If poisoning is the answer, I don’t want to know the question. There’s this thing going around now called “rollin’ coal.” You’ve probably heard of it. On a small scale I don’t think […]
Rollin’ coal: a trend that must, nay, will end
Frank Balsinger
Lifelong student with interests a mile wide and an inch deep. Autodidact. Pedant, hopefully of the slightly more pleasant sort. Sharer of things learned along the way. Lately of a creative bent.
Right-wing Christian group tried to convert this city’s kids — but they’re fighting back @ AlterNet
Right-wing Christian group tried to convert this city’s kids — but they’re fighting back “The Good News Club curriculum is filled with over 5,000 references to sin and thousands more to obedience, […]
Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: you owe us one hell of an explanation
Did Facebook’s scientific study contribute to user suicides? We’ll never know, but statistics demand that we ask the question. Dear Mr. Zuckerberg: As the title of this post indicates, you owe us […]
Facebook tramples human research ethics and gets published by PNAS for the effort
Facebook may have experimented with controlling your emotions without telling you I start out an angry bastard on most days, but that’s just before coffee. After that, I actually lighten up and […]
Vice Chairman of MS Tea Party suicided?
A tragic tale of WTF in the first degree The first I heard of any of this was via Raw Story just “now” (Fri 6/27 PM), but f*!#$ them and their ideological […]
Open letter to the National Republican Congressional Committee
Creeps and jigaboos and death wishes, oh, my! Dear National Republican Congressional Committee: Your Facebook page is one of those pages that makes me answer the question, “what does a Like even mean?” in […]
In defense of Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day
As you may have heard, our go-to groundhog is only right 39% of the time, at least when it comes to predicting winter’s duration. A coin toss would be a better predictor […]
State of the Union Address – rebuttal from the easy chair
If there’s anything better than screaming at football or rasslin’ on the tee vee, it’s throwing fits at political speeches. First things first. The Onion captured my evening just about perfectly, except […]
The irony runs deep with this one: Norquist vs. Cruz smackdown
Grover Norquist slams Cruz: ‘He pushed House Republicans into traffic and wandered away’ Prominent Republican lobbyist Grover Norquist accused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of causing the shuttering of government operations by selling […]
I hate to say it, but the GOP is right
I hope you didn’t sprain anything or break anything irreplaceable. For what it’s worth, you people have no idea how hard it is to resist the trite “wipe coffee off monitor” quip […]
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