The ability for a chief executive to simply author dicta which are to affect the lives of millions is not democracy; it is a form of totalitarian control. Recently a certain president of a Western hemisphere nation was heavily criticized outside his country; his most recent actions have been described as a radical lurch toward authoritarianism by a leader with […]
Archive for January, 2007
Pink Things that Boys Like
Pink things are fun to play with. This isn’t too difficult to understand; it’s really not much of a revelation either, I suppose. I really like playing with mine. My favorite thing to do, in fact, is whip out my pink thing and start playing with it whenever I have a few minutes. Not just at home — at […]
I Don’t Know How I can Do This
My sweet little grey cat, Sputnik,* is so very close to failing. He has been with me since 1989. He looked at me so soulfully from the cat kennels in Tucson at the Humane Society, and when I lifted him out he clung desperately to me. His claws hurt, and it did not matter. Of course. […]
Goofira?
Funny, stupid idea: Akira Kurosawa’s Gojira Starring … Toshiro Mifune. Mmmmmh… MmmmHHHhhh… Mhhh… “Look! He’s walking all over Tokyo!” “Yes … and he’s tormented by angst about his heritage!” Special cameos by rice harvesters and about 6,000 random banner-bearing horse-drawn miniature tanks. All in heavy rain. Hey … I’d go see it.
Cause:Effect
It took much less time than I thought it would. First this from WaPo on Wednesday: Here’s some good news for everyone who worries about germs: Zapping that soggy kitchen sponge in the microwave for a couple of minutes can pretty much sterilize it. And here’s WaPo from Friday: Kitchen sponge users, beware. Microwaving sponges can sterilize them […]
Sectarian Email Violence
Got one of those chain letters in my inbox this morning; you know the kind: Pictures below are from a beach in Maryland. Isn’t the artwork awesome? Be sure to open up your screen all the way. The man creates new ones each day, as the ocean washes away his work every day. This is Chuck Ritchey, […]
On Gustatory Reactions to Existential Angst
Sometime in the next four billion years or so, our sun will go nova, a prefatory flare-up to its slow guttering and eventual cooling to a dark, dead state. The nova itself — not the kind of catastrophic explosion you see out of much larger stars (Betelgeuse, for instance, is a prime candidate for this) — will probably […]
Naked Brothers Band: A Bizarre Post, and a Cautionary Tale
[The lack of fold on this is deliberate; it’s more or less front page news.] I never intended my initial comment on Nick’s show to garner the reaction it did, but I think what capped it all was this. == begin == Name: A B | E-mail: c@d.com 1I love your Band so mutch I HVE MY OWN BAND IT’S CALLED […]
Culls
Pfizer is cutting 10,000 jobs. “Pfizer is a great company with a great future,” Jeffrey B. Kindler, Pfizer’s chief executive, said in a statement. …unless you’re one of the 10,000 people they’re fucking. Presumably Zoloft™ will be part of the severance package.
When Tee Shirts are Outlawed…
Australia should probably try to get its excrement compiled. First it plays host to a batshit insane Muslim cleric who’s in favor of killing children; now Qantas appears to be in dire terror of a shirt. Qantas said the T-shirt had potential to offend other passengers. The T-shift features an image of President George W Bush, along with […]
Backward
Motorola is cutting 3500 jobs in an attempt to stem falling profits. Given that CEO Ed Zander made $6.5 million in 2005, couldn’t some of those jobs be saved by reducing his pay to just $650,000? I know there wouldn’t be a way to keep everyone on board — but that sure is a lot of money going […]
Dementia Praecox Universalis
It’s not that the disease of extreme batshit religio-thuggery is spreading; it’s just that the meme has found new hosts, and they aren’t being shamed into the silence they should rightfully hold in the presence of their betters — that is, most of the rest of us. For starters the goons at the Pentagon have decided […]
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