If you’ve never heard of it, there’s a “law” out there called Poe’s Law which states: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is uttrerly [sic] impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article. (link) Which brings us to today’s link. Props …
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More News Story Complaints
I was reading this story today about droughts in Texas. It caught my eye because the first line said “LUBBOCK, Texas” where I used to live. The fun part about this story is that there’s nothing even close to Lubbock in it! Most of the story focuses on the Hill Country and areas west of …
Dogs and Trash Companies
The items in the title are not linked. They are two things that piqued my interest in this morning’s daily news email from the AJC. One: They’re using dogs to chase geese away from the City of Atlanta water reservoirs. Cool. Two: Two trash-collection firms in Gwinnett county are shutting down due to the County …
Tour de Georgia Canceled
The 2009 Tour de Georgia, a multi-part cycling race akin to the Tour de France, has been canceled. It was apparently due to financial considerations. This is disappointing on a purely selfish level. Watching the race was a lot of fun. Hopefully it will be back in 2010. I want to go up and see …
No Worse Person to Lead
Governor Sarah Palin has got to be the recent political world’s biggest scam artist. She has certainly risen to her level of incompetence. For example, I present a quote, concerning the Federal Bailout and her opposition to…something about it (I’m not sure exactly what she’s opposing). Palin said that a “bigger federal government and more …
WizKids goes Kerplooey!
If you’re a fan of the Pirates trading card game, I recommend some thinking. WizKids has gone under. What this will mean for their various lines of products? Who knows. But I wouldn’t be willing to bet that any particular game system (like Pirates) will survive. So, you might want to go pick up some …
Newsweek. Campaigining. Obama
Doubtless this will be making the rounds, but Newsweek has the inside scoop on the campaigns of both candidates. I’ve only gotten through page one of the first item, but so far it is worth it.
Polling Location Demographics
In an exhaustive survey of one polling location, this intrepid researcher notes that the poll worker average age was about half what it was the last few times he voted. There was an honest-to-god teenager working the poll when I voted this morning. The person who checked my ID was about 30. The person who …
Hurricane Ike
If you’re not familiar with the Boston Globe’s Big Picture series of photo essays, you should be. I’d like to preface this post by saying that I in no way support or endorse the sarcastic nature of the next paragraph. Hurricane Ike did a lot of damage and killed a lot of people. It’s the …
Fay
People don’t pay attention to the weather outside their immediate vicinity unless it’s a catastrophic incident that makes national/international news. Thus we have Tropical Storm Fay, which isn’t bothering me personally at the moment but sure is causing headaches for my neighbors to the south (although I used to live in one of the flooded …