So this happened…classy. A police officer was assaulted on the job in Iowa City, Iowa. The cop stopped to talk to a man because he was disrupting traffic. They got into a struggle, with the man choking the officer before fleeing. A local news reporter posted a screenshot of the reward/wanted poster on Facebook. And [...]
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
May 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said That we would meet again Some sunny day Vera! Vera! What has become of you? Does anybody else in here feel the way I do? Bring the boys back home Bring the boys back home Bring the boys back home Don’t leave the children on [...]
Happy Birthday Townes Van Zandt
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best-known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including “If I Needed You,” “To Live is to Fly,” and “No Place to Fall” are considered standards of their genre. AllMusic has called him “one [...]
Olbermann On Giffords Shooting
January 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Gabrielle Giffords is a politician; her Navy captain husband is an astronaut. It was his occupation that was supposed to be dangerous. But Giffords, the moderate, three-term Democratic congresswoman who survived a bullet’s trajectory through her head, has already had brushes with danger on the job. Last March, after the House approved healthcare reform with [...]
And so the robot uprising begins…
December 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A belated Merry Christmas, with evidence of how the robots will lull us into a false sense of safety before rising to enslave humanity: The Flying Machine Arena offers a safe, controlled sandbox environment allowing the testing and validation of mobile robots. Thanks to its large size, it allows the testing of fast-paced motions, be [...]
A Thousand Psychic Wars
December 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars I’ve been living on the edge so long, where the winds of limbo roar And I’m young enough to look at, and far too old to see All the scars are on the inside I’m not sure that there’s anything left of me Don’t [...]
Genius
November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Warren Zevon‘s last appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, performing his “modestly titled” song “Genius” from the album My Ride’s Here. Enjoy every sandwich. I’ve got a bitter pot of je ne sais quoi Guess what-I’m stirring it with a monkey’s paw Since I saw you coming out of my barber’s shop In that [...]
Digital McCarthyism
November 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The United States Congress is currently considering a bill (the Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) that would severely undermine the independence and unity of the internet as we know it. In short, it would lead to two blacklists – one list of “banned” web sites approved by the US Government, and one list [...]
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha.
November 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha. You never listened to a word that I said You only seen me For the clothes that I wear Or did the interest go so much deeper It must have been The colour of my hair. Public Image. What you wanted was never made [...]
Super Harvest Moon Twilight Show
September 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia No nothing to do with that vampire crap or anything…just a cool phenomenon occurring tonight… From gizmodo: Prepare for the Super Harvest Moon! For the first time in two decades, the Sun will sink as the full Moon rises exactly opposite to it on the day the summer ends, creating in a [...]