Asleep at the Pump
February 4, 2012After a visit to the laundromat this morning, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old, problem-plagued Jeep, wincing (both the Jeep and I) at a pump price of $3.99 a gallon for…
Category Archives: Technology
BlackOut — SOPA’s Choice
January 18, 2012(Illustration found here). Today is a kind of watershed moment when the Internets respond to attempts to censor shit by banging down the back door, but a load of ‘Net peoples have chosen instead to…
Enigma Ball
December 23, 2011Mystery seems to part of the nowadays. In wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes and pestilence, understanding of the great scheme of things seems to be drowned in an unknown pool of mystery — unless…
Watchers/Listeners
December 2, 2011“Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant…
Venal Brains Cooking
November 30, 2011Most scientists identify as Democrats (55 percent), while 32 percent identify as independents and just 6 percent say they are Republicans. — Pew Research, July 2009 Reality conception doesn’t require the brains of a rocket…
Canker in the ‘Predator Pie’
October 8, 2011“It’s getting a lot of attention,†the source says. “But no one’s panicking. “Yet.†(Illustration found here). The quote above comes from a Danger Room blog post on a computer virus that’s infested the US…
‘Hot…’ — Not!
October 6, 2011Jobs has finally topped the news cycle with an overpowering media assault and now maybe more US peoples will have a chance at getting employed… Whoa, wait a sec! Not that kind of jobs, dumb…
Here We Go Again
September 2, 2011Just as tropical storm warnings were issued Friday for the Gulf of Mexico, there’s come reports the infamous BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is coming back to life. There’s reports oil is leaking from the…
Aftershock And An Exercise in Horror
August 25, 2011Early Wednesday, a sharp 4.5 aftershock hit about five miles from the epicenter of Tuesday’s earthquake, which rattled the whole US eastern seaboard and has put people on edge. Via Twitter this morning: visionAri_style 1:30am:…
Drone On
July 18, 2011In a horrid news cycle where events fill the airwaves no matter the content — i.e., currently Casey Anthony and the US debt ceiling debate/debacle — blanket everything else, including the ongoing wars all over…