I’m in a mood

And when I’m in a mood I like to vent.  A little while ago I posted a collection of “intellectual” insults under the title “When insults had class”.  I saw the collection on a mailing list for graduates of my old college but versions of it have been circulating for years.
It really struck a chord [...]

May you live in interesting times

There is a proverb that goes “May you live in interesting times”.  Many people say this is actually more of a curse than a proverb.  The idea is that “interesting” means trouble.  Well, the blogging bot from the future has an opinion on that.

So these interesting times will definitely be challenging.  [...]

I swear I didn’t do this

I rarely do posts that are simply links to stories but I thought it was important in this case.  Given the number of times I’ve threatened murderous retribution on spammers, I thought it was important to point out that I didn’t do this.
I’ve heard that decent humans don’t celebrate the death of another human no [...]

One job I won’t be doing

I’ve mentioned a few times I’m leaving my current job soon.  I don’t know what my next job will be but I’ve come to the realisation that there are some jobs I can’t do.  It may surprise you to learn this, but there are some jobs that aren’t suited to people prone to explosive outbursts [...]

The truth about science video

Yesterday’s post was essentially my script for a YouTube video.  I wanted to do a response to a video done by one of my favourite YouTubers who goes by the user name of JustA11en.  In his video, Allen asked why so many anti-religion, pro-science people on YouTube were so aggressive and hateful.
Allen is a politically [...]

The truth about science

Science is built on faith. I mean that in both the good sense and the bad sense.
For me, “faith” in the good sense means scientists believe in their results and those who choose to believe in science trust that people smarter than us are doing their best to come up with objectively verifiable data. [...]

Ways you can tell I’m leaving my job #4

I tend to forget some of the social niceties because I’m not going to have to face these people for much longer.  You know how you usually suppress your annoyance when you’re at work?  Well, there was this one little incident the other day…

I hate stupid people

I used think that my problem was people.  Everywhere I go, always with the people!  People getting all up in my face.  People messing with my shit.  Life would be much more bearable without the people.
Then I saw the flaw in this theory.  Some of my best friends are people.  I do a fair approximation [...]

Finally, a Democratic sex scandal!

I don’t know about you, but after the astonishing parade of Republican sexual misadventures over the past year or so I’d been starting to think the Democrats were off their game.  But finally someone’s put the Democrats back in the sexual spotlight.
Matthew Barrett, a young Democratic state representative in Ohio was giving some high school [...]

Ways you can tell I’m leaving my job #3

I’m more likely to tell people what I think of them.
You may not believe this but at work I am generally of a sunny disposition (I’ve mentioned before that I’m a whistler).  But there’s always some jerk who thinks it’s their job to pass judgement on others.  They are fools because this is, of course, [...]