Category: General

Did anyone else notice that the picture on the cover of Time Magazine, 14-Dec-2009, showing the President at West Point doesn’t show anyone who doesn’t have dark hair?

It occurred to me that I have been hearing and seeing some things from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that seem unconnected, but may not be.I see a lot of soldiers smoking cigarettes in pictures and on the news; I don’t know why that is, maybe because I haven’t had a cigarette in a…

“Hundreds of Bio Ceramic Dots!”  What the hell is that?  I’m guessing that it’s not harmful, just a bunch of hooey.It must really work, just look at the before and after drawings!from USA Weekend, 27-Sep-2009

I seem to remember seeing a visual to this piece of dialog, the sololoqy of Lady Macbeth, which comes from, “The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail” Massive Mob: (Marching) Oh, is this the dagger that we see before us?  The handle’s towards our…

CBS Sunday Morning did a story on people who think H1N1 influenza (and other not currently newsworthy) vaccinations are bad for you.  Did these people sleep through biology in High School?  Don’t they understand that the body develops immunity by being exposed to a weakened or similar copy of the pathogen?More than likely these people…

On 28 October 2008, Robin Harris at ZDNet wrote: Blu-ray is in a death spiral.  12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope.  Even $150…

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