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[ 1 Comment ]Posted on January 9, 2009 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture
Friday, January 9th, 2009(T)housands (S)tanding (A)round (T)aking (S)cissors (A)way?
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It seems somehow fitting that the letters “TSA” stand for both Tourette Syndrome Association and Transportation Security Administration. I mean, haven’t we all felt like spontaneously erupting with a string of expletives while passing through TSA checkpoints from time to time? Yes, 2008 was an exciting year at the TSA, from the sticky-fingered screener who was nabbed stealing over 100 items from passengers (including a $47,900 camera from an HBO crew) to the $240,000 decision against the TSA and JetBlue over an Iraqi man’s T-shirt, the TSA has managed to create a reputation that ranks them as more hated than the IRS in an AP poll. That’s why it’s a good thing parents can buy a Playmobil Security Check Point
Happy Birthday Elvid Bowsley
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on January 8, 2009 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Wow, nothing like David Bowie turning sixty-two to put things in perspective for you. I mean, is it okay to like Fleet Foxes if you’re over say, thirty-five? Am I turning into the creepy old guy who’s kind of hip that I used to laugh at in the clubs? Am I just a few short [...]
Wow, nothing like David Bowie turning sixty-two to put things in perspective for you. I mean, is it okay to like Fleet Foxes
It’s Finger Ricking Good!
[ Comments Off ]Posted on January 6, 2009 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Kentuck Fly Chicken Anyone?
You may have already heard of Engrish or Chinglish, the humorous collision of English and Chinese in language and signage. Yesterday, the online news and information site Mirror.co.uk (never considered to be a benchmark of journalism in the first place) had a piece about a new mall opening in China that is comprised entirely of counterfeit brands like Pizza Huh and Bucksstar Coffee. Thing is, most of the images in the article were hobbled from other sites with no credit given. One of the best sites for perusing collections of these images (especially if you speak Spanish) is pincheschinos.blogspot.com, “La Biblioteca en Línea de la Piratería China” , where I ran across Wahaha Future Cola. They call the company “Wahaha” because that’s the sound their CEO’s make knowing that although it’s not “The Real Thing” now, it probably will be.
Monday Morning Time Killer
[ Comments Off ]Posted on January 5, 2009 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Monday, January 5th, 2009Don’t waste more time not wasting time, the year is already 1/73 over!
For some, this is not only the first work day of the week, it’s the first work day of the year. In our ongoing effort to prevent Monday from happening, let’s start with an annoyingly simple yet challenging short-term memory test, Beer Caps. Gave me a headache. Let me know if there’s some reward at the end. I spend most of my life trying to forget things, and here a game asks me to remember things. Moving on: in the tradition of Karoshi Suicide Salaryman (previously mentioned as a Christmas Eve Demotivator) Comedy Central’s Adult Swim brings you Five Minutes To Kill (Yourself). Hopefully you have more than five minutes, because it takes about that long to load, and another five to realize the arrow controls are a little counter-intuitive. And speaking of slow load times, some of you will appreciate the Dial Up Kid. Yes. That thing he’s doing is all he does. Double irony: if you’re on dial-up, you might not find it so funny after it finally loads. And here’s your positive thought for the day: The year is already 1/73 over!
Sure. But Does God Believe In Christopher Hitchens?
[ 2 Comments ]Posted on January 4, 2009 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Would You Trust This Man For Spiritual Guidance? You know that old rule about how you shouldn’t discuss religion, politics, or sex in polite company? Well thank God the Internet is hardly what you’d call polite company, or I wouldn’t have much to talk about. For awhile now, I’ve found myself a little irritated by [...]
 Would You Trust This Man For Spiritual Guidance? |
You know that old rule about how you shouldn’t discuss religion, politics, or sex in polite company? Well thank God the Internet is hardly what you’d call polite company, or I wouldn’t have much to talk about. For awhile now, I’ve found myself a little irritated by some of the more rabid atheists in the public eye (at least one of whom seemingly can’t be mentioned without mentioning his excessive drinking). I’ve always been aware that one of the reasons for my joy in goading atheists into a debate was that if they truly held that the foundations of their belief were logic, their side of the argument was doomed at the outset. Agnosticism is one of the predictable results of applying reason to the topic of God, but to attempt to proclaim the absolute non-existence of something is absurd. Much like saying humans have never been to the moon simply because you haven’t. This idea gets summed up nicely in the compelling book Cosmos and Psyche