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 [...]
Happy Anniversary Old Friend
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Happy Anniversary to the Sinclair ZX81, my first computer. I still have fond memories of building it from the kit, connecting it to a black and white TV for a monitor, and recording programs on cassette tape for use later. The Sinclair ZX81 was a wonder in its time. The ZX81 was a home computer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Classic Rock Alert!
November 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
On this day in 1965, the Who released the single My Generation in the United Kingdom, and changed rock and roll forever. 45 years since the unleashing of the song famous for the line “Hope I die before I get old“…sadly, Keith Moon fulfilled that part by checking out at 32 and John Entwistle only [...]
Craigslist “Adult” Section Gone (Kind Of)
September 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image by Getty Images via @daylife From wired.com: The online classified website Craigslist has removed its controversial Adult Services portion of its website. Technology blog TechCrunch was the first to report the section had been blacked out with the word “Censored.” In August several state attorneys general called for the closing down of the Adults [...]