Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars. via Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews.
The kids and myself headed to the mountains this AM for a 8 mile circuit hike of Old Rag. I’m not going to lie to you Marge, it wasn’t the easiest hike we’ve done. Steeply up for the first 3 miles, with lots of rock hopping, actual hand over hand rock climbing, and several leaps [...]
When you can fit 20,000 songs on a thumb drive, and 1000 books on a Kindle, the concept of a “collection” becomes sort of meaningless. I was thinking about this recently as I scrolled through my MP3 collection, wondering where the heck some of the stuff on my server even came from. Back in the [...]
Today Congress is debating SOPA, which will essentially give big business the power to censor the Internet of anything they don’t like. They’ve completely stacked the deck with 5 out 6 witnesses being plants by the pro-SOPA lobbyists. I’m not exaggerating when I say this bill, if passed, will essentially break the Internet and cost [...]
Regular readers know that I am a big Butch Walker fan. So it did not take me long to ante up for his first book, Drinking With Strangers. It’s insightful, occasionally touching, but mostly it’s just damn funny. We learn how a hair metal band can sign a $400,000 contract yet still be essentially living [...]
Yeah, it’s funny now. But in 1999, the Clinton administration was projecting that the US would be debt free next year. The economy was booming and the government was running a surplus. They even were studying the question of what that would mean. It’s not as easy as it sounds. The Treasury Bond is the [...]
60 days of having less Google in my life, and somehow, my life doesn’t feel empty of less fulfilling at all. Huh. I’m a raving fan of Duck Duck Go. I strongly encourage both my readers to give it a try. I don’t miss Google search at all. As mentioned in the last update, I [...]