So Voyager 1 is the first man-made object to officially leave the solar system and travel into interstellar space. Anyone else bothered by the fact that we sent a thing into space that contains a map to its origin planet and an open invitation? “Hi, we’re a barely space-faring civilization that you could probably conquer…
Category: this monkey house.
say it! say “under god”!
Okay, friends and neighbors. Let’s talk a bit about the Pledge of Allegiance. There’s another court challenge regarding the Pledge in the state of Massachusetts right now. Some atheist parents are suing the state over the recital of the Pledge in public school every morning because it contains the words “under God”, which they consider…
demonstrably wrong, laughably ignorant, and deliberately deceptive.
(Note: This post is largely directed at my liberal and progressive friends. Yes, I have those, just like I have Libertarian and conservative friends. If your entire social circle shares one political viewpoint, you don’t live in the real world, you live in an echo chamber. Conservative friends: please refrain from “LIBRULS ARE TEH STOOPID!!!1!!ONE!!…
look for a perp with second-degree facial burns. he will smell delicious.
Dunkin’ Donuts worker stops robbery…by giving the robber a faceful of hot coffee. Objects are tools. The weapon is that thing between your ears.
god’s gift to women, that one.
One Joshua Becker, a student at USF in Tampa, apparently thinks it’s fun to sexually harass strange women over the Internets. Only the target of his dubious attention didn’t take his shit lying down (no pun intended) and posted screen shots of the entire exchange online. She also pledged to send the evidence to both…
how u spel deficet?
So the Chicago Public Day Care System’s wardens—who, on average, earn $76,000 a year—are striking because the 16% pay increase over four years offered by the city just won’t cut it. Meanwhile, the Chicago school system has a dropout rate that’s close to 50%. But if you question the right of public sector union workers…
cluckheim calls for aid.
The new patio, pieced together from leftover granite and marble countertop pieces. A little while ago I was out on the new patio area, putting together some planters and trinkets the wife had ordered for the new outdoor space. As I was screwing together the driftwood planter, I heard the characteristic “red alert” bawk-bawk-bawking of…
pointless savagery.
When you’re young and in your physical prime, and the guy you punch is not, hands can become a lethal weapon, and you can find yourself facing first-degree murder charges. Now imagine what would have happened if the old man had carried a handgun and shot his attacker in self-defense. How would the media have…
the downsides of green policies.
The German magazine Der Spiegel has a great article on the unintended consequences of Germany’s strict environmental regulations and their effects on everyday life. This plays into what I mentioned in an earlier blog post: that to a lot of policymakers and voters, negative results of a policy are almost entirely irrelevant as long as…
i will physically kill you. do you understand me?
“Rachel from Cardholder Services” did not heed my warning. Rachel is now on my Wood Chipper List. That’s a technical term that describes a list I’ve made of people who will be….gently corrected…once I have taken over. I used to be nice, or at least reasonably polite, with people who cold-call the house to beg for…