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Recent Posts
- Ponder: Religious Science and Scientific Religion
- Ponder: Political Husbandry?
- Student’s Opinion on the New School Menus? WE’RE HUNGRY!
- Some of my favorite shots from Fandemonium 2012
- Major Events and the Fibrofoggy
- FM: Persistence with Doctors Pays Off
- Fan Photographer?
- Good Words from a Fellow Fibro Foggy
- Fibromyalgia: Learn What YOU Have.
- Fundamentalist Fans Can Fracture Fan Genres
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Ponder: Religious Science and Scientific Religion
Posted on January 23, 2013 | No CommentsThe only thing stupider than injecting religion into science is injecting science into religion. I came to this when I watched a documentary that reported that many scientists were rethinking... -
Ponder: Political Husbandry?
Posted on January 23, 2013 | No CommentsThey should rename political science to animal husbandry; after all, its the study of how the herd gets screwed. Think about it… -
Student’s Opinion on the New School Menus? WE’RE HUNGRY!
Posted on September 28, 2012 | No CommentsThis amused me greatly, apparently the standards pushed by the First Lady are falling flat, especially among athletes and those that only get one decent meal a day…aka…school lunches. So,... -
Fan Photographer?
Posted on July 9, 2012 | 26 CommentsIt was a late night, actually early morning of June 23rd, and I was charging batteries in preparation for a Fandemonium dance that I’d be shooting pix at after I’d... -
Fundamentalist Fans Can Fracture Fan Genres
Posted on January 23, 2012 | No CommentsThere’s something I’ve noticed over the years, fans of different genres like to look down on each other. Kevin Smith said words to the effect that a con is someplace... -
OPPOSE SOPA & PIPA!
Posted on January 17, 2012 | No CommentsSAVE THE INTERNET. This site is protesting bills currently being considered in the US House and Senate. Called SOPA and PIPA, these bills will create a partnership of government and... -
Third Verdict and Back to Death Row, 20 Years After Trial, Retrial and Acquittal
Posted on August 17, 2011 | No CommentsJustice is an interesting thing, I came across this case and had to boil down everything I read into this simple synopsis: US Army Master Sgt Timothy Hennis was convicted... -
Looking at Science and Religion, from Cleric who’s a fanatic in neither.
Posted on April 19, 2011 | No CommentsBrother Guy Consolmagno SJ was born in Detroit, Michigan. He earned undergraduate and masters degrees from MIT, and a Ph. D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona, was... -
Mike Rowe Shares Some Impressive Insights
Posted on January 7, 2011 | No CommentsSome may see Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs and see him trying to do other people’s jobs, sometimes with mixed results. Something you’ll need to do is revise your opinion... -
The Doggie/Heaven Church Feud… WTF???
Posted on September 13, 2010 | 3 CommentsApparently this is between 2 churches across the street from each other… I’m thinking the Padre came out on top in this one… -
WTF?? The Highs and Lows of Barbie?
Posted on September 12, 2010 | No CommentsThis is at half-size, yes boys and girls you can see it even larger. Please don’t squee until you’ve finished reading. By: eLearners.com -
Wanna watch a professional handicapper fall on his ass?
Posted on September 7, 2010 | 1 Comment -
Major Events and the Fibro-Foggy
Posted on September 7, 2010 | No CommentsIt goes without saying that Fibromyalgia puts some limitations on your life, there, I said it; but, with that said there are things that you can do to reduce your... -
What I’ve learned about me by reading through my sent emails.
Posted on September 7, 2010 | No CommentsI was looking through my sent emails the other day trying to find something I’d recommended to a friend so I could pass the same recommendation on to another one... -
20 Strangest Sex Laws
Posted on August 30, 2010 | No CommentsInteresting… I’m not sure how some of these laws wind up on the books and I think its in my favor that I don’t understand. People get really weird about... -
ACLU Report: Establishing a New Normal
Posted on July 30, 2010 | No CommentsThe ACLU has released a report detailing “National Security, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights Under the Obama Administration” and it isn’t a very promising look at the policies of the... -
Word Racist Being Removed From Dictionary
Posted on July 30, 2010 | No CommentsAccording to the Free Dictionary a racist is either a noun or adjective derivative of the word racism, which is defined as follows: The belief that race accounts for differences... -
Newsvine: A little review… a little survival guide…
Posted on July 29, 2010 | 3 CommentsI’m a fan of Newsvine and I have been for around 4 years now and probably will be for a while to come. It’s an interesting site built upon an... -
Independence Day is the Holiday, the 4th of July is the Day
Posted on July 1, 2010 | No CommentsTwo hundred and thirty-four years ago several delegates stepped up and affixed their name to a document that essentially made them traitors to the crown of England. They signed with... -
Been a While Since I Updated… Which is Nothing New.
Posted on April 28, 2010 | 2 CommentsWith apologies to Dickens, there are the best of times and the worst of times; but, there are also times like these which go beyond the suck scale. I really... -
Papa, Wayne H. Means
Posted on January 31, 2010 | 2 CommentsWayne H. Means passed away on January 26, 2010 at his home in Warrensburg, Missouri of natural causes. Wayne was born in Ricketts, Iowa, the son of Roy and Jean... -
Once again to Face Down the Demon Nicotine
Posted on January 26, 2010 | 1 CommentNormally I wouldn’t consider giving up smokes when I physically down this far, but what the hell, its as good of a time as any. Basically what I’ll do is... -
Accept only Real Limitations…
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsFor example… the decision to streak or not to streak shouldn’t be based on how you look naked, but on real limiting factors; like, do you have bad knees and... -
Boothby’s (Infamous) Laws
Posted on November 10, 2009 | 1 CommentI’m really not sure how you’d classify these, but a long time ago I started tossing out stuff and assigning it a random number as one of Boothby’s Laws. Eventually... -
From Tim’s WTF? Files… A Merkin? Really?
Posted on October 17, 2009 | No CommentsThere are a great many strange and unusual things that people do that leave me wondering WTF? If you don’t know what that stands for ask your kids, they’ll be... -
Jon Stewart on ACORN Scandal: The Audacity of Hos
Posted on September 16, 2009 | 1 CommentThis is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, Jon Stewart has his moments but his look at the ACORN scandal is perhaps one of the funniest works of... -
Check Myself? Check This!
Posted on September 1, 2009 | No CommentsI don’t work at WalMart and I never will work there, so that begs the question… why do they think I want to ring up and bag my own stuff? ... -
I get to Combine Journalism and Fantasy, Good Times!
Posted on August 6, 2009 | No CommentsAn Article I wrote for Newsvine, you can also read it here too. I’m not sure why, but people don’t really think about fantasy and science fiction when they hear... -
The Names Have Been Changed to Protect… Someone…
Posted on June 8, 2009 | No CommentsYou remember it, at the beginning of every episode of Dragnet, the stories you are about to hear are true… yadda yadda, so forth and so on. That’s the style... -
The Hail You Say…
Posted on June 5, 2009 | No CommentsI’m not crazy about rain, but intellectually I know we need rain or all of the green things outside turn brown and shrivel. Shrively brown isn’t very picturesque so the...