Holy smokes. A hiker in Utah lost for a month, with little or no supplies and suffering from mental disability, was finally found this week, alive.
Category Archive: Commentary
Jul 10 2012
Atheism for Dummies
There’s Evolution for Dummies and Windows for Dummies, so why shouldn’t there be an Atheism for Dummies? I can think of quite a few smart folks and, umm, more than a few dummies, that could use that book. Dale McGowan is the author of Parenting Beyond Belief and executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, he’s finishing …
Jul 08 2012
Ernest Borgnine aka Lucifer in Devil’s Rain, passes away
Ernest Borgnine has passed away. The iconic actor was best known — at least to me — for his role as Lucifer in Devil’s Rain, a movie so panned by critics it ended the film career of director Robert Fuest. Borgnine was 95 years-old.
Jul 07 2012
Nerdy Saturday: What can James T. Kirk & lava aliens say about healthcare?
Sometimes when I hear the old ‘both sides do it’ mantra so beloved by the Beltway press, I think back to my childhood and a campy episode of Star Trek. Come on! Maybe you remember this one, The Savage Curtain, where Kirk and Spock join forces with Surak and Abe Lincoln to fend off Genghis Kahn and …
Jul 03 2012
Andy & Barney kept me company on many a boring day and night
Andy Griffith has made his last curtain call. Playing the perfect, quiet country straight man to his brilliant side kick deputy, Andy and Barney kept me entertained on many otherwise boring days and nights, from college to middle-age. The duo provided fodder for backwater cable TV, the Comedy Channel, and even racy adult-esque music videos (WARNING) …
Jun 22 2012
Sandusky guilty on dozens of counts of abuse
Wheel that old abuser into jail for life. Sandusky’s been found guilty as hell and there’s really no one who seems to think he got railroaded:
Jun 22 2012
A midsummer night’s rant
I despise them. I loath them. I hate them. I’m talking of course about computers, specifically windows PCs. Computers were once a blast for me. Tons of fun to play with, I liked them. But that’s back when they were more of a curiosity than a daily necessity. That’s all changed; try applying for a job with …
Jun 21 2012
Who could have predicted?
I saw the movie Prometheus. It’s worth seeing, especially if you liked any of the Alien movies with Sigourney Weaver. Being a physics and math guy I saw holes you could drive a quasar thru, but this is sci-fi after all. There was a preview for another movie about Abe Lincoln though … I don’t …
Jun 19 2012
Long week
It’s only Tuesday and already it’s been a long, scary, painful week. I’ve been trying for the last two days to figure out why FMLA paperwork filled out by my doctor was denied by my employer, while fighting a severe flare up and being forced to work with AS. This is the third set of paperwork, the …
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Jul 15 2012
FDA reportedly spied on government scientists
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by Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew
The NYT has posted an article claliming the Federal Food and Drug Adminsitrtaion used high tech spyware to keep tabs on scientists’ comminuques with congress and other people while working at the agency:
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