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According to Cracked.com, Livejournal is being abandoned for Facebook and soon will only be populated by polyamorous wiccans and starvation tipsters. That’s assuming the Russian owners of LJ continue to censor the Harry on Weasley slashers.
In recent weeks I’ve gotten more friend requests on my disused FB than activity on this site. My question? Is it time to abandon Frank the goat?
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Today, anyone with the ambition to go-it-alone can produce independently of the Hollywood hype machine. The technology has become that accessible; the distribution that low cost.
This is a great time for entertainment, a talent-rush akin to the early days of cinema. |
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Honduran President tries to subvert their constitution in order to procure an extra term for himself. He then fires the general who upheld the rule of law, and violates the expressed ruling of their supreme court. Censors opposing view points at the point of a gun. Unfortunately for the Honduran people, they have no constitutional remedy like impeachment to recall their elected incompetents. The justices issue an arrest warrant for Zelaya, and the elected officials kick his pajamaed ass out of the country. The crowd goes wild.
Honduras has historically been a dependable US ally until this country-wrecker, with the popularity numbers of Michael Vick, joined Chavez’s anti-America trade bloc. So I know why ‘I-Wish-I-Was-Fidel’ Chavez wants Zelaya back. But why would America? Because that would set a bad precedent and would not be legal. |
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And it’s supposed to be a comedy.
Jun. 23rd, 2009 @ 11:17 pm
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The white house issues strong warnings on environment.
Let’s see here...if nothing’s done, in thirty years, 20% of all species will be extinct...mass starvation in poor countries...thirst...no oil in the developing world. Yup, all there in the report.
Oops, that’s the last presidential environment report from 1980. We all remember how the world ended in 2000, don’t we?
So why would I believe Obama’s report saying by 2100 we’ll be up a balmy eleven degrees?
That’s the problem with the theory of global climate change. Maybe it’s true, but any theory that can’t make an accurate prediction is useless. Where’s the forecast that’s come true? That’s right, we can’t wait for dispositive evidence because then it’ll be conveniently too late. Have to act, now! That’s what used car salesmen say. And don’t talk to me about scientific consensus, the first Earth Day in 1975 was full of speakers proclaiming that everyone knew we were heading into an Ice Age. And food riots in Detroit by the eighties. Good thing we weren’t hasty then.
Just introduced, the Waxman-Markey bill to fix global warming will be expensive. Fifteen hundred a year, per person, and that’s just the starting figure. In this economy. And that’s what nobody wants to talk about: what’s it worth to you to fix the environment? How many millions of unemployed, how many billions in taxes? It’s not like slapping the right bumper sticker on your car will be enough. And what if the environment doesn’t need fixing—at all? That’s a hair shirt I don’t want to wear.
All I seem to hear in support of this action is a religious zealotry the likes of which would have made Oliver Cromwell nervous. I see the stocks for global warming unbelievers, and the rotten tomatoes, but where is the science? Prove that environmentalism will save the world, and I’ll happily peddle a bamboo car just like Gilligan did on his isle. Until then, keep your green evangelism to yourself.
Jun. 17th, 2009 @ 02:52 pm
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Shooting protesters, outlawing rallys, rigging elections...
Good thing Iran is a democracy, or I’d be worried.
Jun. 15th, 2009 @ 02:44 pm
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Being with a much younger woman can be good for you. You live longer.
“Scientists say the figures for men may be the result of natural selection – that only the healthiest, most successful older men are able to attract younger mates.”
More positive press for my wicked ways.
Jun. 6th, 2009 @ 08:47 am
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We are only as strong as those whom we choose to surround ourselves with.
Jun. 4th, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
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That knucklehead. Looks like Obama bought a car company with my credit card, again. Serves me right, leaving my wallet out on the counter. Out in the open. In America.
All I want to know is, where’s my free hovercar that runs on baby farts and nocturnal emissions?
Jun. 1st, 2009 @ 05:04 pm
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You’re going to hear a lot about Judge Sonia Sotomayor today— Pro and con. She was nominated for the Supreme Court by President Obama.
My attitude? It’s Obama’s pick and she’s qualified: to me that’s the end of the story.
However, what you won’t hear anywhere else is a refutation of the claim quoted by Obama that she saved baseball. In 1994, in a decision rendered in less time than a sitcom’s plot, Sotomayor threw out the baseball owners ability to change the work rules after the union contract had expired. Effectively forcing the owners to accept by judicial fiat a continuation of what they considered a detrimental covenant.
That rule change? A salary cap. She saved baseball by disallowing a convention that’s been instituted in every other major professional sport. I remember attending the funeral of the NFL. The wake that was the NHL. The eulogy over the NBA. Don’t you?
Saved baseball? Not hardly. She saved organized labor. And she didn’t have to waste a moment’s deliberation.
May. 26th, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
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Would-be suicide jumper pushed off bridge
Why? Because assailant was tired of selfish people drawing attention to themselves.
May. 23rd, 2009 @ 11:24 am
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I’ve been waiting for a new Star Trek movie for almost seven years. Time enough for my Spock ears to go all moldy. One opens this weekend. But will the multiplex get my Hamilton? I’m conflicted.
In the Star Trek universe there is no money, no poverty, no social discord. What an ideal. Who could be against that? And everyone we see is in uniform, color coded so you know their place at a glance, carrying out the directives of the over-arching intergalactic authority. One people, one mission, huzzah!
Yeah, about that. I assert that Star Trek is pure socialist fantasy. Liberals in space. Projecting ideas into the future that didn’t work in the past.
Consider it’s origins. Star Trek, in many ways, was ‘That Sixties Show’. Scratch at a Federation starship and you’ll find a peace sign underneath. The uniforms might as well have included tie-dyed bellbottoms. At the time of its writing communist chic was at it’s height. A world, nay, a galactic government solving all of humanity’s problems would have had appeal. And the kumbaya-themed episodes were just what the war-weary nation would have wanted.
Ever notice you seldom see civilians on Star Trek? When you do they are part of collectives (I mean colonies). Merchants are only shown doing wicked, wicked commerce by selling dangerous species (Tribbles) or as lying middlemen for mail-order brides. Interstellar pimps. Remember the trader race, the Ferengi? They were portrayed as cowards. A race of Shylocks. Starfleet don’t need no shop keepers! The ship may say it’s the Enterprise but it isn’t Free Enterprise. One has to wonder how those spaceships got built.
Yet I enjoyed Star Trek not for its philosophical underpinnings, but for what I wanted it to be: Horatio Hornblower in space. Leave the prime directive in the space port and lets put a few torpedoes in the French! Er, Klingons. One of my favorite moments in the Star Trek sagas was when Kirk righteously kicked his son-murdering enemy in the face and dropped his ass into magma.
Ever notice through the various incarnations of Trek there was always a good reason to ignore the eponymously named Prime Directive? Rule numero uno that said they’re not supposed to interfere with other races? Apparently Starfleet is just here to give out universal health care, cab rides for refugees, and then pull up a lawn chair to observe the genocidal cannibalism on planet, Oh Ei 8-1-2. Or how about this? Ship’s personnel constantly had to leave Star Fleet in order to right wrongs. “Yes, Mr Worf, I see you’re here for your biweekly resignation. Very good. You know the drill, leave your commission by the door and avenge whatever dead relative it is this time.” That’s because justice and Star Trek do not mix. Why collectivism is antithetical to individualism. Even in fiction, this can’t be ignored.
As the series rebirthed, it got more ideological. Day care on a war ship? Captain, can you turn this ship around? Alexander won’t eat his gak. A counselor on the bridge? Cap’t, the enemy feels really awful about disintegrating the ensign. Who voted Oprah President of the Federation, anyway? Firing a weapon took four forms and twenty signatures. And who knew that the galaxy would be populated entirely by enlightened sexual beings—ah, the free love movement persists in Sci Fi even if it’s long gone from Haight Ashbury.
So why will I still be there on opening night? Nostalgia, partly. And the characters. Spock with his struggle with logic over emotion, and Kirk with his love affair with his...ship. However, when I put my fanny in that stadium seating, what I’m really hoping to see are phasers firing and ships blowing the fuck up. Wrongs being righted, with plenty of debris. Here’s to hoping that the hippies check their commission by the door for two hours.
May. 6th, 2009 @ 07:35 am
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I crossed the twenty-miles-a-week running threshold. First time in months. A distance, in the past, I’ve been able to do in one go. Coming back from injuries is a character-wringing experience. A daily, catty comparision with what was and what is. Yet, I’m satisfied with getting back to this level. It’s the best therapy for this man’s head.
Been reading this article that postulates running shoes are a failed experiment... Cause the very injuries they’re supposed to prevent.
This is counterintuitive yet explains my past injuries. I can’t tell whether the author is on to something, or whether this is just voodoo reasoning.
May. 4th, 2009 @ 08:18 am
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Chrysler merges with dinky Italian carmaker, and American labor union will own over half the company.
I call FAIL.
Expect lawnmower engines, loud colors, and coffee breaks that last the entire afternoon.
May. 1st, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
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Remember (reading about) the million Americans who died in the great swine flu epidemic of 1976? Yeah, me neither. An interesting article about how politics and public hysteria affects government interventions. Not necessarily medical science.
Then, again, I’m sure there were gainsayers in 1918.
Poll #1391240
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllAre you worried about the swine flu?
Apr. 28th, 2009 @ 09:22 am
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In a world where the French are killing pirates and bring the rest to justice and a 500 foot US destroyer is nursemaiding a pirate-filled dinghy as they spew demands, we might as well give ourselves a national vasectomy — because it’s over, Uncle Sam.
If I ever end up captured by thugs, don’t you dare let me sweat it out while Washington checks the fucking rule book. Shoot through me to get the bastards. You have my permission. Swear it.
Edit testicles restored: pirates killed.
Apr. 11th, 2009 @ 02:29 pm
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An April Fools Funny
Check out the wireless extension cords, squeeze bottles full of bacon, and ice molds for the perfect untraceable murder weapon.
Apr. 1st, 2009 @ 11:24 am
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