorrow what with all this free time at work. Instead, I read things. In less trigger-warning-ly dangerous news than my last post, there's been another study showing the ineffectiveness of calorie counts at restaurants. It was already suggested by a previous study that the posted calorie counts don't change adult ( Read more... )

It has been an exceedingly busy day at work, and I've got about twenty minutes of downtime to share a few things. You will not be surprised to learn they are mostly about movies.

1. Bucky Barnes has a promo still from Captain America. You may be forgiven if you don't spot him right away. (You are also forgiven if you have no idea who he is.) He's ( Read more... )

(This primer brought to you courtesy of this article at The New York Times. h/t moonlightalice)

Lesson 1: If you find yourself making the brutal murder of someone into a story about how you, the not-at-all-persecuted, let-alone-dead person are finding it really hard to be called mean names, congratulations, you're on the side of evil.

Example: “Naturally, I don’t ( Read more... )

Iron Man 2's central scientific premise--SPOILERS! That Tony Stark could build a particle accelerator in his basement and create new elements with it--not so far-fetched after all!

By "not" I mean "still pretty," and this has been a nothing-to-see-here post for you all. Hope you enjoyed it.

A worthy commentary on the idiots who want to--literally--whitewash the goddamned Civil War ( Read more... )

Having bought a netbook to handle most of the things the iPad wants to do for me, I'm a little annoyed at the iPad's second coming. I say "second coming" because the lackluster response to it at first seems to have been eradicated now that people are starting to get their hands on them. For every person who goes, "I like Flash, actually, and would ( Read more... )