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Mamas, Papas, peace, love, sex drugs, Rock and Roll, and incest
2009-09-23 13:16:00
Very ungroovy SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title : 'Mamas, Papas, peace, love, sex drugs, Rock and Roll , and incest', url : 'http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/m usic/2009/09/23/mamas-papas-peace-love-se x-drugs-rock-and-roll-and-incest'}, { button: true } ) ; Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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Why Honduras needs a nuclear weapons program
2009-09-22 01:54:00
It's clear that to get any respect from the Obama administration, a nation has to brutally suppress demonstrators, illegally pursue a nuclear weapons program (preferably both), or place nuclear weapons next to staunch allies (article headline should read: "Russia finally stands up to Poland"). All Honduras did was follow its constitution and, at the same time, resist a malevolent America-hater like Hugo Chavez and his stooges across America including, apparently, in the Obama White House. Now, through pressure from the U.S., Honduras has allowed the president who attempted to ram through an unconstitutional referendum back inside the country. Strangely, few, if any leftists cheered when this tiny nation attempted to resist American pressure. TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto ruler Roberto Micheletti said on Saturday the United States has revoked his visa to pressure him to step down and reinstate exiled President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a June military coup...
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De-teching my life
2009-09-21 15:42:00
Sometimes the amount of stuff people have dilutes the joy each individual item brings to them. I'm attracted to shiny, beeping things like Eliot Spitzer is to hookers, and bask in the glow of LCD light like George Hamilton does UV radiation, but I had so much tech that those square things with all of the buttons seemed like a bother rather than a help. It was especially annoying tripping over something you didn't use when a minute earlier you were writing checks to the credit card company (I have the Amazon card so that every once in a while I can buy something else I don't need). As much as cluttered life is suffocating, cleaning and consolidating is refreshing and invigorating. Mrs. Asymmetric and I have been selling much of our technology. I started by getting rid of the Onkyo stereo amplifier and Polk speakers that dominated our living room. If you have small kids, you know that listening to finely-reproduced music in the setting it's due is nearly impossible. The TV spea...
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Essay topic of the day: Inter-frater PP
2009-09-21 04:17:00
A Wolfeboro, N.H teacher asked this question: "If you knocked your brother down, would you urinate in his mouth..?" It really irks me when teachers oversimplify complicated moral problems. Without the context of the situation, it's virtually impossible to answer in either the affirmative or negative. Assuming, however, that the knocking-down was intentional and for good reason- say as recompense for an uninvited reception of bodily effluence- then the action would be just- an emanation for an emanation, to paraphrase an ancient legal code. Excepting tit-for-tat retaliation, urination should be used rarely, if at all. Not to say that it should be ruled out a priori- the threat of being peed-on has a deterrent effect. Neither, however, should one use such a messy option without first escalating gradually through less severe options like the "noogie," the "pantsing," and "wet willy." Urination is always wrong in casual horseplay. I think that the pee-ee is entitled to adequa...
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Thoughts on ACORN scandal
2009-09-20 00:28:00
Thoughts on ACORN: 1. A few employees doing wrong things doesn't mean that ACORN is a bad group. It's hard to have 100% conscientious employees. Maybe the guerrilla reporters just found four or five bad employees (in a row). 2. It wasn't corruption, however. The worker who accepted underage prostitution as a swath of the American mosaic didn't ask for anything in return or even seemed shocked by the whole thing. Perhaps the ACORN ethos of helping people help themselves (to your tax money) overwhelms other considerations. Or, maybe they're just used to dealing with these kind of people in the same way that West Virginia doctors are used to treating people for Opossum poisoning and San Francisco surgeons see gerbilectomies as routine procedures. 3. The problem with ACORN for me is that it's a federally funded group that exists to promote a left-wing agenda. It's like a left-wing faith-based organization. Come to think of it, community organizers are like lefty missionaries,...
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Brother can you spare a dime
2009-09-19 22:36:00
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/media/Brothe rCanyouSpareaDime-bingcrosby.mp3My favorite columnist, Mark Steyn, mentioned "Brother , Can You Spare a Dime" in his National Review column, which I've posted below. Steyn contrasts the lyrics of the song with the modern British attitude towards work. What the singer of "Brother" wants is the ability to work again, the "restoration of dignity," while the modern British dole-takers wish to avoid work. The song was written at a time when calling somebody 'non-productive" would produce shame within the target. Today, for many societies, producing is optional, if not a bad thing altogether. Why should people produce in the first place? Isn't production a source of pollution? People have always had a sense of societal obligations between ruler and ruled, classes, Church and state. These change over time. Brits may have, at one time, cared about the glory of the empire or spreading their beliefs around the world. The able-bodied were expecte...
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Notebook Odyssey, Dell coupon, and Latitude E6400 review
2009-09-18 22:33:00
Dell E6400 in black When my Lenovo T61's screen and motherboard went out two months after the warranty expired, I faced a number of laptop decisions. The first one was how much to spend. I could have gotten a cheap laptop that would have done 99% of the tasks I performed. Or, a high-quality, mid-priced computer. I consider the T61 I had such a computer. I could have had another T61 or the thicker R61 at the Lenovo outlet for under $600.00. Or, a very nice computer like the Dell Precision M6400 or Dell XPS. Concerning things tangible, I place my laptop right under my family and above my car and pets in importance so I wasn't going to get the cheapest computer. My financial situation prevented a luxury purchase. Mid-level it was. I entered with some non-negotiables: 1. 14" Matte (non-glare) screen. This is the right size for me. I don't understand the Rube Goldberg fascination with shininess. It's distracting in all but the perfect conditions, like watching a DVD in the d...
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Who's better: Beyonce or Taylor Swift?
2009-09-18 04:48:00
OK. Let's decide. I usually never watch contemporary music videos, but I have to admit that about half of Beyonce 's sixty million youtube views for "Single Ladies" are mine. Kanye is correct: the video's brilliant. Instead of special effects or a mini-movie, we have in "Single Ladies (Ring on the Finger)" music stripped down to its bare essence: the stark, black and white filming; bare stage; and long camera shots aim to eliminate distractions from the music and dancing, both of which are magnificent. The only flashiness occurs towards the end when Beyonce inexplicably waves a robotic hand. 0" height="339">Beyonce Single Ladiesby slylad No small part of the video's appeal is that Beyonce is also nearly in her bare essence. She and her co-performers are beautiful. They dance in a feminine style: sexy, but not raunchy. No tattoos. Best of all, no men. This video would make a highly accurate heterosexuality test. Next is Taylor Swift. She's very attractive as well. Wholesome ...
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Free market Education from Center for freedom and prosperity
2009-09-16 03:59:00
To think that some people pay for education. Hmmm, if I weren't working for the government, I'd be doing something important like...full-time blogging. More below. I have a policy of not posting things I see on the big con-blogs (like The Corner in this case), but the dude asked me to because he relies on viral marketing. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title : 'Free market Education from Center for freedom and prosperity', url : 'http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/a symmetric/2009/09/15/free-market-educatio n-from-center-for-freedom-and-prosperity' }, { button: true } ) ; Powered by b2evolution.
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Happy 100th birthday Huntington Park High School!
2009-09-13 06:02:00
The High School where I teach (and love doing so), Huntington Park , celebrated it's 100th year today. I couldn't make it because I had Army drill today, but I heard from one of my colleagues that the Centennial celebration was a great success, . SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title : 'Happy 100th birthday Huntington Park High School !', url : 'http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/E ducation/2009/09/12/happy-100th-birthday- huntington-park-high-school'}, { button: true } ) ; Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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How they made Stonehenge and my next projects
2009-09-12 22:30:00
It's inspiring when people spend their own time to help humanity understand its past. In fact, watching this guy move those huge stones motivated me to figure out some other mysteries. This weekend, my brother-in-law and I will go over to the quarry at Irwindale and recreate one of those Easter Island thingies- Maori, I think. During my vacation in December, I plan on renting leasing some cheap land, maybe an old Circuit City or something and burning one of those Nazca crop shapes into the ground. I'm also watching the extended Blu-Ray of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto to figure out how those wily Mayans knew about JFK's death. Hopefully I'll get to finishing it in a couple of years, around Chikchan 14th or thereabouts. Amazon.com Widgets SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title : 'How they made Stonehenge and my next projects', url : 'http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/c omiendo/2009/09/12/how-they-made-stonehen ge-and-my-next-proj...
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Not all pro-choice people are homicidal maniacs
2009-09-12 03:29:00
I'd like to be the first to say that I know many pro-choice people who are respectable members of the community. It would be completely unfair for I or any other pro-life person or group to use this horrible incident- where a pro-choice person decided to kill a gentleman he didn't know only because the gentleman wanted to protect unborn babies- to perpetuate a stereotype of the pro-choice as fanatics or homicidal preachers of hate in order to score cheap political points. You can be pro-choice and completely sane: it's just a different point-of-view that we should engage in good faith. Nor do I think that the pro-choice philosophy necessarily leads to violence and hatred. I'm sure Planned Parenthood, the Huffington Post, and other pro-choice organizations would have nothing to do with this man and are busy writing up condemnations as I type. (CNN) -- Authorities have charged an Owosso, Michigan, man with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder in the Friday shooting...
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Should Joe Wilson apologize to Obama- Greg Brady lies
2009-09-10 17:57:00
Should Joe Wilson apologize? Let's see: 1. Obama is essentially, though not technically lying. The health care plan isn't "designed" to cover illegal immigrants, but it probably will, as congress refuses to take steps to stop verification. There won't be anything called "death panels," but government will decide "best practices." Government will include abortion coverage as sure as I'm typing on my school's Lenovo R61. Thus, Obama invokes the Greg Brady "exact words" defense, wherein one can use syntactical analysis to overwhelm the author's intent or craft a phrase in such a way to mask one's meaning. Greg gets grounded It’s right for people to point this out. However, right in the middle of a speech might not be the best time. If the public allows the shouting down of controversial presidential statements, it may set an unpleasant precedent. On the other hand, Obama indirectly called Joe Wilson a liar, first. 2. Obama abuses his joint-session address privi...
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Review of Obama's school speech
2009-09-09 02:36:00
- When I'm not blogging, I'm a high school teacher. I decided to show Obama's speech in my class. Why, if I mostly disagree with the president? First, he's the president of the United States and deserves some attention. Second, it wasn't a federal mandate, in which case I would have resented the imposition. Third, Americans have precious few unifying events and non-political presidential speeches can be one of them. The speech itself was a triumph- Obama at his best. The theme was perfect, even conservative. It was a speech that could have been delivered by any president in our history, proof in itself of its non-partisan nature. The liberal stereotype is that kids can't learn because of some material deprivation. Obama said that no matter how much we spend on education, it's the kid who has to allow the knowledge to enter his brain. Learners are the final barrier to knowledge, so to speak. This is something I've been saying to my classes for years ("you have this...
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Asymmetric obtains advance copy of Obama speech to schoolchildren
2009-09-08 13:03:00
Obama address to nation Asymmetric has gotten a hold of Obama's speech to the nation's children. It's been significantly revised from the original (below): Children of America, I am your president. Ready? 3-2-1: Implement Operation Hope... Your teachers should be out of the class and those of your classmates not down for the program should be restrained. OK. Let's begin: Children, you will live in the future for a long time- longer than anybody else (which makes you more important than your parents, if you think about it). You want a tomorrow in which you won't have to worry about school, health care, mp3 downloads, food, intermittent internet access, unwanted births, skating rights, mommy-style jeans, pollution, dead animals, super-hot climates where you'll never be able to wear cute sweaters. Not only that, you desire a hopeful world that will give you stuff in exchange for a little hope and fairness on your part. It's your right. But some people don't want to gi...
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I performed three manly tasks in one week
2009-09-03 08:28:00
I did three manly things in one week, fulfilling my quota for 2009 (it's good to get things out of the way early). The first thing I did was train my sons in the martial arts. Antonio, 8, below: Yes, America: somebody will have your back in 2020. Next, my older son told his mother that a kid who who lives down the block threatened my son and insulted my wife in ways which I won't get into now, but that the kid probably learned from a rap video. My wife wanted to call the cops or go confront the mother herself. OK. First, I assessed the threat level. If the kid was by himself, "you should go up and tell him something, son." No, he was with some older boys. Too dangerous. Next, as I read in the National Review years ago that husbands are the representatives of the household, I told my wife that I'd handle it myself. I went and talked to the kid's parents and they saw it my way. Problem solved. Wife felt taken-care-of (womanly) and my son felt proud. Next day, the kid di...
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Penn and Teller anti-Catholics
2009-09-02 06:30:00
It's better to be loved than hated. This is only true if you're loved and hated for the correct reasons. Conversely, it's better to be hated than loved if one is hated unjustly and doesn't truly merit love. I take great pride in my Catholic faith when somebody, in order to attack it, has to lie. Such is the case with Penn and Teller's show on the Vatican. The funny thing is that there are some legitimate, if less dramatic, criticisms they could have made. Instead, they went for the conspiracy theorist, "all evil flows from..." angle. Bill Donohue has a response here. I plan on asking for a rebuke of lies (only) from CBS representative Nancy Tellem: nancy.tellem@tvc.cbs.com I don't have time to go over the show, but let me just rebut one: the Church has saved millions of lives in Africa because of her teachings on condoms and chastity. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title : 'Penn and Teller anti-Catholics ', url : 'http://www.nelsong...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue: Play chess online
2009-09-01 20:32:00
I enjoy the precise prose, Marx-free themes, and sense of decency of the pre-modern writers, even though things can get stuffy at times. Murders in the Rue Morgue, sometimes called the "first detective story," begins with a somewhat lengthy and difficult-to-follow discourse (below the fold) on which mental faculties are best tested by checkers in contrast to chess. Poe seems to think that the more constrictive rules of checkers better tests a man's analytic ability than the more varied move options in chess, although comprehending the exact reasoning would require me to think, and it's Saturday. Murder in the Rue Morgue is odd because the focus of the story isn't necessarily the mystery at hand, as the characters involved are barely present, but the inductive/deductive powers of C. Auguste Dupin. The reader can't possibly participate in the story: he's merely along for the ride. Or, the reader isn't given the information or time necessary to make a problem-solving guess and ...
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Fun Size: Clunker logic
2009-09-01 20:29:00
1. The Asymmetric clan was returning from our weekly outing at Best Buy when my son spotted a, mmm...I'm guessing 1990 Dodge Caravan with a ladder and a for-sale sign- $1500.00. I made a ladder joke. My son asked: "Papi, can't they trade it in for $4500.00 in the clunker thing? "You have to buy a new car to get the money. These guys probably can't afford it." Pause...Think...OK. Then my wife asked: "Y que hacen con los carros?" (what do they do with the cars?). "They destroy them." For you visual learners: [Am I being a regionalist when I say that Southerners seem to have much more fun with cars?] My wife then wondered why we didn't give the cars to Mexico or Iraq. I said: "Amor, Nelsito: You guys are just too naive to understand the steel-trap, progressive logic of Democrats. The benefits of their ideas may not be easily apparent to the proletariat, but rest assured, if they aren't in our best interests, they wouldn't do them." 2. Get a real lefty a little tipsy,...
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Yikerz! song by 5-Star Generalz (art warning [lyrics])
2009-08-25 16:03:00
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/media/yikerz .mp3I felt flattered when my friend commissioned me to write a song for his new game, Yikerz!** and immediately set about to conjure a work worthy of both Yikerz! and my grandest musical ambitions. I followed the usual pre-writing process: I played the game for two days strait days on an ancient California Redwood; meditated; locked myself up in a Native American sweat box, completely naked except for twelve Yikerz! pieces; took a magnetism course at the JC; learned the etymology of the word "Yikerz." I really immersed myself in everything Yikerz! to cultivate a suitable frame of mind. I then stocked my summer retreat with luncheon meats and Pepsi, sealed the door, and went to work. "The song must be bold, yet delicate; original, yet comforting, as if one were listening to his mother coo a lullaby; contemporary, yet for-the-ages." I eschewed the overdone cantata form and found Free-Form Jazz too restricting. I tried to add lyrics to the ...
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Yikerz! Game Review: Pure magnetic goodness
2009-08-25 10:21:00
Before I start my review, let me answer some questions that I'm sure are gnawing on your liver: Will the fact that my friend designed and markets the game influence my review? Yes, but negatively. You see, I find the Yikerz! inventor irritating. He's somewhat of an outcast in our gaming group. Whoever is DM (never him [shudder]) most often relegates him to the gruff looking for adventure at the keep and bends the rules so that his initial "test of prowess" is usually the last we have to deal with his seriously defective characters (Gnome thief-illusionist: I've never seen one of those before). God help us if he survives the initial encounter and we have to endure one of his "authentic" gaming brogues ("Not bl[oː]dy likely"). Although we pride ourselves on our rationality, gameplay with him deteriorates to such a state that we sometimes fear the otherworldly retribution of Gary Gygax (RIP). Wow, Aristotle was right- catharsis can generate a serious rush. Mean? Don't wor...
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Imagine Progress: Lockerbie and Crawford terrorists
2009-08-23 22:21:00
Comrade Chad here, spitting truth in your eye. Lot's of buzz from the hate-talkers (yeah! you, Nelson) about releasing the Libyan anti-imperialism activist, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (some of you pigs use only part of his name- that's wrong! Also, learn to pronounce it! I've been taking lessons from the dudes at the Free Palestine! movement here on campus). I've been following the case on D...N!!! and the circumstances under which the Scots convicted Mr. Al Megrahi are suspicious: for example, we know that Mr. Al Megrahi was declared guilty on January 31, 2001. That's a full 11 days after Baby Satan's putsch. That would have given KKKarl Rove plenty of time to activate the Republican hate machine and pressure the Scots into doing the empire's bidding. Even if Mr. Al Megrahi did assist in taking down the corporate-owned plane, doesn't evolution suggest that civilized people should show compassion to murderers? Haven't the most successful societies always had light...
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Review: Inglorious Bastards- nihilist genius
2009-08-23 11:48:00
Ingloroious Bastards* almost did something impossible: it almost made me root for Nazis. More on that later. I'm sure I disagree with him about everything and although I don't know first hand, he seems like quite an unpleasant fellow; however, Quentin Tarantino is a genius and Inglorious Bastards ranks up there with his other great accomplishment, Pulp Fiction. The story is every right-thinking, historically-minded person's fantasy: avoid a past disaster by killing one or a few of the individuals responsible for the event- in this case, Adolf Hitler and his gangster friends; and to mete justice on the evil- the same as above and everybody who follows them. The American government recruits Jewish-Americans to go behind Nazi lines and terrorize the Germans. They do this successfully. The "Inglorious Bastards'" terrorist credentials in good order, IB changes gears and turns sharply into a Dirty Dozen, mission-behind-enemy-lines storyline. There are actually two plots to destro...
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Conservatives: Don't call Dems Nazis
2009-08-23 10:25:00
It's easy to get riled up when somebody on your side dresses down a representative from the other, but conservatives should not call Democratically-elected officials, "Nazis ," even if the officials brought it up in the first place. To call somebody a "Nazi" is to impute that he's a mass-murdering pagan. Democrats do not advocate mass murder. Some Democrats are socialists, but socialism is block-headed and freedom-sapping, not evil. Let's keep our wits about us and show some respect to our Democratic neighbors. That aside, I liked when the gentleman thanked his congressman for letting him keep his own health care. Think about it. On a related note, Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism may be the most influential political book of the decade. The Marine in the video's knowledge of Nazi industrial policy is strait from the book. While at Barnes and Noble, buying a game of Yikerz, I happened upon a book by apparent idiot David Neiwart called: The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk ...
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Moral reasoning behind Lockerbie terrorist release
2009-08-21 07:04:00
Watch the video or read the statement below. What is Mr. MacAskill talking about? What are these "Scottish values?" Where do they come from? By his reasoning, every murderer should be released a few months before their anticipated death so that they can be with their family (why should anybody else receive less compassion than the murderer of over 200 people?). I notice no mention of God and Scots have begotten several famous philosophers so one would have expected a purely scientific, rational basis for the decision. I just can't figure out what it is. Actually, I do know. It's narcissistic, callous, emotionalism. Narcissism, because I'm sure MacAskill feels like a good person for releasing Al Megrahi. Emotional, because I don't see any other basis for his argument. Callous, because he doesn't care that the victims' families have to endure the spectacle of Al Megrahi being feted in Libya. It reminds me of a quote I saw on NRO, part of which said that leftist liberalism...
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Think Progress: Misinformed like a fox
2009-08-20 07:01:00
My friends alerted me to this post from Think Progress (to which I always ask, "towards what?"). Ignoring the fact that most liberals when talking amongst themselves really want all of the things people are "misinformed" about ("give benefits to illegal aliens, support abortion, and ration care? Never!"), ahem: 72% of self-identified FOX News viewers believe the health-care plan will give coverage to illegal immigrants a. If Obama doesn't intend to insure illegal aliens, why doesn't he subtract the 10-15 million illegal aliens from the phony 46,000,000 uninsured number he throws around. b. Does the bill specifically exclude illegal immigrants? 79% of them say it will lead to a government takeover, a. Part of that 79% includes the CBO who said that millions will lose their private health insurance under Obamacare, a prospect that people like Barney Frank and Barack Obama must consider a dealbreaker [sarcasm]. b. Obama has said he wants single-payer, as well. 69% t...

BSA: Obama the community organizer
2009-08-20 06:52:00
Conservative bloggers, talk radio and cable show hosts, and columnists must be jealous of Obama 's ability to convince people to be conservatives. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title : 'BSA: Obama the community organizer', url : 'http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/a symmetric/2009/08/19/bsa-obama-the-commun ity-organizer'}, { button: true } ) ; Powered by b2evolution.
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Dear Sci-fi Apologist: Was the Khan an alien?
2009-08-19 07:55:00
Dear Sc-fi apologist, On the Fox News website, Khan Noonien Singh is listed as one of the "top ten kick-ass aliens." Can that be correct? Sincerely, Out-foxed Dear Out-foxed, You did well by contacting me. Unfortunately, the national level of sci-fi knowledge continues to languish behind developed countries like Canada, where their experience with Stargate has really lifted the country's sci-fi literacy. Let me get off my high tauntaun and give you the answer. As you know Singh, or simply "Khan" as he's known, is a genetically altered leader and conqueror during the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s (the 1990s date is an invention of the Star Trek chroniclers to avoid scaring a 1967 general population already fearful of the Soviet Union). If you remember your history, the Eugenics Wars were a completely interhuman affair; no aliens took part in any of the fighting. Khan isn't, therefore, an alien, if one defines alien as a being from a planet besides the one you're typing o...
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Fun size: Obama's service to us all: Quack awareness:
2009-08-19 04:28:00
1. A lot of people are down on Obama right now, but that's only because they're focusing on his legislative performance instead of how much he's educated the populace. Just last month, I went to see my doctor about some shoulder pain. He ordered a battery of tests. I can see now that the doctor was practicing "defensive medicine." No big deal. Bills are paid by a third party. The real shocker came when I went back to see the test results: Me: OK, doc, what is it? Dr: Well, based on the tests, we're going to have to amputate your foot. Me: Huh? The pain's in my shoulder. Dr: I'm sorry. You went to medical school, where? Me: Doc, it's my shoulder! Dr: Foot or tonsils, pick one. Me: Neither. Dr: Well, if you'd rather go to a death panel and see what they say... I stopped him right there. He couldn't fool me. Death panels don't exist! I stormed out of the Dr.'s office. Thank you, Mr. Obama. 2. Ah, but Sarah Palin insists that DPs do exist and that they're goi...
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Discriminatory Underwear ads
2009-08-18 00:13:00
My wife and I each have our competencies. Although I still have to find mine (I've narrowed it down to complaining about the state of television and Stargate trivia), everybody in Pico Rivera is aware of my wife's skill in navigating the local Walmart. Things were shaken up this week, however, as my wife left to visit her sick mom. I had to feed myself. Well, I had to pay the guys at Taco Bell to feed me. I did have to feed the pets (woops! Quick, how many days can fish live without food?). I also had to clothe myself. When I ran out of underwear, I faced two choices: 1. Learn about bleach, loads, or whatever or 2. buy more underwear. So, I'm there at Walmart, and go over to the underwear section. Sidestepping the argument of why men still buy boxers in the 21st century, I'd like to ask another question: Why does the same underwear model appear on the package for the small size brief and the XXXXXL (yes, 5X, below) size? Who's Mr. Klein kidding? Heck, who are the purchasers...
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