“If it is true — if Michael Schiavo denied the parents bedside access in Terry’s last moments– then he is a villain. And I will destroy him.”
-Bill O’Reilly, seconds ago
“You have crossed my path for the last time, Schiavo! Now you shall reap the whirlwind! Unleash the NoSpinBots!”
Talk radio at work is changing my position […]

pointed out to me earlier:
Pope John Paul II, who is such a player on history’s stage that (it turns out) he once had an attempt on his life outsourced by the KGB, has been under the weather lately. So far under the weather, in fact, that he has been “receiving nutrition nasally” through a feeding […]

This evening, a randomly assembled fellowship took it upon themselves to throw me an impromptu surprise party for my birthday. A good time was had by all; the photos will have to tell the tale. Sleepy time.
(By following the above link, you hereby agree to wait six years for the page and its contents to […]

-wreinhardt recently followed up our mystifyingly long-running conversation about the Silverhawks with a site that delves into a bit too much detail about 1985’s favorite masked crusaders, the agents of MASK. It’s a fun rocket-powered-helicycle ride down memory lane, but I am a tiny bit disappointed in the author, who describes the character of Sly […]

Did I just hear a new U2 song in which Bono rhymes “choice” with “tortoise”?
Is that what getting old does to you? I’d better write all my pop songs now.

You’re older than you’ve ever been,
and now you’re even older,
and now you’re older still.
TIME! is marching on
and time… is still marching on.
-They Might Be Giants, “Older”
Like a lot of the guys in my high school class, I am a fan of the two-man band They Might Be Giants. Unlike the guys in my high school […]

In case of emergency, pull plug.
Out of curiosity: is there anyone reading these words who does want to be kept alive artificially in the event of a persistent vegetative state? Just curious. Just encouraging a healthy exchange of ideas that rapidly degenerates into hateful shouting and name calling… until I pull the plug on the […]

PEEMP.

Two experiences you never have at a small startup company:
1) I am part of a team (in the sense that rioting prisoners are on a team) composed of people from different departments gathered together to make a decision. Voting is involved, so it’s a democracy, except that by the time everything is finished everyone has […]

Rascal the Cute Puppy Wuppy Says:

Please don’t go! I’m sorry about the scary picture of Michael Jackson! The awful man makes me afraid too! He makes me hide under the bed! But if you come back, you can look at me instead! I will yip and bark and jump up and down, and I will […]

Exiting the courtroom only to be confronted by burning, unforgiving sunlight, Count Jackula quickly transformed into a giant bat and flitted to the safety of the rafters.