Sometimes I take a slice of bread and butter both sides. I then pick up the bread and eat it. After I’m done I notice how much butter is on my hands since I buttered both sides. The lesson? Spread double butter on one side so it tastes the same as the bread buttered on both sides. After that nugget of nonsensical wisdom, I give you this: US 13-year-olds are fairly conservative: Time poll WASHINGTON (AFP) - It might surprise their parents, but in the age of graphic lyrics and violent video games, American children entering their teens remain very cautious about sex and dating and still...

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy… If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws. — Edward Abbey . . . History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall. — Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1939 Ahh! The words of the outlaw...

I love strings. When I play my keyboard (Korg Triton for all you musician types), I love bringing up string sounds and laying track upon track of strings. So when I listen to Blue States, I’m in Muzak Heaven. Organic, electronic, mind-altering lovliness describes them to a tee. The first two albums Nothing Changes Under The Sun and Man Mountain just draw you in with their complexity and lushness. This isn’t new age, elevator music. Not even remotely close. You can’t even classify them. Jazz, pop, techno, downtempo, blues, etc. You name it, they have integrated it all...

All I wanna do is marry Condi Rice in the game and see her take a shower in-game. JOY! All that blurred out body and steam makes a man so lukewarm. The sheer cartoonish aspect of it all gives me 0.0000000000000371 degree (Celsius for world readers) rise in overall body temperature. Sims 2 content “worse than Hot Coffee” [UPDATE] Miami attorney Jack Thompson claims cheat codes make EA’s life sim a pedophile’s paradise by showing genitalia; calls for ban on T-rated game. How do you like your hot coffee? If you’re Jack Thompson, you like it scalding game publisher’s...

Look at the following picture very closely and see if you see anything wrong with it: Looks like a bunch of clean-cut young women posing with our fearless leader. But this America. The place where controversy is as common as McDonald’s. Ugh! Generational conflict at heart of flip-flop debate By Tim Whitmire / Associated Press Back and forth it goes with the tale of the Northwestern University women’s lacrosse players who wore flip-flops to meet the president. Flip: “Nobody was wearing old beach flip-flops,” said one of the players, who wore a rhinestone-bedecked, $16...

Why do we parents want our children to be the greatest at what they do? To be all that they can be? To acheive the greatest heights? What’s wrong with wanting our children to just be regular? Not forcing them to try to be the greatest. And just raising them to have some common sense at the very least? Do they have to go to college? Why can’t they just find a job and we parents accept that? Why? UPDATE! like recently… Methinks that we parents need to re-evaluate our thinking in this awesome, most splendid, cherry-flavored global economy. College and university tuition aren’t...

My first official work on the blog. So excuse some missing graphics on the sidebar as I spruce up some things. Things should be back to normal tomorrow.

Could it be true? That my goal to become the first American Dictator may happen? Maybe it is wishful thinking. Maybe I should just join one of the Big Two and be a partisan slappy fo’ life. But I’m too weird for the Big Two. Only by being a dictator could I be fully happy in politics (or being Secretary of Space Travel but that’s another story). Anyways I bet you are asking the following: What can be happening in American politics that will allow the rise of your dictatorship? The answer (I’m so jiggly with excitement): The are some Republicans seriously talking about...

I took my 7 and 6 year old daughters to see Fantastic Four today at the AMC Theaters. My girls loved it to death and couldn’t stop talking about it afterwards. Oh how I love the children and their ability to just enjoy a movie without overanalyzing it. I’ve been hearing critics just slam this movie. But I found that seeing it with my girls made me enjoy the movie on their level. I cannot tell a lie; I became 7 years old too. What an escape! We lovely and oh so mature adults with our sophisticated thinking just know it all, eh? Ahh screw that when I’m at the big screen for...

Ah yes! Chocolate almond cheesecake! Very very good. And it’s so good for you. Lots of vitamins and minerals. Loaded with tightly packed energy. Happy happy! Joy joy! Uh oh. Do I hear dissention among the ranks? High in fat? Sure. Loaded with sugar? Absolutely. To be avoided at all costs? Hmmm. See I got it all figured out. Much research I have done. And my findings are without argument. Wait until the diet warriors get a load of my findings. Without further ado, here is the outcome of my research (I can barely contain myself): I’ll just eat chocolate almond cheesecake...