Great Moments in Saturday Morning Cartoons 29 January, 2009

After some of the most popular movies made in the late 80s and 90s, it was inevitable that a batman cartoon would be made. What people didn’t expect was that it’d be so bloody good. Bruce Timm decided to make a cartoon that captured the essence of the comic and movies, [...]

Two Jokes About Cows 27 January, 2009

Q: How do you hide a cow?
A: With Cow-Moo-Flage
Cow 1: This Mad Cow Disease thing’s pretty scary.
Cow 2: Doesn’t worry me. I’m a duck.

Great Moments in Saturday Morning Cartoons 25 January, 2009

Star Blazers (AKA Space Battleship Yamato) was the first Japanese soap opera epic to make its way into Saturday Morning Cartoon programming. What Star Blazers, and its spiritual successor Macross brought was long storylines, complex characters, desperate situations and well rounded bad guys.
Oh, and the Wave Motion Gun, which is, in [...]

Goodbye Bush 22 January, 2009

I’m not one to talk about American Politics that much, but I will say this; Evil or not, I’m gonna miss seeing Dana Perino in my news.

Right, time for a Joke 19 January, 2009

Man: “Doctor Doctor, my bum hurts”
Doctor:  “Right, take off your pants, bend over, let’s have a look at it.”
Man: (does so)
Doctor: “My God!”
Man: “What is it?”
Doctor: “There’s a rolled up $20 note sticking out of your bum!”
Man: “What?”
Doctor: “You heard me.  Do you want me to pull it out?”
Man: “Yes!”
Doctor: (does so) “My god!”
Man: “What?”
Doctor: [...]

QIYUF # 4: Semantic Shift 18 January, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Quite Interesting Yet Useless Fact.
Semantic Shift is where a word’s meaning changes over time.  They move, expand, contract, etc, some can mean the complete opposite to what they originally were.  Not that this is a quick thing.  It generally takes a few millenium.
For example, the word Hound [...]

On Freedom 15 January, 2009

Part 3 of why good things aren’t that great (see part 1 and 2 on human rights and democracy) is about Freedom.
Ah freedom, how beautiful a thing you isn’t.
Freedom isn’t an inherently good thing.  It is only a good thing after a lot of qualifications, restrictions, and clarifications are made.
Well, that’s not entirely true.  Freedom for [...]

Documentaries 13 January, 2009

Documentaries about the history of mundane things are fascinating.
A history of Clothes.
A history of Alcohol.
A history of Blood.
A history of sowing machines.
Fascinating things.  The reason is simple, none of them are so political as to warrant someone glorifying their history for their own ends.  The histories of countries, ideologies, celebrities, politicians, wars, etc are either [...]

Political Theory 8 January, 2009

Libertarians scare me more than Fascists. At least a paranoid police state cares about what you say and do.

My Most Recent Date 6 January, 2009

ME: “So yeah, since I’ve started my current job, I feel my vocab has just dropped through the floor. I feel less…less…”
HER: Erudite?
ME: What the hell does Erudite mean?!? I mean, yeah, Erudite, Verbose, Eloquent, them words.