January LOL! A brush with greatness A bunch of deviated preverts February Miserable cities. SCAM Is this Kenneth Parcell? Look who is into teabagging March Will the stupidity ever end? Is Chuck Norris a traitor? My irony meter just broke April Another sign of the times WANT Is Todd Akin a Teabagger? Bill O’Reilly is [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2009
Putting things into perspective
Terrorism Still Less Deadly in US Than Lack of Health Insurance, Salmonella Worrying about terrorism isn’t something that keeps me up at night…
Woman caught anthrax from drums
Anthrax Found In Drums Linked To Infected Woman US health officials have confirmed samples from a pair of African drums used in a drumming circle attended by a New Hampshire woman who is severely ill in hospital with gastrointestinal anthrax have tested positive for the deadly bacterium. The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human [...]
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Even More Newtonian Swag
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space – Eugene Cernan & Don Davis Greatest Hit (…and 21 other pretty cool songs) – Dream Theater Liquid Tension Experiment – Liquid Tension Experiment Futurama: Bender’s Game Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
Why December 25th?
Why Dec. 25th? Church settled on ‘Christ’s birth day’ centuries later By Joseph Kelly 12/13/2006 The gospel accounts of the Nativity (Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2) do not say what day Jesus was born. There were attempts to calculate the day, but by the third century Christians realized this was impossible. So they tried other ways [...]
Friday Random Ten: 2009-12-25
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | A Change Of Seasons | Dream Theater | A Change of Seasons | Metal |
| 2. | The Main Thing | Roxy Music | Avalon | Alternative & Punk |
| 3. | Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle And The Sleeper | Dream Theater | Images And Words | Metal |
| 4. | Searching For The Right Door/Spectrum | Billy Cobham | Spectrum | Jazz |
| 5. | 6:00 | Dream Theater | Awake | Metal |
| 6. | I’m All Alone | Monty Python’s Spamalot | Original Cast Recording | Soundtrack |
| 7. | Mercy Street | Peter Gabriel | So | Rock |
| 8. | Christmas Bells | Original Broadway Cast | Rent [Disc 1] | Soundtrack |
| 9. | Christmas With the Devil | Spinal Tap | This is Spinal Tap | Soundtrack |
| 10. | My Spanish Heart | Chick Corea | My Spanish Heart | Jazz |
So, shall I begin the Christmas story?
Absolutely, as long as it’s not that terribly depressing one about the chap who gets born on Christmas Day, shoots his mouth off about everything under the sun, and then comes a cropper with a couple of rum coves on top of a hill in Johnny Arab land. — from Black Adder’s Christmas Carol
Unclear on the Concept
Hanukkah Ham?
It’s a Philip K. Dick Christmas
Dr. Fun: 2004-12-15
