Like Midas, I recently ventured to my local multiplex to check out Al Gore’s lesson in effective presentation skills: An Inconvenient Truth. Now, being the skeptical sort of guy that I am, I naturally started looking for movies that show the other side of the story. Fortunately, I found two! “Is carbon dioxide a harmful [...]
The Ninth Circuit Appeals court ruled that border officials have the right to search your laptop without a warrant. As Ars Technica points out, this is not an especially radical ruling, although it sure feels crappy. They can already rummage through your luggage without a warrant. Yet there is definitely a difference between searching through [...]
I’d like to direct everyone to the soon-to-be newest member of our family’s blog. Our family rocks so hard. Also, family, are we the “William’s Family?” I always get confused.
Or “blue cheese” as you commoners may know it. I love it and its deliciously bacterial veins of sweet seafoamy green goodness. The idea behind blue cheese is pretty astounding when you really sit and think about it. First you take any old goat or cow cheese and add mold and bacteria — specifically the [...]
In a bold step to create news, garner page views, and cash in on that elusive ad money haduken brings you the first of (hopefully) many interviews. Today’s subject: Pete Humes. Pete currently works for the RTD in charge of their new alternative weekly and used to work on Punchline. I asked him if he [...]
Not really. Full story here. These will be the standard passport starting in August. I knew they were on the horizon, I just didn’t realize they were so close. I think wrapping your new passport in aluminum foil would be an ok precaution against identity theft? Midas would probably know better than me. Anyway, get [...]
We all remember the recent Governor’s race in Virginia. We remember how Kilgore warned us about how Kaine would love to have saved Hitler from defeat in World War II. How if, given the chance, he would gladly have pardoned perhaps the most evil man in history from the death penalty. Well, now all of [...]
Ok. For the past month I’ve been getting calls about twice a week from a number not in my phone book, and every time I send it straight to voicemail. I don’t answer my phone if I don’t recognize the number; I figure if it is important they’ll leave a message. Well this guy never [...]
Yesterday I watched the world cup yesterday. A pretty good match except for some insanity at the end. I mean I don’t know a whole lot about soccer, but I do know that I would be super pissed if I were Zidane’s teammates. To play a man down going into PK’s *without* your great PK’er [...]
So America had its birthday as previously noted by Nic. 230 is pretty old, but she is still a majestic lady, far too young to die as someone once said. As per Catrow family tradition typically the wife and I head out to the south side to sup with the Midas family. Unfortunately this time [...]
I think it might do the nation well if we all read over some founding documents once a year. The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to [...]