My new favorite website...calling all slashdotters and farkers, now there's a place for discussion of political events...
Monday, January 26, 2004
Monday, January 19, 2004
Arguments To Make Americans Fear Prohibition
Required reading. Every word of it. Pay close attention and T-H-I-N-K
Monday, January 05, 2004
Physics911.org - Articles
An even MORE interesting conspiracy theory page...be informed ahead of time when your friends tell you "Hey, no plane hit the pentagon..." (???)
Friday, January 02, 2004
False Historical Fact (January 2004)
The great Depression was, in fact, a time of great prosperity!
Many people think that the period early in the 20th century known as the "Great Depression" had something to do with a decrease in prosperity for citizens of the United States...not so.
While, admittedly, there were some people who were slightly worse off (eating worms, etc), many people noted substantial financial windfalls, primarily in the midwestern United States, where dust barons made sizable sums exporting finely-powdered dirt in varying hues...typically via highly available and free (but messy) naturally occurring wind.
People today, because of the use of this wind shipping technique, and the misunderstanding of the times around it, routinely use the terms "this sucks" or "that blows" in a negative sense. They never realize that dust barons of the day, (if they heard the terms used that way) would have had quite a chuckle.
Monday, December 29, 2003
Forum: The fish that threatened national security
That TSA supervisor needs to be kicked squarely and firmly in the balls. Pardon my language, but why the f*&^ is a small fish not allowed on an airplane? What, precisely is the reasoning behind this particular steadfast rule? Grr...
Christopher Hitchens said:
(click here for some back-and-forth about this article.)
"Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn’t fully grasp (partly because I was far from my family in Washington, who had a very grueling day) until the day itself was nearly over. I am only slightly embarrassed to tell you that this was a feeling of exhilaration. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that."
To which I have to say "I doubt it." (here is why...note the article's date and content).
***note*** Credit for this tidbit goes to GMontag
Friday, December 26, 2003
Monday, December 22, 2003
NEWS.com.au | Rats to SARS, diners still lap it up (December 22, 2003)
I'm sorry...did they say something about turning rats into wine? No thanks, I'm driving.
False historical fact of the month (December, 2003)
Origin of "dildo" as a word:
The origin of this word, interestingly enough coincides with diffculties in obtaining canning materials in Texas in the early 1900's.
There was a great deal of public discussion about high tarrifs on the metals used to make the lids used in the canning of various vegetable products in the southern US. Clever canners found that they could use bits of rubber as as stoppers instead.
As a result, the same canners coined a new word for these stoppers (as well as some alternative uses for them): didlo is "od(d) lid" backwards...
Trouble at the airport
If you're a reporter from Austrailia, I guess you better be *reeeeeealy* polite at the airport. This goes under my "what the F***?" section.
Friday, December 19, 2003
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Japanese Liquor Store owners committing suicide in droves
Man...bad time to have a liquor store in Japan, I guess.
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
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