I was talking to my good friend Matt Sudnik over the new year and was happy to find common ground on the issue of "identity politics." Frankly I don't like them, I didn't vote for Obama because he was black (as a southerner that was just a sort of cool mini-game like when they put Gradius in Legend of the Mystical Ninja). I think the specific ( Read more... )

God and man played hide-and-go-seek.
God told man, "Now man, don

Doesn't really piss me off so much (re: Obama picking him to deliver the invocation at the pres. inauguration ( Read more... )

When madmen were induced to talk they were first shown the instruments of their torture.

The King is shown His, to induce Him not to talk.

"Do you think that you are mad, sir?"
"I don't know. I don't know...Madness isn't such a torment, madness is only half blind. Madmen can stand, they skip their doubts. And I talk, and talk and talk and talk. I hear the words, I have to speak them, I have to empty my head of the words. Something has happened, something is not right. Oh,

John Quincy Adams ( Read more... )

Without Actors how would anyone know who to vote for?

Laughable psuedo truths are always a great part of my life.

I saw this earlier today: http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2008/12/a_healthy_democ.htmlRead more... )

"But as Deepak Chopra taught us: Quantum Physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason at all. Also eat plenty of Oatmeal and animals never had a war...who's the REAL animal????"
-Professor Farnsworth on the discovery of Dark Matter-

Is that the current wave of crime gripping sections of Chicago is a sort of karmic reaction to the institutional violence rampant in the CPD throughout the era of Dick Daley, sr.

Discuss.