February 25th, 2008
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
- Patrick Henry, 1775
“Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive*.”
- Mitt Romney, 2008
*Please note: It’s not even “to stay alive,” but rather “to be kept alive.” There’s a scary double-entendre for you.
February 15th, 2008
http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/hook.accidents.display.2.650699.html
Give me a fucking break, people. Are we going to begin a worldwide crusade against all sharp objects? Hold your kid’s hand in the store for fuck’s sake.
Assholes.
February 14th, 2008
Today I came across the Wikipedia entry for “eggcorn,” a recently-coined linguistic term that describes one of my ultimate pet peaves. I know I should be forgiving, but to my mind few things make a person seem stupid than the use of a term they have mis-heard or misunderstood, an “eggcorn.”
A few examples:
“For all [...]
February 11th, 2008
Polaroid has announced that it is getting out of the instant-photo business.
I’ve always believed that the only reason so many people invested in the small, expensive, terrible-looking instant photos that are the product of Polaroid cameras is because they want to avoid the embarrassment (or potential legal ramifications) of bringing their amateur porn to the [...]
February 11th, 2008
This is the second time I’ve seen an article that supposes a link between diet soda and “metabolic syndrome” (basically another name for all the bad stuff that happens to you — diabetes, heart disease, etc — when you’re fat) and it pisses me off. The way these surveys are done is basically to take [...]
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