ANCIENT RITES AND RANTS (AND IMMORTAL BULLSHIT)

When I first heard of the shooting deaths of three people, two of them faculty members and one staff member, and the wounding of three other...

The trouble is not in your set. This is only a test.

The pseudo-science that is the religion of man-made Global Climate Change has been dealt yet another severe blow, this time by one of its ma...

World famous fashion designer Alexander McQueen is dead , and although there has been no official statement as of yet, he apparently committ...

Thanks for the use of pictures from the Wordpress blog of Josh Blackman goes to Josh Blackman, a legal blogger who currently blogs at Josh ...

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Happy Imbolc

Imbolc is the time to recognize and celebrate the fragile beginnings of the promise of spring, when grasses, plants, and vegetation begins t...

I was surprised to learn how varied Haitian cuisine is. This on-line Haitian cookbook features quite a wide variety of meat, coups, salads,...

Since the death of JD Salinger has been in the news, and I've learned more about his lone novel The Catcher In The Rye, I've become ...

I've been under the impression that T-Bone Burnett was a country artist, maybe even Bluegrass, but damn if this doesn't sound Lennon...

Obama has decided to end the Ares rockets program which was to be the precursor to NASA's next stage of manned moon landings, instead ch...

Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow, so six more weeks of bad weather, but if the folks of PETA have their way, Phil will be put out to pa...

It's a general weakness of mankind that we tend to treat what we consider "beautiful" or "attractive" people better ...

A short Israeli horror film that demonstrates how when fear seeps inside your head it can transform the slightest worries into aspects of pu...

As if people don't have enough stupidity to contend with, there is currently a debate on-going about the benefits of circumcision . It t...

They say you're never too old to try new things and so, true to the spirit of Imbolc, perhaps we should nurture the budding new career o...

Asiz Ansari is a hilarious up-and-coming stand-up comedian, and also a star of NBC's Parks And Recreation. Thanks to him, it is now a ma...

Anybody that is familiar with this blog should know by now that I have no compunctions about linking to blogs that I don't agree with. I...

Ten Americans were arrested for trying to take Haitian children across the border to the Dominican Republic. I don't know what the fuck...

The Super Bowl is a group oriented event. It's a time for friends and family. Fathers and sons, and more often anymore females of the fa...

Seems fitting to remember this event that happened the day before Imbolc, fifty years ago today, February 1st, when four black college stud...

I used to hate people that said when you fall of a bike you have to dust yourself off and get right back on. I still do. Then along comes Sh...

New York City official stats suggest their crime rate is as low as it's been since the late nineteen sixties. You know, back in the day...

Hey kids, this is the truth-fighting solves NOTHING! If you are having trouble with a bully, the following video shows exactly the best way ...

Howard Zinn recently died. In case you weren't aware, Zinn was a historian of sorts who wrote a book titled The People's History of ...

After the embarrassing fiasco of the East Anglia e-mail scandal, many of us felt the Global Climate Change movement was certainly dead. But,...

Peace in our world remains an elusive dream, as fragile as it ever was, what with the North and South Koreans shooting at each other, China ...

If you were fortunate enough to have missed, or skipped, the President's State of The Union address, have no fear, you can now read, cou...

This calls for a caption contest. What a tool.

Nothing but a fan vid, but a pretty good one, especially for a teenager. Pretending can be fun, sharing it with the world through YouTube-pr...

This is interesting. You get to vote on the Pepsi Refresh Project for the best ideas, the winner in each month receiving millions of dollar...

I honestly don't know what to make of this, though if it is true that James O'Keefe, conservative filmmaker and investigator, actual...

Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate race has been called a shot heard round the world, and that is probably not an exagger...

Somebody who is undoubtedly associated with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie leaked a story to a British tabloid to the effect that the pair wer...

I don't know how many people watched the Telethon for Haiti that permeated broadcast television Friday night, I do know I didn't. Ev...

First, Pat Robertson blamed it on God's anger over a pact with the devil. Then, Danny Glover blamed it on Gaea's anger over the coll...