It's a week old, but Alec Baldwin made one of the best common sense arguments for gay marriage to date:

"One perspective, however, keeps coming back at me. Fundamentalists believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and for the purpose of creating a family. A gay couple is incapable of having their own children, they assert, so they do not ( Read more... )

This is an actual phone call I got at the office a little while ago.  The phone rang while I was talking to my feature writer, and I picked it up, saying my usual, "Good morning, Marion Times ( Read more... )

I preordered my copy of The Sims 3 today.  Now next Tuesday, all I have to do is survive press day and a city council meeting, and then I can pick it up and be on my merry way.

As with the first two games, my first act will be to buy a grill, set it in my Sims' living room, have them start a cookout (cook-in?), and watch in glee as the poor bastards ( Read more... )

Rain, rain, rain.  I wonder what May showers bring?  It wouldn't be spring, by any chance?  Seriously, after spending most of the winter below zero, we haven't had nearly enough days of warm, sunny days to make up for it.

We've had one consistently great weekend in Iowa in 2009, so far.  After living in my apartment for six months, I finally started ( Read more... )

After some of the weaker episodes of the series, LOST once again pulled off an awesome season finale last night, though it hasn't sunk in that there are only 17 episodes left (probably because last night continued the time-honored tradition of few answers, and a shit-ton of new questions).

I've been going through some discussion forums and Lostpedia ( Read more... )

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette Online:

"Officials have said the virus was spreading person-to-person and cannot be contracted from eating cooked pork."

Just cooked pork?  Sure, lead the Lowest Common Denominators into continuing to think they have more to fear from raw sausage than botulism (or E. coli or Salmonella...you get the point).

As I Twittered ( Read more... )

The 1970s were a dark time for William Shatner.  Work dried up after Star Trek was canceled in 1969, his marriage failed, and he was reduced to living in a van, down by the river (it was actually a truck camper in the San Fernando Valley).  To make ends meet, he appeared at parties and allowed penguins to do horrible things to him:

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Is it sad that I ( Read more... )

For the second time, I have fallen asleep trying to get through "Spock's Brain."  I wonder if I should take this as a sign.  It is, after all, supposed to be the absolute worst episode of Original Trek.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be able to get through the rest of Season 3.

This video seems to hit the highlights of the episode:

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I vow that nothing will come between me and my support of independent coffee shops, except for Starbucks' chai tea frappuccino.

When I was over at the Post Office this morning, someone's total at one of the counters near mine was -- I shit you not -- $4.20.  My face lit up in a dumb grin and I looked around to see if anyone else caught it, but as I was the only one in the 18-30 demographic around, the humor was lost on the rest of the customers ( Read more... )