And they wonder why more and more people write off the mainstream media and escape to the internet, where real coverage of what’s really important along with analysis and background information can be readily found…
Category: Random Rants
He’s been back messing with the Chosen People who decided that the way to win the hearts and minds of their Palestinian subjects was to build a Stasi-style wall straight thru places like Bethlehem. He’s done that before, of course (more here and here), and it’s just as excellent as always. The project is called…
“In October, a Kansas City man was charged with possessing a controlled substance after Clay County authorities determined he possessed a toad with the intent to use its venom to get high.” (from the AP, via Yahoo). This has to be one of the best quotes of 2007. Seriously, how ridiculous is it, when law…
This ran Monday as a letter to the editor of my local paper, The Valley News: To the editor, "Kids will eat healthy school food" declared an AP headline (November 27). Yes, unhealthy eating habits and the obesity epidemic can be remedied; as it turns out, our smart kids want to do the right thing…
“Tragic Plane Crash” — Okay, just give me one example, highly paid ace ABC News “journalists”, of a plane crash that’s not tragic? I mean, really, c’mon, now. After following Glenn Greenwald’s revelation of the sad but true saga of Joe Klein’s epic whopper and Time’s relentless lying-for-a-living and marvelling at the Washington Post’s recent…
Finally managed to make some use of a) my free downloads from fotolia.com, and b) some of the better pieces of quality mail that has ended up in my inbox and/or spam filter over the past years. Enjoy — and, if you must, then click here to, well, enlarge it (hi-res pdf for prin/sharing).
These are the kinds of dweebs that give environmentalists and the notion of a social conscience a bad reputation. Why on earth would you think that your giving up having kids would improve anything at all? It’s fine not to want kids, I can certainly respect that, but arguing that you don’t want kids them…
Canadian plot cunningly thwarted by homeland security. Yep, you can’t be too careful: even though it has a police escort and a pre-arranged border clearance, a savvy and well-trained homeland security guard just has to assume that an ambulance en route from Canada to the US with a patient in need of emergency angioplasty might…
