During an interview with Jay Leno, Patton referred to himself as a member of the "Illuminerdi." (What's generally charming about nerds is their outsider status. When they become vainglorious status seekers they lose their appeal, as both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have demonstrated ( Read more... )

I have a crush on Obama. Not like I love him or anything. I don't want 12 million of his babies. And only in my dreams have I considered making out with him. In real life he is a little too straight for my tastes ( Read more... )

Haha! It looks like I thwarted death the common cold yet again. Screw you, wee little beasties of the throat and nasal passage!!! Tomorrow morning in celebration I will go jogging.

Aw, shit. I can feel illness coming on. My throat feels dry and scratchy like there is a little desert in there. And my ears just started popping like they are clearing out. Also, I feel a bit queasy. I want to file a formal complaint. Last year I got that nasty, awful, no good sickness that left me coughing and hacking for over two months. I ( Read more... )

Errol Morris is my favorite filmmaker. There is nobody who does quite what he does with the level of articulation and clarity. I cannot wait to see this in the theater.

So James Carville likened Bill Richardson to Judas for endorsing Barack Obama. Because, you know, the Clinton administration (which Richardson was a part of as Energy Secretary and as an ambassador to the United Nations) is a fiefdom and once you pledge allegiance to it you can never go back. Screw all that talk about voting for the best candidate ( Read more... )

Two different subjects completely unrelated to each other. Like, COMPLETELY unrelated ( Read more... )

I've been living in Oakland for two years now. Two years!!! It seems impossible that it could have been that long. It seems like someone pressed the fast-forward button ( Read more... )

According to Valleywag the lady who was revealed as being the professional escort for Eliot Spitzer has made over $200,000 off of her online music sales ( Read more... )

. . . One in Four girls in the U.S.A. have an STD!!!

Thank god Texas representatives scrapped that HPV vaccine legislation for teenage girls. Those little whores should learn to keep their legs crossed.

Here is a list of vaccines that Texas requires a child to have in order to attend public schools, and while there IS a certain segment of the ( Read more... )