So I had a chance to have a political discussion with a couple of educated and well informed individuals over the last few days, something which I was really looking forward to since people generally can't hold a discussion outside of whether or not they think Palin's daughter secretly had a kid.

After getting into a heavy discussion primarily with ( Read more... )

For almost a year I have been going on about the likelihood if not inevitability of a depression.  Now, as banks continue to collapse, I'm actually beginning to hear financial analysts use the D word in the context of what's happening now.

This seemed so obvious and inevitable if you know anything about how our economy works, but sadly most people ( Read more... )

I went to the clinic yesterday and got tested for STD's.  I have no reason to worry, but I'd never been tested, and what the hell.

The nurse told me they were going to take a culture after she drew my blood.  She also said not to go to the bathroom in the next ten minutes.  This worried me.

As it turns out, with good reason.  A culture involves ( Read more... )

Getting a professional to say something which disputes the information at hand is fairly easy, after all, doctors used to think smoking was not only not bad, but was actually good for you ( Read more... )

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The anniversary of 9/11 is coming up, so I'll be taking this time to present some arguments with links in dispute of the rather flimsily constructed official story.

I know this is going to prompt some people to argue, and as in the past I expect to see many of the same arguments again.  So I'm going to take some time to address them in advance ( Read more... )

I know that everybody likes to keep up on the newest terminology, the hip new slang, um...yo.  So I thought it would interest you to know that people no longer "plan to protest", instead, and I think you'll agree this is much cooler, they are engaged in a "Conspiracy to riot in the furtherance of Terrorism".

People generally thought the argument ( Read more... )

Well, I'm always saying things are going to get worse, and I'm always delighted to be proved right.  Of course, one hardly has to be Nostradamus to see the shit slide we're rapidly moving along, but that won't prevent me from gloating, "I told you so!" to my fellow detainees as we're rounded up into camps.

I know, I'm an alarmist.  We would never ( Read more... )

There's a BBC documentary called the Trap, about how representative Democracy was replaced with something supposedly far superior, which I'll call consumer democracy.  The idea is this.  You don't need to vote, and you don't need real representation, because your real freedom lies in the mall.  It doesn't matter who your representative is, because ( Read more... )

Boy I'm glad we're getting a president who understands that Afghanistan is "the good war". Sure we went in there because they were giving refuge to Osama, and sure he's in Pakistan now, but that's besides the point. The point is that we can finish building our bases in Iraq, which will allow us to continue our occupation with less troops, rebrand ( Read more... )