Extremely Lame

And we Americans wonder why the world hates us. Or at least our government. The director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, went on Meet the Press yesterday, and came damned close to admitting that we torture people. I cannot believe the brass balls on this character. He’s making the argument that the CIA should [...]

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For as long as I can remember, government in the United States has been about making a lot of noise but getting pretty much nothing accomplished. Reading through history books and listening to professors in Political Science classes, apparently it wasn’t always this way. It seems that people from different political parties could actually work [...]

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Do you ever get the feeling that some people choose to get pissed at something popular just for the sake of being different?

I had the displeasure of reading a review on the series Firefly and the film Serenity as, and I quote: “A Rapist’s View of the World.”You will have to forgive me for choosing not to link it to this blog. Sure, it could be argued that I’m only doing it so that no one here can hear her side of the story. Of course, that would be wrong. I just don’t want there to be a spidersilk thread directly linking me to that crap. Go find it on Google.

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Poring through the newspaper at work, I came across a short article deriding certain California government officials for saying that Detroit auto makers “aren’t doing enough to improve fuel economy.” The article then compares gas mileage ratings from many years ago to those today and compares the percentages each auto maker has dropped. Interestingly, all [...]

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A long time ago, back in the ’90s, it became no longer fashionable to be a Young Urban Professional (yuppie). Reaganomics effectively died with Black Monday, the stock market crash in 1987. Teenagers, always a bastion of change and rebellion, ushered in a new culture in the late ’80s. Fueled by the alternative music scene [...]

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 …we’ll just screw your credit score and not bother to tell you about it.
Well, well, well. I now know why I couldn’t get my credit approved the other day. It seems that my last electric company sent a collection agency after me and my ex after we were told by the apartment complext that they [...]

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In the beginning, there was QuickTime. A media player designed to play Apple’s proprietary formats on their proprietary computers. Shortly afterwards, it was released for Windows computers as well, so they could easily watch things in these formats as well.
Then came iTunes. This allowed you to easily sync up your Apple iPod to your computer. [...]

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Dave & Buster’s is a small national chain of restaurants/midways (restaurant/boardwalks for those of you who live in coastal New England) that you’ll typically see only in large cities, most often in the South Central part of the country. If you haven’t been there, think Applebee’s meets Chuck E. Cheese. Except, you know, for adults.
It [...]

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I have wanted a laptop for some time. For the longest time, I had a desire to drink the Flavor Aid* and get a MacBook Pro, partly because of Vista sucking so bad, but mostly because of how stabby Windows Genuine Advantage makes me. WGA is Microsoft’s anti-piracy update that has targeted millions of computers [...]

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People who live in upper middle class suburbs but do nothing but complain about the suburbs hold a special place of ill will in my heart, particularly the ones from the boomer generation. But for now, I’ll just focus on metropolitan gastronomic hayseeds.
As you may infer from my name for them, metropolitan gastronomic hayseeds are [...]

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