Bring down the house lights.  I want to talk about something near and dear to my heart. Today is the annual Great American Smokeout.  And don’t you love the picture they used for that linked article?  It’s like the woman with the cigarette stepped out of a film noir.  Yeah, that’ll really encourage more people [...]

Note:  I use an asterisk to show that there’s a corresponding footnote at the bottom of the post.  So make sure to scroll down for an extra-special treat!  Let’s try it out.* I can’t say enough good things about Harry Frankfurt’s postmodern treatise, On Bullshit, available in a limited edition from Princeton University Press.  The [...]

This past Tuesday marked the latest Supreme Court hearing on video game violence.  For those unaware, the guvnuh of California is spearheading a bill to restrict the sale of violent video games to minors.  Apparently, the existing ratings system, which shows a large “M” for mature across the cover of the game, isn’t good enough.  [...]

I’ve said before that I don’t really get political on this blog.  But the results from yesterday’s elections have me worried.  I might just be too smart to live happily in this country.  That doesn’t mean that I’m smart in the true sense of being smart.  It just means that I’m smarter than the vast [...]

I was on a walk with my better half on Saturday (trust me, she really is the better half) and we passed this sweet, cottage-style house. As we walked along, we saw they had painted a quote from the Bible (Psalms, to be exact) all along the length of the house’s side. I don’t remember [...]

Hmph.  This is some mildly interesting shit. So Dick “Head” Cheney is supporting Trey Grayson in the  Kentucky Senate race versus Rand Paul, son Ron Paul. I’m bias here because I believe Cheney is an evil troll who has intimate relations with his own feces.  You know, like it says in the Bible?  Therefore, if [...]

I’m sick of shows with vampires who are all morally conflicted. “I have to drink blood to survive, but I don’t want to hurt anybody. What ever will I do? Bah-wah!” Oh, stick a cross in it and vampire up, you pussy. You’re a vampire, it’s okay. You’re excused. Man, if I were a vampire [...]

I keep getting these ridiculous attempts from online sites to advertise on my blog via the comments section.  Someone tries to post a comment on my blog, and their fake user name links back to a website like “Sock Warehouse” or something as equally useless.  I don’t even need to check the URL.  I can [...]

That’s right, it’s my birthday.  And the thing about having a birthday on St. Paddy’s is that I have to do twice as much drinking.  That means that I don’t have a lot of time to spend on this post.  It’s going to be quick and to the point. More people need to shut the [...]