I made this a long time ago, and recently re-discovered it while searching my docs folder for something unrelated. I thought it might be postworthy, so here you go. The derivations of the names of all the states in the US, with smart-ass comments of mine added in for fun ( Read more... )

sometimes, a movie or TV show will give the specific date of some event that takes place. Sometimes it's deliberate, other times, it can be inferred from various other events within the story. One way or another, some movie events are fixed at a specific date. Here's a few that I was able to pin down. I deliberately do not mention the movie titles ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the unique identifier on a tinyurl page spells a word. So here is some wisdom from the gods handed down in the form of tinyurl ( Read more... )

I'm a Supreme Court groupie. I love to watch how they end up doing things. And this most recent decision, in District of Colombia v. Heller, was *very* interesting to me ( Read more... )

I had arthroscopic knee surgery yesterday to trim a torn meniscus. Here are some pics from the inside of my knee ( Read more... )

So how should we nationalize healthcare, then ( Read more... )

I personally don't think nationalizing healthcare is a good idea. I feel this way for a number of reasons that I won't go in to here, because that would best be served as a topic for another post ( Read more... )

I am so sick of the expression "Illegal War". It is stupid, poorly thought-out propaganda. There are many solid, legitimate reasons to be against the war. "Illegal" is not one of them. What the hell is "Illegal" supposed to mean ( Read more... )

I just got myself a new pool table and I love it ( Read more... )

In my continuing analysis of how the Democrats can possibly blow this election, I present: Obama's nutjob pastor ( Read more... )