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Of Geeks and Things.
Little uproar over Miss USA calling herself a geek... from geeks, of course, who are offended that their unique and beautiful snowflake subculture is being trespassed against by pretty people, because it was those people who made their lives hell in high school and HOW DARE THEY ( Read more... ) -
In Which I Actually Agree With a PETA Press Release.
Each year, each of the 32 NFL teams votes to award one of its members something called the Ed Block Courage Award. This year, the Philadelphia Eagles chose to honor ( Read more... ) -
Shit You Didn't Know, Part 1
Eric Woolfson, co-founder and creative driver of the Alan Parsons Project, passed away Wednesday. This, however, is not the shit you didn't know, although maybe you didn't know it. Which would mean two shits you didn't know, but who's counting ( Read more... ) -
On the Dumbing of Society, Part Fifty-Seven.
I am getting really tired of journalists who can't write.
My current bugaboo? The use of constructions which, while being grammatically correct and indeed true, attempt to apply non-existent breadth to accomplishments. I'm using football examples because that's what set me off, but the concept applies to everything.
1) "Troy became just the ( Read more... ) -
Oh, Onion, How I Love Thee.
It really is tragic how often the Onion hits reality on the head... -
My Brain Is Seriously Wrong.
Okay, so Noah Bennett's cover in the first seasons of Heroes was as... a middle manager at a paper company, right?
Suddenly, it occurred to me: this world needs some sort of mash-up where the manager at Primatech Paper in Odessa, Texas, is not Noah Bennett, but...
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The Mendacity of Legislators, Part Two.
The health care debate rages on, and still I watch the news and want to throw up. We've got this brilliant plan to force everyone to have insurance which doesn't even stop to consider the question of who exactly it is that doesn't already have insurance ( Read more... ) -
The Mendacity of Legislators.
You've probably heard about the latest sin tax to be proposed: a tax on "sugary drinks". The idea here is, of course, to combat obesity and make our nation healthier, or at least make people pay to be fat ( Read more... ) -
What the Fuck Have You Done Lately?
I just finally got around to sitting down, getting comfortable, cranking up the home theatre audio, and watching Wanted.
Anyone who didn't like this movie is deranged, and all the bleating comic fanboys who said they didn't like it need to get a life and quit expecting their comic movies to be rote transcriptions of their precious comic books. ( Read more... )