Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Disingenuousness

    I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.David Byrne

  • Is Sex Interesting?

    From an essay, “Writing About Sex,” by Wallace Shawn from Harpers, August 2009.Sex is of course an extraordinary meeting place of reality and dream, and it’s also—what is not perhaps exactly the same thing—an extraordinary meeting place of the meaningful and the meaningless.  The big toe, for example, is one part of the human body,…

  • What is time?

    It’s generally accepted to be the fourth dimension, height, width, depth, and time, but now physics is trying to quantify its properties.  The following article in Wired explains: What is time?.

  • God forced to recall humans

    There was bad news for God this week as the well-known deity was forced to recall thousands of examples of His popular Human Being after reports that the model could be prone to unexpected attacks of unbelievable stupidity.Initial reports of blithering idiocy emerged from the United States last year but these were thought to be…

  • Spring… I can see it coming

    Saw a guy on the corner of Fairview and Saint Clair on my way home picking up his laundry; and he was wearing cheap junky flip-flops.  Ahhhh, 40F in Minnesota; time to wash the car!

  • How about the Dalai Lama?

    People with no data aren’t worth listening to.Michael Jones, Google’s chief technology advocate

  • In honor of the winter Olympics, a little known fact…

    The first testicular guard (“Cup”) was used in Hockey in 1874, and the first helmet was used in 1974.That means it took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.via email from John Treworgy, Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:07:53 -0800Or… they realized their brain was important and 100 years later that…