Category Archives: rants
Things i don’t like.
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It’s a TARP!December 23, 2008
Okay, seriously — can somebody, please, stop the madness?
We’re going on nearly three months now since the shinola hit the fan. Nearly three months since Henry “Hank” Paulson and Bennie “Boom Boom” Bernanke came a-knockin with their spooky stories of financial apocalypse, and the doom that would befall the universe if [...] -
I don’t get it.December 8, 2008
UPDATE! I’ve been alerted to the possible presence of a new/prospective (?) Dunkin Donuts shop at 20022 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503. Google maps still lists the address as a Togos (and we all know how reliable Google Maps is in this regard, don’t we?), and the “steet view” looks more like a “Baskin [...]
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In-Active SoothingDecember 3, 2008
I have shampoo issues. Actually (and anyone who knows me with any degree of familial intimacy knows this) I have scalp issues, but for the purposes of this post, there’s not a lot of difference. I’ve had dry-scalp problems pretty much since infancy, when my chronic flakiness was called “cradle cap.” Now [...]
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Getting Out the VoteNovember 2, 2008
I only work every other Friday, and since this past Friday, Halloween, was my day off, and it’s looking like turnout for the General Election on Tuesday might be kind of bananas, I decided to trek down to Norwalk to cast my vote early.
Norwalk, you ask? Don’t you live in the Fairfax District, [...] -
Joe the Plumber…October 16, 2008
…is neither a “Joe” nor a plumber. Here’s some other interesting things I’ve learned about Mr. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher of Holland, OH since his name was invoked exactly 26 times during last night’s debate:
He is not now, nor was he last week or last night, undecided about his election choice. Despite some spelling [...]
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An Unmittigated AssOctober 15, 2008
I’m still watching the debate (late), and I’ve got a million other things to talk about & photos and everything, but I just listened to this:
John McCain is an ass. An ass. He gets no more kindness from me.
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McCain’s Hate Talk ExpressOctober 8, 2008
From today’s Cheers & Jeers from Kossak Bill from Portland, Maine:
“…I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say at this point that the campaign of John McCain—once touted as being oh-so-honorable by the Very Serious People who enjoyed his barbeque wings and fluffy cushions on the “Straight Talk Express”—is now one of terror. [...]
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You can put lipstick on a Wingnut…September 12, 2008
In the September 29, 2008 edition of The Nation essayist Katha Pollitt has some questions for Governor Palin:
Suppose your 14-year-old daughter Willow is brutally raped in her bedroom by an intruder. She becomes pregnant and wants an abortion. Could you tell the parents of America why you think your child and their children should be [...]
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So, I just figured it out.September 3, 2008
I’m listening to Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech as I type this, and I just realized why I’m having such a hard time paying attention to the GOP convention, and it goes way beyond the fact that I’m opposed to most of the GOP platform policies. I’m opposed to a number of the DNC platform [...]
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Of Chrome, Wingnuts, and MadnessSeptember 2, 2008
So, it’s possible you heard that Google sent its brand new contender into the fray of the ongoing Browser Wars today, and perhaps you cared enough to read beyond the headline. Not that Google didn’t make it easy — what better way to snag the interest of the average geek than by documenting it [...]
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Cup O’ Noodles: Seriously, What’s the Point?April 30, 2008
Ok, so they’re not technically Cup-O-Noodles brand — it’s one of those pretend-Asian noodle bowls you get at Whole Foods and Trader Joes — but the concept is the same: open container, add boiling water, get sick of waiting for desicated noodles and peas (those are peas, right?) to soften or plump up or something, [...]
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Quote of the DayApril 15, 2008
“…Where did we get this notion that the President of the United States should be a drinking buddy? Where did we get the notion that the strongest nation on earth should be led by a folksy, easy-to-like drunk? I don’t mean where did the country get this notion, I mean when did the media decide [...]
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All Lost in the SupermarketJanuary 22, 2008
It’s my brother’s birthday today, so on the way home from work I stopped at the supermarket to pick up some cake mix, and a carton of milk, and when I was queuing up to check out, there was a fracas going on in the express lane next to mine. Some old man was totally [...]
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Screamy McShoutsalot, Part the SecondOctober 30, 2007
So, the homeless guy who’s been living and screaming in the lot across from my apartment building was finally relocated to a better environment this past weekend. And when I say “relocated”, I mean tackled by the police and put in 4-point restraints… and when I say “a better environment” I really mean prison/psych-ward. [...]
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I Scream, You Scream, WE ALL SCRRREEEEAAAAAMMMM!!!!!October 16, 2007
I don’t scream very often, as it happens. The occasion just never presents, and frankly, on the few occasions when I was specifically asked to scream (eg. as Elaine in my high school’s production of Arsenic & Old Lace, c1990), I tend have a difficult time mustering the internal combustion that’s necessary for a really [...]