Wow, so much time, so little done. That’s all I’m going to say about that! What can I say? I mean, I started writing this big ol’ ball o’ nothin’ way back in 2001. Back then, only weirdos were blogin’ and back then it was “E/N” (Everything/Nothing). Perhaps in such a small circle, that’s how [...]

Here in California on the November ballot there was Proposition  8. In it was the constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Thus the entire motivation for this amendment was to exclude homosexuals from the legal and emotional ceremony.  I had high hopes that people of California had finally arrived [...]

Somewhere around the third “song” I sort of saw the big picture. “What the hell am I doing?” And I answer back to myself, “This is fucking awesome!” By day I run a lab where we test software we developed making interactive television and video on demand possible. I’m a tech guy with a growing [...]

Some questions come to be asked because of relevance to your current situation. Sometimes questions get asked because assumptions are being challenged. But sometimes questions come from an unsettling feeling deep inside your mind down to the core of your body. I’m fully aware that the anxiety I feel more and more regularly could very [...]

Most people today were brought up with television advertising and the younger the person is the more pervasive the exposure. People accept the advertising as a fact of life and it is at a point where the vision it creates also sets a standard for individual happiness. Without even questioning it, people are buying a [...]

Was I born to sit in front of this computer? In some ways, yes. But asking the question implies a certain contempt for sitting in front of the computer. I look at everything I have done in my life; all the dysfunction and hardship of my childhood, leading into the teenage years of crushes and [...]

I found this on the web a long time ago, not sure where, and saved it. Have a read. It’s by Dennis Miller. For crying out loud, we live in a country where “the pursuit of happiness” is written into the Declaration of Independence. We live in the land of Happy Meals. Happy Meals. You [...]

Briefly, this is a quick little paper I wrote for a simple little class based on an excerpt of an article by a woman named Deborah Tannen (look her books up, they are very interesting) about public discussions of controversial topics being turned into battles by the media rather than discussions of all points. Eh, [...]

There goes the neighborhood! I’m sorry, Planet Earth. Four more years of the Bush clan to shit on the planet and blow off the populous and their ideas of a decent world. All well…[sigh] Not that I had much faith in Kerry, but Bush?! Jesus F-ing Christ! What’s with all those dumbasses in the “Red” [...]

The following is a speech given by Ralph Nader at Creighton University in August 2004 copied here without permision from IndyBay.org, the SF bay area division of IndyMedia.org. It is a good speech, typical of Nader, IMO of course, if not depressingly real. If you haven’t read my last post about Bush, check it out [...]