Archive for the 'Soapbox' Category

Colin Powell sums it up in 7 minutes

October 19, 2008

I think Colin Powell sums up my feelings pretty well in 7 minutes.  Okay, so 7 minutes isn’t much of a summary, but he does a good job anyway. 
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/powell-obama-en.html

Are these the same Catholics I used to know?

September 17, 2008

It took the Catholic church about 300+ years or so to officially acknowledge Galileo was right about the Earth not being the center of the universe. I guess the Catholic church is stepping up that science timetable by only taking 150 years this time to do the same for Darwin.   (Check [...]

Indiana helps prove Daylight Saving Time should actually be called Waste of Time and Money

March 8, 2008

I found an article the other day about an interesting opportunity that Indiana provided to some researchers who wanted to study the energy savings of Daylight Saving Time. It looks like Indiana is helping to prove that Daylight Saving Time actually wastes energy instead of saving it. As the article says, while we do save [...]

One more reason to support McCain and Obama

February 2, 2008

According to this post on CNN, apparently Ann Coulter would be willing to support Hillary Clinton if John McCain is the Republican nominee. I could probably write quite a bit about Ann Coulter’s complete lack of sanity, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be anything that somebody else hasn’t already said. Besides, her own [...]

My Nemesis: The Penny

November 18, 2007

I really, really don’t like pennies. As I was cleaning the house this morning, I came up with a few handfuls of them. I did what I always do with those unwanted metal demons that possess my pockets with their annoying jingle – I threw them in the jar on my dresser with their [...]