Fly The Fiendly Skies
Posted on December 12, 2005 - Filed Under Crime, Pain, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
More dispatches from the reality based community. The Gulfstream V has been identified as having been used by the CIA for “extraordinary renditions” – abducting terror suspects and taking them to secret prisons around the world where they may be tortured. The recording of flights by spotters like Paul from places as far afield as [...]
Read More..>>New Favorite Blog
Posted on December 2, 2005 - Filed Under On The Road Again, Pain, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
Being the paragon of calm, people often assume I am either dead inside, or possibly a robot.1 The truth is, I am able to part with potentially distressing emotions thanks to the suffering of others: Good work muni way to be 20 minutes late then take a break for 10 minutes right in front of [...]
Read More..>>Shout Out to The Wino Punx
Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under Kids These Days, The Man Stickin It To Us | 1 Comment
Pun intended? “about 15 students have agreed to remove the straps, and “a handful” were suspended after refusing.”
Read More..>>“Five to Ten,” said Joey
Posted on November 18, 2005 - Filed Under The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
Judge says, “That’s exactly what you’ll get.” Speaking of $400 lemons, a week ago my random ipod playlist project stopped dead in its track at 755 songs, when my ipod stopped dead on the tracks of the F train heading home. So I’ve since learned that it’s not worth the bother of going into the [...]
Read More..>>You can’t break the law if you’re above it
Posted on November 11, 2005 - Filed Under Crime, Kids These Days, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
The state of Nebraska’s response to lawsuits in the wake of “nearly 30 children dying from abuse and neglect”? Claim you are immune from such litigation and do nothing to address the issues at hand. If you don’t want to register for the World-Herald article, text after the break, because BMK has and always will [...]
Read More..>>Look into my ear and speak into my elbow
Posted on November 11, 2005 - Filed Under Look Away! It's My Brain, Stickin' It To The Man, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
From boing boing – “Statistical evidence suggests the use of [aluminum] helmets may in fact enhance the government’s invasive abilities. We theorize that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.”
Read More..>>Rate may not apply
Posted on November 11, 2005 - Filed Under The Man Stickin It To Us | 1 Comment
Yesterday we finalized plans for Thanksgiving, which required me to rent a car. Most outlets in the City were already booked, but I found a semi-reasonable rate at Hertz, so I booked away. The confirmation e-mail came back with loads of fine print, including the following: QUEENS,BKLN,BRONX RESIDENTS-RATE MAY NOT APPLY-CALL 18006543131 So being from [...]
Read More..>>Sony’s Compact Discs & Their Secret Software
Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under Music, Robot Brains, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
For years, I’ve used the PC utilities at SysInternals.com. I’ve found them to be useful, dependable, lightweight and all the other things that make well-written software great. In a recent blog entry, Mark Russinovich chronicles his the anger & frustration that accomponied the discovery of poorly written, digingenuous & undocumented malware installed on his PC [...]
Read More..>>Hoosier Daddy? Hopefully Not the Holy Spirit
Posted on October 5, 2005 - Filed Under Crime, Politics, Religion, The Man Stickin It To Us, Vagaries of the Heart | Leave a Comment
Via boing boing, a proposed Indiana law would criminalize any who become pregnant by means other than sexual intercourse, preferably while all parties involved wear a Larry Bird jersey. As boing points out, this would lead to the tricky situation where the Mother of the Son of Man would be in flagrante, while legal scholars [...]
Read More..>>The Way It Is
Posted on September 30, 2005 - Filed Under The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
The following is taken from Paul Krugman. A pass is needed to read it in whole. So I’ve posted the whole text. Can’t figure out how to break the page (please help, Tito?) Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He sold all his stock in HCA, [...]
Read More..>>Fire Up Jane’s Addiction
Posted on September 9, 2005 - Filed Under The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
Because nothing’s shocking: The GOP budget also calls for $35 billion in trims in entitlement spending, mainly in Medicaid, which is the health insurance program for the poor, and farm programs. Republicans insisted they will press ahead, after a pause, arguing that tax cuts are needed to sustain economic growth after the hurricane and that [...]
Read More..>>I For One, Would Like To Play The Blame Game
Posted on September 9, 2005 - Filed Under Stickin' It To The Man, The Man Stickin It To Us | 1 Comment
Jon Carroll: It is my understanding that good managers often seek to discover who was responsible for what. (The function of bureaucracy is to disguise the origin and nature of a mistake, so CYA procedures are always fully in place.) You’d think that if the mistake at hand involved many dead bodies, it might be [...]
Read More..>>A Weatherman Can’t Tell You Which Way The Wind Blows
Posted on August 24, 2005 - Filed Under Politics, The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
It is nothing new to report that The Right has long been waging a war against science & rational thought. In fact, they will not even deny it. Of course, this is recently "news" because of "debate" over intelligent-design ("creationism in a cheap tuxedo") vs. natural selection which is merely another ridiculous ploy to pander [...]
Read More..>>Kings Lose Crowns, The Royals Stay Irrelevant
Posted on August 8, 2005 - Filed Under Sports, The Man Stickin It To Us | 3 Comments
It was with a heavy heart that, despite previous excitement, I must report you can not order size 8 KC Royals fitted caps via MLB.com. I guess I’ll have to continue making do with that paper sack. On the bright side, at least it only took them ~4 months to get back to me. We [...]
Read More..>>Nothing New But Bears Repeating
Posted on July 26, 2005 - Filed Under The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
Jon Carroll in SFGate: The president demands loyalty, and the president gets loyalty. Classified information gets leaked, that’s part of the game, but it’s the approved classified information. The unapproved classified information – like the data that there was never any uranium in Niger, despite the president’s claims in the State of the Union message [...]
Read More..>>Don’t Suppose Hooters Had The Same Trouble
Posted on July 14, 2005 - Filed Under Language, Money, Perception, The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
Has anybody ever had a pleasant experience with the U.S. Patent Office? Apparently, you can’t trademark a phrase that others may find offensive — or possibly, that some prefer remain a slur — in this case, "Dykes on Bikes": "I cannot imagine a more ironic twist of thinking than to judge this reclaimed badge of [...]
Read More..>>Look Out Narnia
Posted on June 29, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
Mark Moford is warily awaiting Disney’s treatment of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (my first "favorite" book): More bad news: The first "Narnia" episode (I’m assuming Disney will adapt all seven books, if this one hits big) is directed by Andrew Adamson, a guy who has directed exactly two movies prior to tackling [...]
Read More..>>Though I Suspect Lewis Miner Would Have Taken It
Posted on June 23, 2005 - Filed Under Stickin' It To The Man, The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
"What hurts me is they were going to get me in front of my children, all dressed up, and hand me a candy bar, after all those promises I made to them," she told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "You just don’t do that to people."
Read More..>>Foie Gras Faus Paux/Automata For The People
Posted on June 23, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Food, Robot Brains, The Man Stickin It To Us | 1 Comment
Brooklynvegan – a site I visit regularly – has a post decrying foie gras*, in reaction to a post at Gothamist. The unintended consequence: Google’s context-sensitive advertising program has decided that the post would be an excellent place to advertise Foie Gras. A case of misguided advertising thanks to the irrefutable logic of the robot [...]
Read More..>>Can’t (Anti) Trust It
Posted on April 26, 2005 - Filed Under Music, The Man Stickin It To Us | Comments Off
Taking a page out of Fidel Castro’s playbook, "The Recording Industry" is washing crap-tastic CDs on our shores, fullfilling the technical requirements of an antitrust settlement. They are using this as an opportunity to unload some of their Not-So-Greatest Hits, including 73 copies of a "Christmas with Yolanda Adams for the San Francisco Public Library. [...]
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