We live in a time of obsessive safety. Every item for sale in this great land is scrutinized from front to back, top to bottom, for any possible injury causing attribute. Designers rework their products endlessly attempting to prevent even the most advanced ignoramus from successfully modifying their product into an efficient eye removal tool. [...]
August 22, 2009
The Times relayed to us this week the tale of new findings from space nonsense. NASA scientists, apparently having nothing better to do with their barrels of taxpayer money, decided to run a spectacularly expensive flying object into the debris of a comet. This sort of tomfoolery, most resembling a horde of teenagers driving too [...]
August 18, 2009
As you are probably well aware this marks the fortieth anniversary of the Woodstock music festival. Half a million petulant children, schedules clear of any worthwhile engagements, stormed a quiet, upstate New York farm, senses of entitlement expanding wildly until the sun was concealed from view, bringing a storm. Before the four days were through, [...]
August 12, 2009
A terrible scourge has infected our mechanical design culture. Its name is tool-less fastening. One will find the droppings of this is the craze emblazoned in advertisements promoting electronic componentry. It has even more recently spread its emasculating tentacles to the manly mechanical fields. Its idea is simple, even seductive upon shallow inspection. It is [...]
July 31, 2009
Overblown story of the week. So, an old lady beat a fawn to death with a shovel. She did this either because she was frightened (her story) or it was eating her flowers (her nosy neighbor’s story). She is in trouble because, for some reason, it is illegal to kill animals in your yard. Another great [...]
July 25, 2009
While the Gaia-über-alles set screams for a carbon tax, they miss the largest cost to society. Simply put the cost of photographic technology is too low. Now any derelict finding himself in the odd situation of not having spent all his ready cash on corn-syruped food items and methamphetamine, runs to the local emporium for [...]
July 5, 2009
In the picture you can see all you need to know about current world events. Note the shoe choice of the Mullah’s favorite scare-puppet Achimanutjob. See their lack of sanity intensifying laces? Let this be a warning to all of you who believe that you can frolic about with unrestrained footwear. If you continue in this [...]
June 22, 2009
Today’s above-the-fold News-Herald story was about the topic that is on everyone’s mind: the recorder’s office paperwork. Yes, I know, you’ve heard about this at every turn but this is important. Obama got so caught up in the topic last week he even forgot to mention some small happenings of no importance in a far [...]
August 29, 2009