A few years ago, Hyrum told me about this thing he’d read about called a “No-Lose Lottery.” Now, just by the name alone, I was suspicious, but he’d told me some crazy things before that turned out to be true, so I listened. It turned out he was talking about a financial product generally known [...]
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
With the announcement from Wizards of the Coast about the upcoming new iteration of Dungeons & Dragons, there’s been the expected buzz in the fan community debating the merits of the current and all of the past versions of the game. Actually, “debate” is a pretty tame word for what is more often referred to [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Thanks to John for pointing me to the latest bit of brilliance from Stephen Colbert … a piece that shows me how I, as a bleeding heart liberal, can STILL show my support of Sarah Palin and her folksy, MILFy, obstructionist, hypocritical, “teleprompters are unethical but crib notes are wholesome” army of lunacy. The Colbert [...]
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I spent a good deal of time last fall campaigning for the heartbreakingly futile “No on Prop 8″ initiative. Like everyone else who stood beside me on those chilly street corners last October, I was saddened by the decision that the California Supreme [...]
If the Penn Jillette video below is to be believed (and, being one of the creators of the show Bullsh*t!, I expect he does at least a modicum of research before going public in this fashion … but the only corroboration I could find was NOT from a standard and reliable news source), the Swedish [...]
I LIKE it when significant holy days from different religions fall on or about the same time. It is a reminder of how much we all have in COMMON. Despite the fact that peace and brotherhood that are central ideals in most modern religions, churches and practitioners seem to spend an inordinate amount of time [...]
Thanks to Ryan for sending this along. Edward James Olmos saying something that should be said in a GENERAL MEETING of the UN … and the White House … and the Vatican … and from offices of power and pulpits the world over. So say we all!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I set aside work at 6 this evening so that I could watch President Obama’s address to Congress … and then the Republican response. After 8 years of being morally outraged at the perspective and occasional outright lies in the State of the Union address, I was looking forward to hearing a president I enjoyed [...]
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Most people are probably aware that the President of the United States makes a weekly radio address. It gets quoted a lot for the news cycles on Saturday and Sunday, and generally serves to wrap up the White House’s actions from the week before, and set the goals for the week ahead. Well, with the [...]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Let me start out by saying, I voted for Barack Obama. I think he was the clear choice in the election, and I think he’s the first candidate (and now president) we’ve had in a very long while who has a HOPE of inspiring the country to make real and lasting change. His election was [...]