Monthly Archives: November 2007

Post-punk

Someone’s conveniently packaged links to a lot of post punk videos, no doubt working on the assumption that those of us old enough to have liked this stuff when it first came out are starting to have trouble remembering things like friends’ birthdays, where the damn car keys are, and the names of post-punk bands…

Canada’s contribution to global warming?

Obviously these critics have never been to Canada- in the great white north beer fridges are used to warm up beer to the proper temperature, not keep it cool. If you left beer exposed in your garage in Canada, you would have beercicles, Ay.
And they wonder why people don’t take them seriously!
STORY

Blasphemer!!

Woman convicted to 15 days of jail time for allowing her class to name a teddy bear “Mohammed”.
Read all about it.
I was going to go on a rant of how nothing would happen is someone named a teddy bear “Jesus”, but then came to my senses- a teacher probably would be fired for naming a [...]

Open pack position (”Omega”) filled

Archenemy Sister has a new dog. Adelaide turned out to be about 90% dead of some sort of parasitic infection when the rescue folks dropped her off, but a week in a veterinary hospital (more or less on the rescue group’s tab) did the trick. The previous Omega is reportedly happy with her recent promotion [...]

The man who fell to Rochester

Funny! And apparently for sale.

Dude, like, no offense, but your attitude is like, doubleplusungood

So, TJIC reports on a bit of thoughtcrime committed in the presence of university stooge, and, in my opinion (see comments on TJIC’s post), shines his light on the wrong politically-correct cockroach (actually, to be fair, we don’t get to see any of [Redacted]’s writing - he may not be a cockroach at all).
The PDF [...]

Telepathic nurses?

So, this afternoon I spent some time sitting in a waiting room at Lahey Clinic, reading a book while waiting for my apppointment. It occurred to me that I started reading the book in the same waiting room, three weeks previous. I was a little chagrined that it was taking me so long to get [...]

A masterpiece in 150 words

From Alan Moore, of course - who else?
THIS WARN YOU
Docs after in oldspeak. Untruth, make-ups only. Make-ups make THOUGHTCRIME. Careful. Supervisor rank or not read. This warn you. THOUGHTCRIME in docs after. SEXCRIME in docs after. Careful. If self excited, report. If other excited, report. Everything report. Withhold accurate report is INFOCRIME. This warn you. [...]