Well I’m disappointed in The History Channel. They aired a program this last weekend in their “History’s Mysteries” series on Conspiracy Theories. And it did a good job in presenting a case for the conspiracies, and nothing for discounting them. Personally, I’m a big fan of conspiracy theories. I love anything dealing with the Illuminati, [...]
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“New Craze/Pastime” Is a Rare and Ancient Ritual
CNN article on the body-mod ritual of suspension. Well, I just lost a lot of respect for CNN. Granted, they can’t be “up” and “hip to” every counter and sub-culture out there, but they can tone down the blatant and unfounded sensationalism somewhat. Basically, a group of people wre found on a beach practicing “suspension.” [...]
READ MORE »The Wonderfulcles of Riddick!
“Chronicles of Riddick” is at the cheap movies now. Holymotherofflippingfreakingoodnessheck! I have not walked out of a theater as excited and inspired and as this in years! As completely unimpressed as and nonplussed as I was coming out of “Tomb Raider” is completely opposite to what I feel post-Riddick. The 1st “The Crow” movie inspired [...]
READ MORE »Fiction on the Sci-Fi(ction) Channel? No way!
CNN article explaining SciFi special a hoax Background (in case you don’t want to read the article nor watch Sci-Fi channel commercials,) in conjunction with M. Night Shaymalan’s new movie “The Villiage”, Sci-Fi Channel produced a documentary that was supposed to be an expose’ on M. Night that gets “too personal” and M. Night refuses [...]
READ MORE »Terrah Condition Magenta, Citizens!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/13/terror.security.reut/index.html I actually heard someone from the Bush administration today on NPR, who otherwise had perfect diction, pronounce “terror” as terrah. What a bunch of lackies and sycophants he has up there with him. Anyway, really, what good is the alert system when you’re constantly being told “terror is immenent! But we have no information, [...]
READ MORE »Same-Sex Marriage Amendment
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/12/senate.marriage/index.html I just love this part: “…that when it comes to conferring legal status on relationships, that is a matter left to states,” Lynne Cheney told CNN’s “Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer.” “Of course, what’s happened is we’re in a situation now where the ability of states to do that has been called into some [...]
READ MORE »Poker for the Mind, Dodgeball for the Body
Amateur Poker League Dodge-Ball League I started really getting into poker (Texas Hold’em) a year or so ago. My wife bought me a GREAT professional set of 11 gram laminated clay poker chips for Christmas. I’ve been playing on pokerroom.com for a year, but just started playing it semi-regularly in person with real people at [...]
READ MORE »Under Pressure to Bleep
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/12/television.pbs.reut/index.html I really like the comment regarding how the movie is required to bleep a certain word VP Dick Cheney unapologetically used on the Senate floor. If the show were on right after Sesame Street or something, OK. But we’re talking about a show intended for adults, on a time slot intended for adults, on [...]
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