As many of us remember from Ghostbusters, this is a question that it's very important to get the right answer to.

Now, luckily, you can. http://www.universaldivinity.com/be-a-god/Sure... Anyone can climb up on their little rock, beat their tiny chest, and scream "I'm a god, dammit!" but that's hardly the same as being recognized as a living god - ( Read more... )

Perhaps this is something I should join Mr. Fry in trying to keep down in myself...

Perhaps. At very least, the idea will take a great deal of getting used to. ;-)

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I can, at very least, say with full honesty that I do, indeed, enjoy language... Every chance I get. On the one hand, I don't see my OCD tendencies for "getting it right" as a ( Read more... )

In the "Everyone else is doing it, so I may as well have some fun too." department...

The first one of these with wide-spread exposure that I heard of was "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", author credits to Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, and released last year by Quirk. I first heard of it on NPR while driving, and laughed quite a while ( Read more... )

I'm growing so weary of the overly-predictable ignorant, short-sighted, bigoted hate-fest on this one...

First, it's not a mosque.

Second, it's not at ground zero.

Third, two and a half million loyal Americans are Muslim. They get to have churches, too.

Fourth, yes, there should be a mosque at ground zero. It would be fantastic ( Read more... )

The shit people just accept into their brains without any due diligence or fact checking amazes me. It's like eating handfuls of garbage and shit without looking at it, just because someone marked it "food". It's worse, really. At least your body will try to get rid of a lot that garbage on it's own. The garbage you let into your brain just stays ( Read more... )

We think of "sane" and "insane" as mutually exclusive, but mounting evidence brings me always closer to the uncomfortable conclusion that sanity seems, most often, dependent upon the circumstances and the subjects being considered. Very many people - the majority, it seems - are quite sane very much of the time, and completely irrational on select ( Read more... )

Incredibly Stupid Facebook Page of the Day: "Americans for Prosperity"

First, let's hear it for Good Practices in Propaganda. The name is a perfect example of a propaganda technique know as the "Glittering Generality".

"Whoah!" says Bob Voter, "These folks are for prosperity? Well, gosh darn it, that's sure a refreshing change! I'm tired of ( Read more... )

Beautiful inspiration today from DevilsVenus, who, it seems, never writes but she sings... I would not be the least bit surprised if she could write a grocery list in such a way as to inspire emotion and thought.

Today, she speaks of The inevitability of waiting being found lifeless or just barely existing... ...The trail of crimson resistance that will lead ( Read more... )

You know, that headline was supposed to be funny, but I'm already thinking it missed.

The CallAnyway. I need some writers. I know a lot of you can write... I've caught you at it. Question is whether you have the room in your life for another paid gig. This could take anywhere from an hour or two per week or month to five or six hours per day, ( Read more... )

Here's a chart about what all the cool kids are whining about this season: Facebook PrivacyThe chart is elegant and expressive. Not entirely exactly true, of course, but elegant and expressive. It's kinda, sorta true, though, because in small blue letters near the bottom, it does quietly specify "(default settings ( Read more... )