10/28/2004

Seen on Slashdot:

“In a stunning admission that post Ptolemaic science may in fact be an acceptable realm of study, the Vatican announced today that it is entirely plausible that gravity, in fact, exists. This reverses nearly two thousand years of Christian theology which until now had answered such questions with ‘God says so, case closed, now go home and make more Catholics.'”

10/27/2004

I was reading some riotously funny 419 reverse-scam stories today, and realized I haven’t gotten any of the classic 419 e-mail messages for a long time now. No more “PLEASE TO HELP ME DEPOSIT SUM OF $33,500,000 THIRTY-THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS U.S.” requests, no more widows of poor Central African diplomats, no more government coups leaving hundreds of millions of unclaimed reconstruction projects.

Funny how when the spam filters are working, you sort of miss the cheesy old-fashioned entertainment spam.

Naturally I still see some now and again about how I can refinance a quarter-million-dollar loan for $200 a month (on what, a 120-year repayment plan?) or enhance my, ahem, manliness and girth. But those aren’t nearly as funny.

10/24/2004

Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate for president, was responding to questions and said this beautiful quote:

If the current leadership continues in power, they’ll continue their efforts to snuff out what remains of American freedom in the name of national security, health security, job security, [and] social security.

10/23/2004

The phone just rang, and Alex ran to answer it. He listened for a minute and then hung it up. A little confused, I asked him who it was.

“It was some recording telling me to vote for George W. Bush.”
“So, are you going to vote for George W. Bush?”
“Nope, I’m going to vote for John Kerry.”
“Why?”
“Because he has a canary named Sunshine.”

The Kerry campaign would be thrilled to know they’ve got another seven-year-old voter on their rolls.

10/23/2004

There’s little doubt that I’ve become terribly cynical about our entire system of government when I see quotes like the one below, and agree wholeheartedly with them.

“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

— George Bernard Shaw

10/23/2004

We finally picked The Great Pumpkin and put it on the front porch with our other (normal) pumpkins.

The pumpkin weighs almost 90 pounds, and I’m sure it’s going to be a hoot to carve…

10/21/2004

It’s so much fun getting the mail these days. As we enter the final few weeks of the election campaigns, it seems like every day the pile of idiotic political flyers increases. Most of them don’t even have any real content; they just have pictures of cute smiling kids and say things like “Vote for Stan Yarby… because his opponent is a loser who wants to put these kids on an express train to Siberia.” No mention of issues, no sir! It’s just a contest to see who can fling the most last-minute mud.

With that in mind, I decided to make a couple of political postcards myself. I figure they’re even more to the point, and would probably influence the voters who actually read these things.