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Butcher the Phrase

Ok, people, the phrase is “worse comes to worst,” not “worst comes to worst.” It’s a progression of bad to even more bad.  If you start at ‘worst,’ it can’t really get any more bad from there.  It’s already the worst it can possibly be.  Let’s get it right, ok?

Ostrich Syndrome, Anyone?

Ok, I’m sorry – but our President and his administration are a bunch of idiots.  [via: Scalzi]

We Need Better Leaders

It’s incidents like this one that demonstrate to me that there is a general sense of paranoia in American culture these days that borders on insanity.  In the article linked above, you have a father who mistakenly ordered a hard lemonade for his 7-year-old son, followed by the hysteria of the ballpark guard and the [...]

Superfluity in Capitalism

I will never cease to be amazed by the amount of crap goods out there for sale, as for example, this mustache comb necklace.  In sterling silver.  For $120.  And that people will actually waste their money and buy these things.  We truly live in a luxurious economy where 1) someone would even conceive of [...]

Who?

Is it just me, or does the Qualified Candidate pool get smaller, shallow, and more stagnant with every election cycle?

IQ Tests That Really Aren’t

I’m kind of annoyed by all the so-called intelligence tests that keep popping up on Facebook.  Most of these tests cover topics like celebrities, TV shows and movies, music, etc. – essentially topics involving entertainment and popular media in US culture.  There are several things about these ‘tests’ that annoy me:

Entertainment is a stupid metric for an intelligence [...]

Care Less or More?

Ack!  People, people – it’s “I couldn’t care less,” not “I could care less.” The former states that there is no more care to be given, that you really don’t care at all and that you can’t possible care any less than you do because you are already completely devoid of care.  The latter says that [...]

Verbs!

Wow…. folks, pay attention to your verb tenses when you write.  Please, for the love of all that’s good and pure (and for the sake of my sanity).  Here’s a hint: plural verb tenses go with multiple subjects.  Singular verb tenses go with single subjects.  And if I used any words here that you don’t [...]

Deathly Hallowed

I can’t wait to get my own copy of Deathly Hallows.  It’s going to be difficult and annoying trying to avoid spoilers of the book until I do.  I think it’s really quite rude and aggravating when people who are able to rush out and grab the book and read it immediately then proceed to [...]

Captcha Hate

Y’know, I really abhor image verification utilities that don’t respect field margins so that, for instance, you can’t determine whether the letter is an ‘E’ or an ‘F’ because it’s dropped off the bottom edge of the field.

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