Okay, now this can't just be me...

So please, tell me.

Does anybody else find it profoundly disturbing that we now have nationalized investment insurance while health insurance is still largely in the private sector?

Is it just really, really weird?

I don't want to think that I'm the only one.

I know they have to have a narrative and all...

Because of course the news needs a basic, easy-to-follow story arc, as it tracks events in the world, without adjusting. But why has no commentator pointed out the simple fact that this is the Democratic Party?

For Democrats, this is unity.

Uniter, Not a Divider

Unfortunately he's only succeeded at uniting much of the world in laughing through our tears. Metaphorically, of course.

And now... LOLBush. And not from some guy, but rather... the Guardian. Okay, some guy at the Guardian, but even so.



Laffinstok, yu iz doin it rite.

Oy.

Slide with confidence, young sir

Figures that this story would zip across my personal radar within a few hours of finishing my copyright exam. I now know exactly which Title 17 subsections I'd pull up to shield Google from the litigious monster that is... the creator of the electric slide.

Three remaining.

How should I feel about this?

Beware the Canadian nanotech spy coin!

My reaction is bifurcated. On one hand, I feel reassured that U.S. defense is just that vigilant (read: paranoid). On the other hand, I feel ashamed that U.S. currency is so far behind the rest of the world that something like color is strange... and confusing... to us. We don't understand this peculiar quarter -- might it be from another world?

Any article that so effortlessly includes numismatist gets props in my book.

Need synonyms for "wholly unnecessary"

Or possibly a new word, for when actions pass redundant and incorporate an insulting self-indulgence. Insulting to the rest of us, that is. Or for when those actions waste magnetic tape.

Clearly, the world does not need this remake.


(With a far better title, link found here.)

Two Observations

‘The Spirit of Strom Thurmond’ is the wrong plane to send on a diplomatic mission to majority non-white countries.

I envision the following dialogue:
Point: “But Strom Thurmond was a segregationist. He hated black people, not people from the Middle East.”
Counterpoint: “Wow, you guys suck at diplomacy something awful, don’t you?”

Al Gore should not run for president because he’s fat.

And he’s not even that fat. However, since the man won an Oscar, all I’ve heard is how fat he is. Global warming would be more on point, considering the win, but no. Al Gore’s fat, a fatty, cummerbund popping lardo, etc. Just the one thing, similar to when the one thing was that he exaggerates, and nobody could get away from that single descriptor. As long as media can fixate on only one thing about Gore, and as long as that thing isn’t the at least equally accurate technologically savvy, scientifically literate forward thinker who believes in cooperative solutions to large-scale problems, he’ll do more good outside of presidential politics.