The economy’s great and here drink this kool-aid
The other day the prez came on TV to reassure everyone that the economy’s great and that people should keep on spending themselves into a debt blackhole because it’s good for the economy. The first...
View ArticleYou Hear The One About The Banks Going Broke And The American Taxpayer...
Add Countrywide Bank to the Corporate-Greed-Induced Fuck-Up of the American Economy. Or As I like to Call It…Savings and Loan Crisis – Folie à deux Californians rush to pull money from Countrywide Bank...
View ArticleNight Night Bitch. Leona Helmsley “Checks Out”
On a postive note… ‘Queen of Mean’ Hotelier Leona "Only the little people pay taxes.”Helmsley Dies http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6863372,00.html Goodbye to one of the 80′s greed...
View ArticleFinally, a reason to post
I haven’t posted in a month because…well it’s a long story and might make a good post in itself someday. But the short answer is…I just don’t give a shit! But finally I’ve been inspired and found...
View ArticlePiss Test For Dollars
Today I received the following chain email… Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get...
View ArticleWhy Pregnant Women Don’t Tip Over
This is some amazing stuff. A fascinating work of science. If they would teach science this way in school (emphasizing fun, practical, and/or offbeat applications) then more kids would pay attention...
View ArticleMonkeys get the correct math answer 76%, college students 94%
This is awesome! In a rapid fire test of mental addition, monkeys performed almost as well as college students, showing they’re no slouches when it comes to number crunching. The macaques got their...
View ArticleGod Dammit, What Did I Just Say About Leaving The Animals Alone!
As if hunting and eating them was not enough, those wacky Japanese have decided to also humiliate whales by making them wear Santa Hats. Now this definitely IS anthrophomorphism. "While the white...
View ArticleAn Innocent Ban On Flatulence or An Attack On America? You Decide.
Oh my god, this shit is getting serious now. I read with horror as I see our freedoms literally being stripped away… Middle school issues ban on intentional flatulence According to this week’s Fire...
View ArticleLiving and Dying in the Material World
Let me preface this by saying Democrats have certainly not always made the best decisions in the past few decades either. I’m not a Democrat and I’m not a Republican. I base my comments on the evidence...
View Article98 percent of historians say Bush’s presidency has been a failure
Well no shit! President Bush often argues that history will vindicate him. So he can’t be pleased with an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted by the History News Network. It...
View ArticleIf ever you’re feeling like you have a hard life
Don’t complain about how hard your life is. Tree man ‘who grew roots’ hopes to marry after 4lb of warts removed Bookmark to: Hide Sites $$('div.d52').each( function(e) {...
View ArticleHealthcare – Has the tide finally shifted?
Since healthcare is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US, you’d think it would have been more of a forefront issue over the years —especially for those right-wing-types who seem to live by the rule...
View ArticleHOPE
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View ArticleDrilling In ANWR Still Doesn’t Make Any Freaking Sense
More scare tactics from the anti-facts/reality/science wing of the conservative movement. A while back I received an email with the subject line of "Lies Vs. Truth". It was one of those chain emails...
View ArticleSometimes Email Spam Can Be OK
I ran across this post the other day, entitled: The Best Forwarded Email I’ve received in a Long Time: Canada’s Tallest Building “I know you have a keen interest in architecture so I thought you might...
View ArticleNo More Religious People In Government – No More Delusional Leaders
The Religious Should Not And Cannot Be Trusted In Positions of Power. Religion is a mass delusion that has been perpetrated far too long out of fear, ignorance, and power. I understand that people have...
View ArticleGod’s Pharmacy – A Lesson In Simple-Minded Bullshit Thinking
As if to punctuate yesterday’s post about no more religious nuts in politics, I received further proof that religious nuts are not connected to reality. I got this chain email entitled "god’s...
View ArticleThe Mathematics of God – The Stupidity of “Intelligent Design”
One more installment in my recent anti-religion tirades… I recently finished the book "Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up" by Jonh Allen Paulos. It’s an...
View ArticleReflecting on my economic collapse post from last year
Damn, I wish I didn’t end up being right about this… On August 15 2007 I wrote this post about the impending economic collapse and how the prez was lying and saying that the economy was fine. Well,...
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