Dear Spammer, nice try

I have a theory that spammers are a subspecies of humanity. They haven’t quite developed the skills to recognize when their material is not wanted. Lately they’ve taken a new approach in trying to sneak their advertisements onto the comments section of my blog. The “new and improved” crap has taken on a pseudo friendly [...]

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Mubarak and the art of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic

Protests that began in Tunisia have sparked a wider show of discontent with the status quo in the Middle East. From Tunisia, the call to bring down the country’s dictator has spread. Egypt is experiencing the worst unrest since Mubarak took control after Anwar Sadat’s assassination in 1981. His murder paved the way for a [...]

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Please Sarah, please

A “spudnut” moment? Seriously? That’s the best you can come up with in response to Obama’s Sputnik moment speech? I think you need to brush up on what the reference means. It does not refer to the promotion of a Soviet style space program nor it’s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union (by [...]

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Today’s quiz

Every week I get comments like this: Very pensive piece of info. I not in a million years thot dat t’was this right bold after all. I had disgorge a good amount of my sooner looking because someone to illustrate dis subject-matter apparently and this: hold responsible you over the extent of a unreservedly intriguing [...]

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The fine print makes it all legal

Humanity worries me. Advertising the sale of an illegal substance on Craig’s List is idiotic enough. Putting fine print that implies if you lie to me and you are the law, then you lied so I can’t go to jail is stupendously stupid. You cannot put a get out of jail free clause into an [...]

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Holy Hanna – Multiple Saviours

I lurk in all the wrong places. I’m sure my friends are considering some type of intervention in the very near future. I was showing a friend the wacky world of the Creationist Museum and she commented that Creationists don’t believe in grammar either: Uncover the historical account of the humble Christs birth as you [...]

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