People have been complaining for decades about the declining journalistic standards of the American media.

I've never really cared enough about this to worry about it until about five minutes ago, when I noticed one of CNN's top stories:

"Do You Have Cankles?"

Sometimes I think about what people had to routinely endure "back in the day." When it was not uncommon for your teeth to rot through badly enough for someone to have to yank them out. When a cut from a farming implement could lead to a necessary amputation. When no matter how much pain you were in, the best you could was bite down on something ( Read more... )

Poll Medical CoverageHoop's latest post got me thinking about this. As someone who enjoys the game of politics, I'm finding this fairly entertaining. As I stated in response to Hoop, I do think that expanded medical coverage is inevitably going to come. Whether the pendulum stays to the left or shifts back to the right sooner than I think it will, it'll eventually ( Read more... )

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Star Trek IV has finally come true. Transparent aluminum! Here! Now!

Okay, not now, but for about 40 femtoseconds. Screw you, it's still neat.

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What's that? You want to see some pictures of Kyle where he's NOT flipping you off? Okay:


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I'm going to have to disagree with most of the people I know who've seen ROTF and seem to have loved it. I thought it was "Eh..." or maybe an "Okay" at best. I think the movie would have been MUCH better had it been about a half hour shorter, maybe more.

Spoilers below.

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