Political correctness
a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

2010, the end of a decade

2010 is the final year of the decade, not the first. The reason is that our calendar began at the year 1. that is, we went from 1 BC to 1 AD. There was no year zero. Is the twelfth egg the last egg of a dozen or the first egg of the next dozen? [...]

Life After People, Again

I’ve commented on the History Channel’s Life After People before but the series holds a strange fascination for me. It’s sort of comforting to know that once mankind is out of the picture, Nature will bring itself into balance again, correcting the damage we inflicted upon the Earth.

It has always bothered me that the show [...]

Parallel Parking

I watched a program on the History Channel last night where scientists were explaining the existence of parallel universes and other dimensinos. The got into quantum mechanics, string theory, and a bunch other science stuff that was way over my level of comprehension.

The gist of it was there are (theoretically) an infinite number of parallel [...]

Oh, how I love it

Song: If It Makes You Happy
Artist: Sheryl Crow
Album: Sheryl Crow
Released: 1996

Today’s Quote: “The Internet is so big, so powerful and so pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.” ~ Andrew Brown

I read this somewhere recently: “Few things in life are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of [...]

Will it dissolve?

Today’s Quote: “Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.” ~ Allan Goldfein
(That does not imply that George is an exceptionally rational man. I’m not sure he can afford to be absurd.)

Song: White Room
Artist: Cream
Album: Wheels Of Fire
Released: 1968

Is there any substance known to man that will dissolve in milk? I fixed [...]

Does Bigfoot poop in the woods?

Today’s Quote: “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Does Sasquatch poop in the woods? And does he live [...]

I fart in your general direction

The Drifters – This Magic Moment

Today’s Quote: “A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” — Groucho Marx

Silent But Deadly?
They had a Mythbusters marathon on the Discovery Channel last night. One interesting myth they did dealt with the lethality of flatulence (properly known as flatus). Adam Savage came [...]

The Healing Power of Ice Cream?

Foghat – Slow Ride

Quote of the day:
“It’s the law of inverse relevance: the less you intend to do about something, the more you have to keep talking about it.” — Sir Humphrey, ‘Yes Minister’ (Sounds a lot like the government at all levels.)

Bonus quote:
“Data from the used underwear were downloaded each day to a computer.” [...]

Penultimate Day

Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf

“Yeah, and if a frog had wings it wouldn’t bump its ass when it hopped.” — Cassandra (Tia Carrera), Wayne’s World.

This is it, the penultimate day of 2004. The year is rapidly drawing to a close as I sit here and try to figure out where the Hell the year went [...]