Missives From the Reality-Based World
I assume those of you who oppose “socialized medicine”, “Obamacare” and general single-payer or public health won’t be getting vaccinated. Since, after all, it’s gummint medicine you’d be getting as opposed to something created in the “Free Market” three years too late and at a cost-per-dose equal to a house payment. Good. The sooner you assholes drop […]
The lyric is not …in this ever-changing world in which we live in… It is …in this ever-changing world in which we’re livin’… Got it? Good. Now, after forty years, you can rest easy. Let the topic be closed until this planet is scorched into ash by our own sun. On this ever changing world on […]
I’ll stop whining. Like hell I will. 107 degrees — and stormy. Can you begin to imagine the kind of humidity that means?
Sure, it’s consistent — but I mean, come on. It’s weather like this that makes you feel a day lasts an entire month. What the forecast doesn’t show, of course, is the steady 20-mile-per-hour wind that blows in constantly from the west-southwest and feels about as comfortable as standing beside an open kiln for 16 hours at a time. […]
Fox’s obsession with mustard varieties in re Obama’s cheeseburger might have called your attention away from a few other things worthy of note. It’s not necrophilia if you’re dead, too. You know those interesting sculpture/exhibition displays of actual human bodies that have been preserved and put into fascinating poses? The latest round features some examples of the bodies […]
A while back Apple went DRM free with iTunes, a move heralded far and wide by sundry and all. On the plus side, losing encryption while improving audio playback is a clear value-added bonus for we longtime users. I can actually put the music I purchased onto non-iPod devices now, such as my smartphone. This has empleasened me. On the […]
in reply, borrowing from Song of Songs: More delightful is your love than wine. My lover belongs to me and I to him. I sought him, whom my heart loves. I sought him but I did not find him. I will rise then and go about the city. In the streets and crossings I will seek him whom my heart loves. I […]
What I wrote in 2004: They still ride in the lock of time, breathing with trillions of others across three wide dimensions and a fourth still unbroken in one direction, and they know they will die but will never die, for this is the feeling that has moved every man from the first human stirring of heart […]
Naturally I’m in love with her, and told her so on Valentine’s Day.* I mean, duh. She can quote from Holy Grail**, knows what a d20 is, likes Firefly and doesn’t live in her parents’ basement. You just can’t do better than that. ==== * Awwwwwwww. ** Those of you thinking, “She’s got huge tracts of…” You […]
I’m working on starting a stupid meme, derived partly from Harvey Birdman: Ending different thoughts with “…in my pants.”* A sort of combination of Bulwer-Lytton and adolescent humor, as in, “It was a dark and stormy night … in my pants.” The only real rule is that it’s got to be a recognizable literary reference. I mentioned this at […]
Ayup. I’ve known this guy for years. (Wait for him to sing. It’s worth it.) So there.
A while back I said this was probably the best photo I’d ever taken. I didn’t count on this. Or this. Sisters, brother. Beautiful kids, beautiful day. Oh my God, what a beautiful day.
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