Thank You, Colin Powell

Just for the record, I've always respected this man. This just amplifies the amount of respect I have for him.

What I'm Reading

Charlie Huston
No Dominion: A Joe Pitt Novel

The second in the series about a vampire detective in NYC. It is SWEET.

Six Signs You're About to be Attacked by Zombies

CLICK HERE!!! HURRY!!!

As an added bonus, How Zombies Work. Excellent.

Doug - The Lost Weekend

I'm hoping to have one of these, too!



For those who don't remember (or are too young to appreciate the divinity of Doug), this episode is about a guy getting a new game system and then forgetting life for a few days. Sounds awesome, but lo! There is peril.

CleanFlicks - Movies You Can Trust

This might be misconstrued as an anti-religion post, but it's really just an amusing site I found (through reading about its premise in The Year of Living Biblically: one Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.

Clean Flicks is a site, much like Netflix, in which you sign up, put movies in an online queue and then have said movies shipped to you. Except, unlike Netflix, these movies have no swearing, sex, or sviolence.

Do they only offer Veggie Tales? No, in fact. What they do is cut out the bad parts so that you don't have to view them whatsoever. AJ Jacobs, in The Year of Living Biblically, talks about renting Kill Bill, thinking it wouldn't be but about five minutes long. He was disappointed to find it actually does break the hour mark. (Which I, too, find amazing. That movie obviously isn't as depraved as I remember.) :(

I have mixed feelings toward the service. Censorship is high on my list of 'To Don'ts', but I also understand that, someday, I might have a little one running around who doesn't want to see Asians eviscerated (which should be a band name). Or, similarly, a wife who doesn't want me to show a toddler Asians getting said treatment.

So, to that extent, I can understand Clean Flicks.

***I can give 'em one thing: they don't spell anything strictly phonetically (see: Netflix)

Dennis Quaid Wants Coffee!!!

Lewish Black Lashing Out - Big Surprise!

More on Those Good Ole Small-Town Values...

For those who can't watch the video, here are the highlights:
[Note: even though the syntax doesn't make sense in some of them, I tried to keep the quotes as similar as possible]

...I don't like he thinks we white people is trash...because we're not.

...When you got a [negra] running for president, you got to have a first-stringer. He's a second-stringer.

...The whole Muslim thing. Lot a people's forgot about 9/11.

...Obama and his wife, I'm concerned they may be anti-white.



Do these people not realize cameras can be hooked up to computers [and then the internet]?

To go a little bit farther, I would like to quote an article that was in the New York Times (Boo! Boo! Boo!) the other day. Or yesterday. Sorry.

Oh, New York Times, trying to maintain a modicum of professionalism with the content of this article. I actually feel sorry for the Rube who had to go to Alabama and get these quotes.

“I would think of him as I would of another of mixed race,” said Glenn Reynolds, 74, a retired textile worker in Martinsville, Va., and a former supervisor at a Goodyear plant. “God taught the children of Israel not to intermarry. You should be proud of what you are, and not intermarry.”

Now, honestly, these people are making the South look even worse than it already does. Not everyone in the South believes this 1950s Jim Crow-ish racist nonsense, but I can't really say that's not true, since we don't get another perspective. The 'trailer park after a tornado has come through' contingent of the Southern population is much more fun to interview than the one with brains.

“I’ve always been against the blacks,” said Mr. Rowell, who is in his 70s, recalling how he was arrested for throwing firecrackers in the black section of town. But now that he has three biracial grandchildren — “it was really rough on me” — he said he had “found out they were human beings, too.”

The Things You Own...

...end up owning you.

I Wanna Be the Guy

While cruising Games Rader, I stumbled across a video for a DIY game called I Wanna Be The Guy, which is a TOUGH-looking composite of elements from several games, including Super Mario World, Street Fighter II, and Mega Man.

Please watch this video, if for no other reason than to marvel at how difficult this game absolutely has to be. If you get your hands on it, then let me know what you think of it. I'm too much of a chicken to even try it.

Green Zangief is awesome.

John Cleese on Sarah Palin

To paraphrase, basically he says that she's a pretty parrot, without any inkling of what she's saying.

I'm Not the Only One

Now That's More Like It

The sorts of attacks leveled on Barack Obama over the last week pushed the wrong kinds of buttons in the American people. Political attacks are by nature nasty, but these are fucking ridiculous. All the GOP needed to do last week was hand out pitchforks and tree branches wrapped in gasoline-doused toilet paper and then point to Barack Obama's headquarters. Everyone there would be dead today. Oh, I betch ya [wink].



John McCain finally showed some reticence at this nonsense yesterday. When some backwoods granny called Senator Obama an Arab - kudos for being wrong on even that front, woman - even McCain had to step in and say "no. No, he's a decent man. A family man."

Is it too late? The fucking mouth-breathers at that rally booed him, and I'm not so sure that the attacks will stop. By painting Obama as a terrorist-dating Other, the McCain campaign has stirred up a very distinct and unsavory kind of vitriol in the minds of Americans.

Sure, most people know the difference between political theater and real fear. If John McCain thought Barack Obama really wanted to turn American into Islamastan (or some kind of other nonsense), then he probably wouldn't get on stage with the man.

But some people don't. And it's the ones who still call African-Americans 'colored' and 'boy' who don't realize the distinction between political positioning and real, honest racism.

So that's why I was absolutely delighted to see that, today, the McCain campaign is going to start its line of attacks on Barack Obama's position on abortion. And spending.

After a week of increasingly nasty rallies in which John McCain and Sarah Palin hammered Democratic rival Barack Obama over his "association" with a 1960s-era radical, the Republican candidates changed tactics Saturday during campaign swings through two presidential battleground states. Palin launched a new front in the culture wars here, attacking Obama on abortion, while in Iowa, McCain concentrated on a critique of Obama's spending proposals.

YAY! Now that's more like it.

Universal Day of the Jedi

I missed the whole lolcat thing until it was too late - wow, I can't believe the spell check underlined it. Anyway - but I'm determined to make sure I don't miss Universal Day of the Jedi's 'Why So Imperial?'. It probably won't be an online hit like those cute, furry idiots, but it's funny. Damn funny. And doubly funny if you're an Original Trilogy geek like me.

Here Are Those Small-Town Values I've Been Hearing So Much About

...and I really hope we got some of that in the White House.

Regarding The Negative Attacks...

What I Want My Library to Look LIke

This is internet mogul Jay Walker's library. You can read the source article about it over at Wired.Com

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Eleven Life Lessons of The Big Lebowski

If you're like me, and you go through life trying to make sense of things and just can't seem to do it, then maybe you need a little guidance.
Bible not work out for you? Think Krishna is not the way to go? Scientology making you feel very stupid?
Then how 'bout The Dude?
Screen Junkies has compiled a list of the essential life lessons in The Big Lebowski. If your life lacks direction, then give it a shot.

Here is a link to the eleven most essential life lessons taught by The Big Lebowski.

Oh, [sigh] Stupid People...

I'm An Astronaut!

African Cichlids in the Act of Evolution

Perhaps for the first time ever, scientists have discovered a species actively evolving due to negative environmental effects. African cichlids in Lake Victoria in the Mwanza Gulf area of Africa are diverging into two different varieties almost right before our eyes, and the overt cause is over-fishing and pollution of the lake itself.

I'm amazed that we're able to find these sorts of things and be able to recognize them so easily. Like, oh, yeah, well here, obviously this fish is transforming right before our eyes. It's really something. It may be a small occurrence to many of you out there, but think of the poor bastard who's spent his entire life studying the Pundamilia nyererei. This is his fucking Woodstock, man. He's been swimming around in Lake Victoria, checking out these nuclear fish, wondering if something's gonna happen. And then bam! here it is. Evolution on a small scale.

The Best Palin Headline Yet

I think that this writer unintentionally made the most unfortunate headline yet. Click on the link and think about it.

That is One Tasty Burger

LA Po-po are looking for a dude - a grown man - who beat up a sixteen year old girl at a McDonald's. I couldn't figure out a way to embed the video, so below is the link.

Click Here to See the Mayhem

Kid Impersonates Bill O'Reilly

I hold a special place in my heart for swearing youngsters and a special place in my colon for Bill O'Reilly. Mash 'em up, and what do you get? Swearing demagogues. Awesome! Now, since he's not as popular anymore, Bill O'Reilly doesn't cause vomit to rise to the back of my teeth, but he still sucks.



I found this video over at Reddit. Enjoy.