Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
This is what I get for being a comic book geek and a political junkie — an auto-select of news stories from Google that takes me to a review of the premier edition of Steampunk Palin. No, your eyes did… Continue Reading
Month: January 2011
Bad Attorney Advertisements, Part 3
For the third installment in my occasional series of bad attorney advertisements, I have found a television commercial. Embedding of the video here is disabled, so you’ll have to follow this link to see a truly tacky TV ad for… Continue Reading
The Determinist Explanation
Because of the autonomic responses of the chicken’s internal nervous system in response to visual, auditory, and other sensory stimuli, moving through a complex neural network to stimulate the chicken’s behavior. Likely, the neural programming within the chicken’s brain was… Continue Reading
The Primary Reason Why I Gave Up Assigning Essays
I would not be surprised to learn that Bar Jester Jason Peters is reverse-engineering an actual essay from his freshmen composition class. His note to the female students of his college is well-taken — this isn’t worth suicide for them… Continue Reading
Multi-Lingual Legislatures
So far as I had known, the only multi-lingual deliberative body was the United Nations’ General Assembly. But it turns out that the Senate in Spain is a forum in which legislators desire to speak not only the primary language… Continue Reading
Permanently Bald Othello
I suppose that Othello will always look like Lawrence Fishburne, at least for the foreseeable future. Not that Fishburne wasn’t a good Othello, or anything. But I wonder if in this day and age, an actor could play Othello, or… Continue Reading
Three Classes
This post is about what exists in reality and how I’ve seen it, not what I think that reality ought to be or my moral approval or disapproval of it. On balance, I’m not particularly happy with seeing the world… Continue Reading
Here It Is In Case You Were Waiting
The coolest scientific name for any creature anywhere. It is (drum roll): Vampyroteuthis infernalis: Vampyroteuthis infernalis is the scientific name for the vampire squid. This foot-long cephalopod takes its name from the red-and-black “cape” draped between its eight legs, thought… Continue Reading
What A Migraine Looks Like
Many of my friends have not had migraines. Some, despite many years of hearing people complain of them, disbelieve that such things even exist and probably secretly wonder if complaints of migraines are malingering. Even if they accept the good… Continue Reading
The Acne Of Middle Age
I’ve been coming home for lunches instead of eating at restaurants for about a week and a half. Part of it is that my usual lunch buddies are busy elsewhere, part is a desire to conserve financial resources. I didn’t… Continue Reading