“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding”

Pink slime is in the news and no, I’m not talking about The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure, again. This slime is literal rather than metaphorical. ABC News ran a story on the amount of “filler” used in hamburger meat. According to the story, this slime is: beef trimmings. Once only used in [...]

A Great Day for Freedom

Your movements are being watched and noted. And so are mine. Paranoia? Hardly. I have long been against “helpful” systems such as ADT, OnStar, and SPOT devices simply because they are nothing more than a means to track people’s movements. Oh, they do a great job in advertising how safe and convenient their products are, [...]

Astronomy Domine

Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum held a press conference from his location aboard the International Space Station. Listening to this dude is just an awesome experience. He makes you realize what is going on with our space exploration program and does so in a manner that makes sense. NASA needs to keep this guy and [...]

Coming Back To Life

The Mountain Ridge Paranormal Research Society has sponsored a haunted house in order to raise money for a hospital. Their theme is of an asylum haunting and the scene is at a former psychiatric hospital. Sounds like fun, right? Enter the party-poopers. Yep, these Radford University students are protesting the exhibition because it is “disrespectful [...]

Mother

I’ve read scientific articles that confirm one of humankind’s worst fears: global warming (or the newer term climate change) is happening and happening right now! “Here’s our scientific study to prove it!” the articles warn. I’ve also read studies contradicting that conclusion to posit one of their own. Articles that say the global warming panic [...]

Embryo

Bank of America has caused a shit storm in the general populace by charging a $5.00 fee for debit card use. This monthly fee would cost people at least $60.00 a year to spend their own money. That’s right. Paying to spend your own money. Double that if you have a spouse or partner with [...]

Comfortably Numb

Magic Mushrooms May Lead to More Open-Mindedness – ABC News. Yep, it’s true. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine conducted a study on psilocybin mushrooms. The results are the same many other researchers have been finding. There are incredible medical benefits to using conscious-altering substances. This shouldn’t be news and really should come as no surprise [...]

The Show Must Go On

In California, a group of folks decided to hold a demonstration outside a venue where Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was speaking. In “Flash Mob” style, several dozen people sang and danced to Madonna’s Like a Prayer. I’ve already stated elsewhere that I would not be speaking seriously about politics here. There really is no point. However, I [...]

Money

I doubt I’ll talk seriously about politics here. There really is little of value to talk about once you’ve pulled the curtain aside and looked closely at what lay behind. I think we all have a general notion of how our system of electing representatives to government positions should be conducted. How we, as a [...]

In the Flesh?

I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A decent place much like any other state (although we’re not technically a state) that has its good qualities and bad qualities. I’ve lived in other states as well but none have had a more interesting flag than Virginia. It isn’t so much the flag itself that is [...]