Happy Thanks-giving!!

I've not written much of anything in a while, so if you're reading this, please take a minute to thank God for all the good things you experience! :)

Signs of the Times: Zombies

Some innovative hackers recently went to some great lengths to warn fellow Texans about a "grave" danger:




For the record, I decry any and all forms of vandalism. However, it's also hard not to appreciate a creative sense of humor.

Hat tip: John (the once and future Methodist).

Anti-Kudos of the Month: Punxsutawney Phil

For February, it goes to Punxsutawney Phil.


The little &*$#^&@$%$&^@ saw his shadow on Monday, and with a vengeance! The weather was looking better and better until then, at which point the temps plummeted. The wind chill was NEGATIVE eight degrees Farenheit when I went to class this morning!

"Coincidence"? How naive can people get??

The sad details and picture can be found here.

The TRUE Nefarious Powers Controlling Both U.S. Political Parties

For years, I've heard various people complain about how American politics is so corrupt and dismal, with both of the major political parties - despite some nuanced, window-dressing differences - being ultimately, fundamentally aligned against justice, decency, and the American people.

After all, depending on the ideological leanings of the complainer, the lament is how the top leadership of both the Democrats and the GOP show that when push comes to shove, they really operate as primarily beholden to the warmongers, socialist-big-government machine, corporate shills, elite-limousine-liberals, oligarchs, plutocrats, theocrats, abortocrats, gun-o-crats, pollutocrats, and/or Harvardcrats whose corrupt access to disproportionate power enables them to trap our entire society in inescapable subservience to the evil agendas and policies of this or that tiny cabal of puppetmasters.

However, all such complaints dramatically fail to see the bigger picture.

In a shocking new expose, the International Business Times reveals how now-President Obama, like Presidents Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, and Ford before him, is a card-carrying member of that elite 10% of Americans who are wrong-handed.

Think about it: only 10% of the population, but two-thirds of the Presidents in the last generation. What's that tell you?

The 2008 election was a sure sign that this increasingly powerful elite has grown to a scary extent in their power to impose their wrong control, policies, and hands on us good, decent, patriotic, hard-working, properly right-handed folk. Senator Obama's major opponent, Senator McCain, was also wrong-handed.

This is eerily reminiscent of that Simpsons episode when the two evil aliens take over the bodies of Clinton and Dole right before the 1996 election. Except that this is frighteningly real.

Even before that 2008 farce of an "election," it was clear that no matter who won, Obama or McCain, the Southpaw Syndicate would win.

And they won.

These may be very dark days for democracy...

Wishing Ye a Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Avast, ye scurvy scallywags! This today be the International Talk Like a Pirate Day. This varrrry 'portant hol'daybe a-spreading the seven seas so that even ye landlubbers arrrrrrrr now obliged to be marrrrrrking today by such means as only a-googling with Google Pirate and answering the phone properly, if ye don't want an earrrrrrly date wit Davy Jones' locker!

Quote of the Month

"If you see somebody wave to you, please wave back. If you see somebody flash you, please do NOT flash them back!"

-Instructions given on my double-decker bus tour of New York City last week