Missives From the Reality-Based World
Silly, stupid myths. I am expected to think of them now, since I’m 39. Well, I say bullshit. Many of you might remember the series ThirtySomething. I don’t, since I never watched it. Gods, what an inane idea. Let’s focus on constructed midlife crises explored by people entirely imaginary, and pretend they’re valid explorations into the human condition of being […]
Okay, so, well, I’m nearish to Orlando, FL right now, kicking out a quick missive from a virus-encumbered library computer running (gag) Win98. Pity me. Life in the Land of Jeb is not that different from NW AZ; there are a lot of retired folks here skewing the demographic red. What’s odd about it is that there seems to […]
Apparently god, li’l rascal that he is, is starting up a He-Man Woman-Haters’ Club (actually it’s called GodMen), since there isn’t enough phallocentricity or misogyny in modern Christianity. It seems to be a cross* between PromiseKeepers and “youth ministries” — a way to get men into churches by allowing them to relive the Glory Days of fraternity parties […]
The backstory on the Tripoli Six is bizarre, to say the very least. Six medical practitioners — five nurses and one doctor — were accused in 1999 of deliberately infecting over 400 Lybian children with HIV. It’s bullshit, of course; leaving aside the possible political reasons that anyone might have for doing something this ghastly, there’s […]
Perusing a recent Swift on James Randi’s site, I came across a product that is genuinely worth mentioning. DVD Rewinder The DVD Rewinder is a great gift for the technical savvy, the couch potato, teens with too much time on their hands, and the gadget buff! This leads me to ask: When, o when, will some brilliant inventor create an MP3 […]
US Government Declares War on Christmas No, really. During the holiday travel season, WaPo reports that the Fed is plastering airports with posters of wanted/suspected terrorists in the hopes that you aren’t already scared shitless enough. Get those visions of dancing sugarplums out of your head and focus on the “Faces of Global Terrorism” posters. […]
A one-twofer this time; education in the US is basically in the bucket and no one — least of all a semiretarded, demieducated drunken frat boy from Texas — really knows what to do about it. Vignettishly, the Washington Post reports that grade-school kids are toting around math books comprised of 700+ pages, and are not absorbing […]
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