So, as someone who recently kicked the caffeine habit entirely, I totally love this shot. That was how I felt about coffee not that long ago: revered it, craved it night and day, loved the smell, the flavor, the concept, the buzz — the whole deal. And now, I don’t. I quit cold turkey, and…
Category: Random Rants
Via Greenwald, we find Juan Cole highlighting the ludicrous double standards that continue to be applied to the US Government when it comes to lofty notions of freedom and human rights. We praise the people of Tunisia for rising up against a dictator (whom we and our French allies kept in power for decades), and…
Stumbled across this really well-written piece from the Chronicle of Higher Education on the creeping police state as it continues to play out under the guise of “Border Patrol” — even hundreds of miles from the actual border, in this case with Canada. Example after example highlights how the bloated, inept, and vastly overfunded Dept.…
Someone had too much fun with Illustrator and cooked up this awesome little graphic (click it to big it). It’s only really fun if you’re from around here and can fully appreciate the extravagant notion of a subway in our neck of the woods. But, hey, we have the free and wonderful Advanced Transit bus…
Come to Jesus, and keep it classy. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R – Rapture) gave an MLK day speech in his newly conquered state of Alabama, and declared: “There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit,” Bentley said. ”But if you have been adopted in God’s…
South Carolina state senator Daniel B. “Danny” Verdin boldly throws his hat in the ring early for the Asshole of the Year awards with his statement that other people’s kids are a poison, a malady that must be cured. We’ve heard that kind of verbiage from his neck of the woods before — back when…
From the department of “they write letters & stir up trouble”: Dear Dr. Kelley, With a new year dawning, I wanted to raise an issue that has been on my mind for some time. In fairness, though, I should probably start out by apologizing for the length of this note… In the early December…
For sheer satire and amusement, few things beat self-righteous Xtians being thick and morally tone-deaf. Take Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, aka Gay Bashers United Against Fun and Happiness. She’s upset that the gays have made the rainbow their symbol of inclusion and acceptance, because she strongly feels…
From a commenter over at The Daily What: “Fun with Facebook” just strikes me as counterintuitive. Tumbling down a hill with my stuffed tiger is fun. Facebook is more like the canker sore I can’t quit tonguing. That was a keeper. If only I twittered (twatted?) it would have been an epic tweet…
Read this story and tell me again why arrogant and aloof white people insist they’re the masters of the universe and the only people who really have a handle on the true values in life? I’ve had similar experiences in the Middle East that put to shame any notion that the people we routinely denigrate…
