Willy Wonka it’s not

This is the musical version of how I feel about the government.

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There is no God… But the aliens are coming!

I’ve been on something of a hiatus from reading much news or surfing the internet for random daily tidbits of either hilarity or outrage for about a week since I’ve been bumming off somebody else’s data connection in a bit of a backwoods area with barely reliable service. So I’ve been blissfully unaware of any [...]

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Nope, not scary at all

I wish we would see more of this in the US. And I really don’t care that some people look at that and flip out. Because if they actually took the time to learn even a tiny bit about the object of their irrational fear, they’d know that there is no magazine in that rifle [...]

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Then there’s a lot of “bad luck” going around nowadays

This quote is right on. Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is [...]

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Don’t mess with Texas… No, really, just don’t

As I’ve never been particularly strong in statistics (it was never an area I had a whole lot of interest in) I really don’t have the time or patience to do something like this post about Texas job and unemployment numbers over at the blog Political Math (which is written by Matthias Shapiro, the same [...]

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What did you expect?

I guess I could say that what’s going on in the UK is a surprise – but I’d be lying. If anybody had asked me 10 years ago how I thought things would turn out in a society that punishes citizens who are trying to protect themselves or their property while not even giving a [...]

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Barefoot shoes

When I was a kid – and my family can attest to this – I spent what can only be described as an inordinate amount of time running around barefoot. From the backyard to the the street to the empty field next door, you could find me sans shoes. It was a sad day when [...]

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Grrrrrrrr!

I have apparently somehow deleted the file that had three of my post ideas in it. Figures. I don’t even know how it happened!

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The most disturbing thing you’ll see this week…

…and I’m not joking. The Crack Emcee over at The Macho Response* posted these videos about a year ago while he was still on Blogspot. I only just found them recently and I’m currently still trying to decide whether to be happy to find them or to be beyond disturbed that the process he was [...]

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