Sorry I’m Late
June 1, 2009
Some people are so damned talented that it makes my brain hurt.
Cake or Death?
May 28, 2009
Awesome Lego animation of Eddie Izzards classic comedy bit. There are a slew of these videos. Directly below CoD is ‘Death Star Canteen’, wherein Eddie wonders what everyday life was like on the Imperial base. You can follow Eddie Izzard on Twitter, and I *highly* recommend the DVD of Dress to Kill
which is my favorite Izzard routine.
Izzard quotes are commonplace in the McD household (alongside Simpsons and Scrubs of course).
Religion, now with nuts!
May 27, 2009
Check out this quote from Pat Robertson on the home of the internet crazies, NewsMax.
“I think that they [the Obama administration] just aren’t willing to confront what’s out there,” he said. “You talk about evil. (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, we’ve studied him, studied what he says. He is a fervent — and I mean this deliberately — he is a fervent believer in the 12th Imam that he calls the Mahdi.
“And he believers the Mahdi is living in a well just south of Qum in Iran, and he believes that the Mahdi is going to return to earth during his administration. And the Mahdi will only come after there is universal chaos and great destruction and then he will rebuild, according to their belief,” Robertson said.
“Now, you say this is nutty, but he is nutty. He’s crazy but he spoke about this at the United Nations. He speaks about it often, and he would not hesitate to incinerate Israel if he thought it would hasten the coming of the Mahdi.”
Now, let’s substitute ‘Mahdi’ with, oh, let’s say ‘Jesus’. And let’s substitute the implied thoughts of Ahmadinejad with Bush…
“and he believes that Jesus is going to return to earth during his administration. And Jesus will only come after there is universal chaos and great destruction and then he will rebuild, according to their belief,” Robertson said.”
“Now, you say this is nutty, but he is nutty. He’s crazy but he spoke about this at the United Nations. He speaks about it often, and he would not hesitate to incinerate Iraq if he thought it would hasten the coming of Jesus.”
Sound like Revelations to you, or just the last decade?
A Confederacy of Cakes
May 23, 2009
From a wedding we attended today in North Georgia. Yes, I said a wedding, and yes: it IS chocolate on the inside…but aren’t we all, really?
People are stupid, part 5001
May 20, 2009
In an article over on MSNBCs ‘Red Tape Chronicles’, there is a rather lengthy, detailed and quite clear explanation of how some states and government agencies post online information about misplaced funds that may be owed to citizens.
The article – on a news site, mind you – complete with details and links and you know, content is followed by user comments. At the time I’m writing this there are almost 200 of them, and of those easily 75% of them are posts by people putting their names and family information into the post, asking if they have money owed to them.
Granted, the headline of the story is the provocative ‘Does someone owe you money? Find out here.’, but seriously folks: do you really think that there is someone sitting at the MSNBC website waiting for people to ask and then answering them?
Part of me hopes this is some elaborate joke played by some merry band of ‘net smart-asses, but another, more cynical part of me knows it isn’t. People are just really this stupid.
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