Many thanks to elessa for passing this along, from Roger Ebert's blog: I think I'm musing my mind.

There's a very disturbing trend in our nation, particularly tied into politics, policy, and presidential campaigns. It's not enough for a lot of people to simply disagree with a candidate's position or platform, the level of enmity expressed by a great many people in this nation seems to mandate the demonization of the perceived enemy.

( Observations, positions, and questions, hidden behind the courtesy-cut )

Any time I feel a little down or bummed about where I am or my perceived place in the world, I remind myself about a scene from THE MATRIX. Morpheus, Trinity and Neo enter a subway station inside The Matrix, and there's a homeless bum sleeping on a bench with a bottle tucked inside a plastic bag. The bum is soon taken over by Agent Smith who ( Read more... )

In Scott Brown's recent column on Nerds in America for WIRED, he offers the following:

In fact, the nerd contingent has become so large that even Barack frakkin' Obama is, as of this printing, rumored to be planning a trek to the ultimate nerd summit: Comic-Con in San Diego. If Obama's a nerd - or even pandering to nerds - then all bets are off. ( Read more... )

I'm fascinated by those "Who was the first guy (gal) to..." questions. The first person to think that plucking body hair was a good idea, since historians believe that led to shaving. The first person to nibble a bit of oregano leaf and decide it would be good to use as seasoning. That kind of thing amazes me ( Read more... )

In the grand, cosmic, scheme of things, it doesn't matter at all. It's just one more tour around one star among countless billions by an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet. It really only matters to we primitive ape-descendants, for whom it seems to be of great importance to keep track of such things. We're the only species that bothers ( Read more... )

If they used this word last Thanksgiving, I missed it. Or blocked it entirely. Evidently, it's the term used for those fabulous deals that are available in the wee hours of Black Friday. Those alluring bargains sung by price-slashing sirens that draw unsuspecting shoppers in droves, only to dash them upon the jagged rocks of drama that ensue when ( Read more... )

This may be a sign the news has finally found the bottom of the barrel and is posting the scrapings as headlines.

CNN's front page at the moment has the feature headline being one reader-response quote about how he thinks Barry Bonds was used. Read about it here.

Some random guy submits some conspiracy theory and that's the biggest headline of ( Read more... )

It's occurred to me that the endless deluge of spam into my mailbox is only happening because of the blindingly simple fact that it works. It works because some moron, some where, actually clicks through and buys stuff from spammers ( Read more... )

Public Service Announcement:

Stickers of faux bullet holes and Calvin pissing on anything are now -- officially -- passé.

Also, a free clue for the lady who had a sticker on the fuel door of her Mercury minivan of Calvin pissing on a Ford logo...

Ford owns Mercury.

That is all.