BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China Games ‘a broadcast record’
The Chinese Olympic games are now history, and the viewership of these games was stellar because there were so many Chinese watching the games and because the games were so magnificent. Whether the human and environmental costs of the games were greater than the $40 billion (hey, [...]
Category Archive for 'Musings'
AIDS, Homelessness, Valor and Cowardice
Posted in Musings, Politics, Primordial Soup on Jul 29th, 2008
U.S. Reports Drop in Homeless Population | NYTimes.com
The evil liberal media dominators at the New York Times report on a Bush initiative that has had an apparently remarkable impact on the chronically homeless in the United States. What is especially surprising is that all sides of the issue seem to be in agreement that the [...]
BBC NEWS | Americas | Drug stash found in US police car
We are led to believe that the huge stash of cocaine found in this undercover Dallas police officer’s car was an accidental discovery. The car in question was an asset seized from a drug operation, and the police claim that drug traffickers have become [...]
Love is not a Scriptable Application
Posted in Musings on Jul 5th, 2008
Why is the stereotypical computer geek typically single? Because he can’t find a woman who is perfectly scriptable.
Not that the rest of us have not contemplated that prospect.
Environment Unlimited | Climate change | The denial industry
Global warming and its putative cause were always controversial within the scientific community. Global warming was an outlandish thesis from its inception because it was difficult to conceive that the scale of human activity would ever account for a measurable fraction of nature’s output. A century later, [...]
West Hollywood Book Fair
Posted in Musings, Politics, Primordial Soup on Oct 3rd, 2007
The West Hollywood Book Fair is not by any means the largest in the country or even in LA. The largest book fair in the primordial soup is indisputably the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which is held annually at UCLA. The West Hollywood Book Fair is a very small and civilized affair held [...]
Top BBC factual series including Rough Justice face axe | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
The old adage says that truth is the first casualty of war. The new adage might say that truth is the first casualty of the profit motive, too. The absurd obsession with cutting costs and maximizing profits has already decimated an entire [...]
Chemical & Engineering News: Letters-
The American Chemical Society remains the greatest professional society dedicated to chemistry because it is mature enough to respect and to publish dissenting opinions like mine. What a wonderful example for other institutions, the government especially, to emulate. Thank you, ACS.
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Nature is a cruel mother. She is so not because she has so many baby lions, birds and squirrels being eaten by predators, but because she makes you want to take a shit in the middle of a job interview.
Here. There. Somewhere. Nowhere. Elsewhere.
Where?
In the end,
before the end.
In the middle,
before the middle.
In the beginning
before the beginning.
Where to start? Where to continue? Where to end?
When to start? When to continue? When to end?
How to start? How to continue? How to end?
Why to start? Why to continue? Why to end?
Start? Continue? End?
Aspirations
Posted in Musings on Oct 22nd, 2005
There is that which I have penned.
There is that which I wish I had penned.
There is that which I wish to pen.
There is that which I wish I could pen.
There is that which I want to pen.
How do I reconcile it all with a pencil? Or with a keyboard?
Tough Questions
Posted in Musings on Oct 22nd, 2005
Who knows where evil lurks?
Who knows why evil lurks?
Who knows when evil lurks?
Who knows how evil lurks?
Who knows if evil lurks
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