Category
rants
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San Francisco, rants
Remember, It’s Not the Gas Station Owners Who are Bending You Over. Rather They are Joining You in Being Bent.
06.21.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsEveryone hates paying the ridiculously high price for a gallon of gasoline, even if it is less than they pay in other countries. I live in a city where the gas prices are among the highest in the state, in a state where the gas prices are among the highest in the country, in a [...]
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comics, rants
Monoculture in Motion
06.04.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThis is a little rant from Transmetropolitan, set to music and made to look all pretty with motion and the like. This little speech always intrigued me and inspired not one, but two separate papers during my undergrad career. This looks pretty cool, but it sounds like the narrator has a slight lisp that [...]
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Politics, academia, rants
Some thoughts on e-1337-ism
Bill Maher has an article up on Salon going over one of his “New Rules” in which he mentions that 150 graduates of Regent University have been hired by the Bush administration. For those of you who don’t know, Regent is the oh-so-prestigious law school run by funda-nut Pat Robertson. Maher goes on to attack [...]
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rants, television
Dana White v. Tito Ortiz
04.13.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsWhat a rip off. I got suckered in to watching this mess after The Ultimate Fighter lat night. At first I assumed it would be a half-hour long affair that explored a little of the backstory on their feud and culminate with their boxing match. A half hour had passed and they hadn’t gotten anywhere. [...]
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rants
The old bastard said it better…
Warren Ellis and I have similar opinions about the holiday, but as you might expect he said it with more bile and in a more interesting way.
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Ponderings, autobiography, rants
Sure and Begorrah
03.16.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsIt’s that time of year again, when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts Guinness and avoiding the pinching punishment of those who forget to wear green. It’s a magical time of year when we can all come together over a pint and look back at the man who made Ireland a serpent-free zone, your [...]
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