China brutally oppresses people in Tibet. People protest in Tibet. China brutally oppresses them some more. So people in London and Paris protest when Beijing Olympic Torch makes its way through. Things get crazy. The IOC briefly considers not continuing on to San Francisco. China says, however ( Read more... )

I've decided to give up my motorcycle, Lazarus. He had a good run, but when those twisted fuckers tried to steal it, they left the ignition all messed up and getting it towed and fixed will cost several hundred bucks ( Read more... )

For much of my young life I sucked at throwing. Baseball was always a mediocre point for me. I had right rotator cuff tendinitis badly enough to require months of physical therapy on two separate occasions from playing violin and tennis. I didn't learn to write in cursive until undergrad. My right arm, generally, sucks ( Read more... )

I was walking down the street in Oakland near the courthouse and found a crumpled $100 bill on the ground. The street was literally empty and no one was around. I thought about what I should do... in the end I just kept it.

Sonya and I pool our money but divide up the chore of actually paying the bills. She gets rent and power; I get everything else. We've never once been late on rent. Sonya hadn't, apparently, paid the electricity bill since September. Law students are busy. These things happen. But PG&E still shuts your power off all the same, as they did ( Read more... )

Democratic presidential tickets I most want to see ( Read more... )

It's a bit frustrating that the media coverage of the Democratic primaries has focused on candidates "winning" states since it just doesn't work that way... The candidates are apportioned delegates by precinct, not by state, and then the total number of delegates won is aggregated across the entire country. So basically if you win 30% of the votes ( Read more... )

We like to think of the USSR as the comically incompetent participant in the Cold War... This is pretty bad though ( Read more... )

So, someone pops the emoting program tape reel (baby boomer technology, remember?) into the Clinton-a-maton; some petroleum-based synthetic jaw lubricant manufactured by a joint Pfizer-Chevron effort (and gifted to the campaign) is rerouted from her carbon-poly upper mandible joint through the completely hollow space behind her face; an artificial ( Read more... )

My New Year's resolution is to laugh more. I have lots of other important goals for the year, but tying them together into a single New Year's resolution would be too many eggs in one karmic basket ( Read more... )