At long last, physicists at CERN in Europe have found something that looks like the elusive Higgs Boson, also called the God Particle. It seems to me that the physicists themselves are pleased, but not ecstatic. It seems to be the media who are waxing poetic about this particle.
Continue readingRichard Wagner
Every so often someone asks me, with awe, “did you know that Wagner never went to music school?” My response is that it’s obvious from his music. I don’t know *why* so many people are amazed that Wagner didn’t go to music school. In fact, I don’t even know if it’s true. But every so often someone brings it up again.
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The Dangers Of Combat
A New York Times article reports that more of our soldiers are dying as a result of suicide than from enemy fire.
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The Grammar Nazis
I often encounter people who make a big deal about spelling and grammar. They insist that these issues are important, that a person who doesn’t use “correct” grammar and spelling is ignorant, or at least beneath notice. I disagree with them.
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Missing Persons
A recent news article informs me that a man kept his deceased wife’s body in a freezer for the past ten years.
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Hate Crimes
In New York someone attacked a cab driver, allegedly because the driver was a Muslim. There is a question of whether this is a hate crime.
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The Trouble With Kids These Days
Continue readingThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Attributed to Socrates
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Mayan Calendar
A lot of people are concerned that the world is going to end on December 21, 2012 (give or take). They reason that the Mayan calendar ends on that day – or perhaps the day before. Once the calendar ends, that’s all she wrote. The world comes crashing down around our heads.
This is fucking stupid.
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Put The Commas In
Journalists, when you’re writing largish numbers (that would be numbers with more than four digits), would you *PUHLEEZ* put the fucking commas in? I can’t tell the difference between 300000 and 3000000 or even 30000000. Come on, how hard would it be to put in a comma every three digits?
Didn’t your teachers ever tell you about that stuff?
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Hero’s Welcome
According to this article, a lifeguard was fired for saving someone’s life. Supposedly, by abandoning his post to run to the rescue of a drowning swimmer, Thomas Lopez endangered the lives of the people Lopez was supposed to be watching.
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