A Wandering Eyre

This post could also be titled: How much I wish listservs would rot in hell and I finally took out my hate in a public manner on a listserv this morning. I have two grumps about listservs recently, each occurring on different lists: Grump #1 – If you are having a conversation that has gotten [...]

And the DOPA insanity continues on a state level in Illinois as State Sen. Matt Murphy willfully misunderstands exactly how the Internet works. He has introduced a bill called the Social Networking Website Prohibition Act. Hey, remember that one time we had something with “prohibition” in the title and it turned out that it was [...]

I am having one of those days where it appears that some people are just completely, past the ability to medicate, insane. I worry about the viability of humans as a species. At this rate, we deserve to be outlived by cockroaches. –Jane, please save me p.s. and first can I please be delivered of [...]

As a purveyor of information, I think I have developed a habit that my friends and relatives may perceive as bitchy. Whenever I receive a forward in my inbox about some kid dying with cancer or (just today) 23,000 UPS uniforms missing and believed to be stolen by terrorists, I have to check the story [...]

A friend sent me this story from the Conroe Courier, a paper from the North Houston area near where I grew up. It tickles the irony bone immensely when people try to ban Fahrenheit 451. Seriously people. Do you not realize the farce you start by opening that conversation? Do you? No, because you probably [...]

Seriously Apple. Are you kidding? In the future, I would like everyone to stop using the word awesome because I would not want anyone else to be associated with a word that obviously only defines me. (Thank you LiB for the link) –Jane, it is all about ME

There has been some hub bub over at Forbes magazine. You can read about it here, here, and here. I, like Walt, will not give them link love for this kind of shit. It is drivel like this that makes me want to sputter incoherent words and wonder why I even try. The other problem [...]

Ok, there are two things I want to comment on this morning. One has been in the news here in Texas, and elsewhere, for about a week: The Texas Board of Education, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that High School kids should only learn about abstinence. They have adopted a set of health textbooks [...]