Category Archive for 'Absurdity'

It could always be worse

Friday, March 12th, 2010

OccasionallyVery infrequently, with help from my caffeine addiction and Intense Focus On Writing Awesome Code For Employers Who May Read This, empty Coke Zero cans will slowly accumulate in my vicinity. I couldn’t say how many. In the worst of times enough to not want to know how many.
This morning I stumbled across a 1995 [...]

AFA Leader Would Like to Fix Gays by Force of Law

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I support the American Family Association’s right to pay for the Tebow ad—Americans have no right to not see promotions of ideas they might disagree with—but the AFA’s new leader, Rev. Bryan Fischer, should be watched. He has an interesting idea to fix a country that’s so broken that gays can…continue to exist: Fischer suggests we [...]

Tercy and the Insufferable Incline

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Kathleen and I have been lucky enough to be able to carpool until now, leaving our neglected Tercel “Tercy” (see right) to the rats and other inhabitants. The Good: runs well, good mileage, heat works. Bad: cramped driver’s seat, smells kinda like feet, back doors don’t open from outside, battery leaks out in a few [...]

First Flourine Bomb Victim

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Kansas resident Mike Nolan was the victim of a vicious bombing according to news agency “Fox4kc”.

We’re still awaiting word from DHS about troop deployment to Overland Park.

ToDo: War on Terror Accounting

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

With all the talk of whether or not to increase troops in Afghanistan, and the ethics of killing from your armchair, I think a group needs to sit down and study the full costs and benefits of these wars. As provoking as tragedies like 9/11 are, if we assign value to “innocent” human lives equally [...]

Reasonable People May Not Show

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

(Obviously started in August)
In the age of Glenn Beck, the town hall meeting paradigm is just the anonymous web forum with no moderator. The people interested in genuine discussion won’t go near it, and “socialist!” is the new “yr gay”. To this extent the tea party folks have certainly been successful at churning out viral [...]

Smallest valid HTML documents

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

HTML4
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN”>
<title></title>
<p>
HTML5
<!DOCTYPE html>
Smallest “useful” HTML5 document
<!DOCTYPE html>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”site.css”>
<script src=”site.js”></script>
<title>Page Title</title>
<h1>Heading</h1>
<p>Content…</p>
Check em if you want. To avoid problems in IE you might want an opening body tag, but you don’t need a closing one!

Zero Tolerance Nets Another Slimebag

Friday, February 6th, 2009

What if we had zero tolerance for laws that have a lot of ugly side effects? Like busting an amazing teacher in front of her kids… for finding a couple Xanax pills… in a suspicion-less search of her car.
Herrick, 59, has taught at Roberts for 17 years. Parents describe her as “inspirational,” “talented” and “loving.”
She [...]

New Think of the Children argument

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Daniel Rodriguez said there’s no such thing as a healthy discussion about legalizing drugs because young people take their cues from adult conversation.
“There are things I believe should not be open for discussion, and this is one of them,” he said. [El Paso Newspaper Tree]
Thank goodness we now have more excuses to stifle discussion on [...]

Effective Drug Warrior Posturing 101

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

When a policy doesn’t work no matter how many dollars and officers you throw at it, how do you keep the lights on and the citizens engaged?
Well, histrionics, demonization, war propagandizing, and hysteria have worked wonders in the past. Let’s listen to the President of the Philippines give them a shot:
… she ordered an “all-out [...]