Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Life on Mars, Spanish TV version: not too shabby!

Monday, April 27, 2009

I have a ride, but nothing to wear.

I have got a gripe, but no influence.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Smee

People who want to institutionalize public health never cease to give conflicting messages, and thus demonstrate why the individuals themselves are the only ones qualified to make those important choices, not a confused bureaucracy...

The "wrong" type of grease in our food has become a controlled substance, and yet the people I've met that support this decision also think that they should be able to buy and smoke marijuana legally. Many of those same people also believe that it requires a law to keep people from smoking tabacco in the wrong places.

According to them, there should be a 'right to die,' such as doctor assisted suicide, and yet certain prisoners must be kept on "suicide watch."

We should never sentence a convicted murderer to death, just in case there's a chance that we kill an innocent person, or even if they are guilty, because of all the potential that person might have had to live a better life. And yet, a woman supposedly should be able to abort, (and kill any potential life,) of any fetus she wants, for any reason, without consulting the father, or the grandparents, just in case it might inconvenience her during the time it takes for the adoption.

Another mixed message over "what's best for society's health" comes now from girls who grew up being taught to hate their Barbies, because their moms were jealous of the "unhealthy image" or "unobtainable ideal" she portrays.
And yet, we are supposed to support a utopian socialized medicine scheme exactly BECAUSE it is an ideal, an unobtainable ideal, because then our intentions would be good. But, teaching abstinence is somehow too irrationally optimistic for them.

None of it adds up, and the biggest hypocrisy comes from those who are so quick to push the relativist's point of view in their attempt at "tolerance."
They'll say things like "there is no black or white, just shades of grey," in order to justify the idea that somehow traditional values of right or wrong no longer apply, and that you're a "demented redneck" if you try to stand up for what you believe in, or if you conserve worth in the American Dream or even just sitting around the dinner table with your kids, and talking to them about having standards.

They'll preach that everybody has to "break free" from the constraints of the 'out dated' morals and define for themselves their own personal morality.
But, not if you're too fat and rich for them, or too skinny and pretty, in this case.

"To each his own" only applies when they're getting theirs. And how dare you talk about it on the radio, without asking their permission.

Don't you know they won THE election?!!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Okay, so The Big Bang Theory is now my favorite sitcom. My wife helped me to realize I wasn't getting some of the uncomfortable situations.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Abusive Border Patrol Agents w/ Nun Chucks at NM Checkpoint

always carry a camera and always refuse warrantless searches, or your rights will be denied you as well. Make this the norm, and not the exception.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

it's weird, Sarkozy's criticism of my president and my prime minister still manages to get me to feel defensive and a little ticked off, Hmm

I'm trying to reconcile the way I feel about airlines charging the obese extra with the way I feel about ISP bandwidth charges.

Biased CNN reporter enraged at TEA Party protesters

Interviewer or heckler?

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Made a nice, big mug of chamomile this 'morning' when I got up. It's the least I can do. Happy 15th, America!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito, from Virgil's Aeneid; "do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it." Von Mises

Monday, April 13, 2009

The highlight of my Easter weekend turned out to be Doctor Who.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Mythbusters made me think of Buckaroo Banzai. I must see it again. John Lithgow has oft read me to sleep on Symphony Space's Selected Shorts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

What's keeping merchant marine from defending itself, ala Benjamin Button?

I just got the emails informing me that they are cancelling my .mac homepage and my groups. Couple that with all the twitter spam = AARGH!

32 songs in 8 minutes

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Is pronunciation genetic? So many Northern Europeans seem to speak English so fluidly, yet Spaniards seems to struggle. How to test for it?

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