Extremely Lame

A-kon is this weekend in Dallas. I’ve been to my share of anime conventions and other gaming conventions, and maybe it’s my getting older, but they really don’t sit well with me anymore. Conventions used to be about a gathering of fellow like minded individuals for a weekend to share their common likes, be it [...]

[Read more →]

Are banks operating on narrower and narrower profit margins or are they just getting greedy? The latest in financial idiocy that a lot of people won’t realize until it’s too late because they don’t teach personal finance in school anymore? Debit cards that are tied to your 401(k).
Not only can the bank be netting interest [...]

[Read more →]

Less than a week after I post an entry about the jackbooted thugs in Arizona regarding arresting people for being drunk when they aren’t, we have another case of an Arizona cop abusing his authority and falsely imprisoning someone for DUI when said person was not just below the legal limit, but had a Blood Alcohol content of .00.

[Read more →]

No longer are our magazine racks graced with Sylvester P. Smythe and the half-assed wannabe parodies of Cracked magazine. Instead, now the interwebs and website aggregators like Digg and FARK are cluttered with the New & Improved Cracked.

[Read more →]

I was listening to one of the podcasts that I normally listen to, and the hosts were waxing nostalgic at how the media used to be objective and how they didn’t try to inject themselves into a story. They were wondering if this “new news” was different than “old news” because there isn’t that selfless, cold, and composed anchor talking about someone doing something terrible, like taking forty cakes.

[Read more →]

There are a number of crimes nowadays where you are automatically assumed to be guilty de facto if not actually assumed guilty du jure. Of these are sexual harrassment (if the victim is female and the accused is male), rape (same situation), anything related to terrorism, hate crimes, and drunk driving.

Actually, with regards to things like terrorism and drunk diving, you can be proven to not having broken the law and still be whisked away to jail or a detention center.

[Read more →]

I’ve been a fan of Richard Cheese and his band, Lounge Against the Machine, since I heard their first album in college. I heard it through a roommate and I went out and bought it. I’ve since gone out and bought all of his other ones as they’ve come out.
That said, I’m getting really really [...]

[Read more →]

Not only is raw food veganism oftentimes claims to cure pretty much every disease and malady known to man, a lot of times they delve into pseudoscience to explain things.
Let’s go back to top and go after Allison Cohen. All of her magical thinking with regards to raw foods is wrapped up in language that [...]

[Read more →]

Something I’ve noticed with people is that the stricter their diets become, the less I want to deal with them. Not because their diets scare me or anything, it’s just that they get more and more unpleasant to be around, not to mention completely deluded. Vegetarians are cool; it’s rare that you find one that [...]

[Read more →]

Well, it’s official. Jack Thompson has gone off the deep end. A judge has reviewed a complaint by the Florida Bar Association leveled against anti-video game crusader Jack Thompson and recommended that he be found guilty on 27 of their 31 complaints.

[Read more →]