Enough About The Bird …
Posted on November 29, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, funny, new orleans | Leave a Comment
What about the accompaniments, the side dishes, the wonderful little mounds that contain green beans, garlic mashed potatoes, herb stuffing, cranberries, and other mini-utopias that comprise 99% of my Thanksgiving meal? Heresy! The Thanksgiving deities may strike me tryptophan-comatose, but I just don’t enjoy turkey as much as the sides. Give me […]
Read More..>>Somewhere In Literary Heaven, Steinbeck Is Shaking His Head
Posted on November 23, 2004 - Filed Under books, culture-society-history | Leave a Comment
In a tasteless show of “cutting off nose to spite one’s face,” Salinas, California, is closing all of its libraries due to serious budget cutbacks. This hometown of author John Steinbeck decided to sacrifice the education and access to information of its people to keep afloat. Very progressive and forward-thinking, Salinas, nice show!
Hence […]
Human(imal) Nature
Posted on November 22, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history | Leave a Comment
Copyright extension, fist fights in sports arenas, dishonest people who run the world and/or receive accolades … all of this and more makes me wonder if this is not the immutable nature of humanity. Naaah, that’s too nihilistic for this bee, who reasons that her cheer and hope would be absent if heartless beasts […]
Read More..>>Evil Dead Remake?!
Posted on November 19, 2004 - Filed Under funny, movies/tv | Leave a Comment
Woe to he who redoes original Ash. Even if it is Bruce Campbell.
Read guac’s post and my response at blarf.com
Of DeLays and Debt Limits
Posted on November 19, 2004 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
The Anointed have changed the rules to let Tom DeLay keep his House leadership position despite his ethics violations, and we can’t do a damned thing about it. With morals like these, who needs vices?
Pretending that this has no influence whatsoever on the value of our dollar at home and abroad, Congress has raised […]
More WIPO Outrage
Posted on November 18, 2004 - Filed Under books, government, public domain | Leave a Comment
This morning, I received word that statements written by IP Justice, countering the broadcasting treaty proposed by WIPO, had been collected up and thrown in the trash of a nearby restroom. Believing this to be a hoax, I departed on another one of my fact-finding missions and came up with the following: Letter to […]
Read More..>>R.I.P. Tom Dibblee
Posted on November 18, 2004 - Filed Under geology | Leave a Comment
Tom Dibblee, Southern California’s local geology legend, died yesterday afternoon at his home in Santa Barbara.
Read More..>>WIPO and Woodie
Posted on November 18, 2004 - Filed Under books, government, music | Leave a Comment
World Intellectual Property Organization - whatever name you give yourselves, you’re nothing but power-sanctioned daylight robbers.
Read my post on the latest WIPO misdeeds and EFF’s legal fight for JibJab’s right to call this music their music at WhatchaRockin?com.
As a wise songstress once said, “If you could be told what you can see or […]
Recount New Hampshire
Posted on November 17, 2004 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
Read The Nation article on one computer geek’s quest for testing the statistically-improbable output of ballot scanning machines manufactured by Diebold. Kerry’s New Hampshire win was obvious, lending the state’s votes nicely to the study.
“What [Ida Briggs, Michigan computer geek, using statistics] found were striking anomalies … In general, [snip] the “Diebold precincts” showed […]
“Liberals Return To Sodomy, Welfare Fraud”
Posted on November 11, 2004 - Filed Under funny, government | 2 Comments
From The Onion, America’s Finest News Source:
BERKELEY, CA—No longer occupied by the 2004 election, liberals across the country have returned to the activities they enjoy most: anal sex and cheating the welfare system. “I’ve been so busy canvassing for the Democratic Party, I haven’t had a single moment for suckling at the government’s teat or […]
