So I saw some footage of Glenn Beck at the CPAC convention this evening. Apparently progressivism is something to be feared, and anyone who presents themselves as such is a Marxist psychopath who wants to evolve our country into something... eeeevil.What John Dickinson said to John Adams of independence in the service of the status quo, I say to ( Read more... )

So now that it's the dawn of the next decade, I started looking back through things that have occured in the last ten years. There's been some awesome stuff and kind of a lot of bullcrap. We'll see which parts seem important in another ten years, but this is the stuff that I found interesting. ^^

( IN THE YEAR TWO-THOUSAAAAAAAND )

As is our tradition, my family went out today for a Christmas movie. We're all pretty big Sherlock Holmes fans, so the new Holmes movie was a no-brainer. I had some reservations about the film -- Holmes was no pacifist, but Action Hero Holmes makes me nervous, as does the whole "Black Magician Wants to Rule the World" plot -- but the end result was ( Read more... )

* Roku-tired catches up on colbert
Roku-tired: well........I'm never eating snapper again >_>
CactuarJoe: What's the matter, don't like HIDEOUS TONGUE PARASITES?
CactuarJoe: :D
Roku-tired: =D
Roku-tired: =|=D)
* Roku-tired throws up a little
CactuarJoe: XD

Five Commercials I am Officially Sick Of

1. Billy Mays: The only thing worse than a shrill, shouting pitchman hocking a useless piece of undercooked fraud? A shrill, shouting zombie pitchman! It kills me a little bit inside to know that someone, somewhere said, "You know what'd be a good idea? A Billy Mays marathon." Coming across these ( Read more... )

Hoppin' on the bandwagon. I am a bandwagon hopper.

( The symbols are based on glands. Creeeeepy. )

Roku-busy: oh, joe, why don't you go as kira or L? those are easy ( Read more... )

Changed up my icons for the first time pretty much ever. The new ones are from the upcoming FFXII comic. I figured they work well with this journal's color scheme anyway, why not use 'em. ^^b

I came across a quote from Mark Twain today that confused me a little;

"I was a mugwump. We, the mugwumps, a little company made up of the unenslaved of both parties, the very best men to be found in the two great parties-that was our idea of it-voted sixty thousand strong for Mr. Cleveland in New York and elected him. Our principles were high, ( Read more... )

I think I've probably done something like this before, but oh well. More memes ( Read more... )