Don’t have a seizure in Chicago!

Or you might get tased.
Personally I intend only to travel to Chicago with my own personal staff of bodyguard, detective, and physician with complete mobile emergency room.  I’ll bring along a Canadian consular official as well, because apparently accidentally hitting a cop while you have a diabetic seizure is grounds for being tased ELEVEN F*CKING [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 37: Happy Thanksgiving, America!

As a gift I give you a dictionary.
In this episode:
- Socialism? Really?
- The one thing I have in common with Glen Beck: I love America, and I fear for her, because something is *not* connecting here.
- That is not socialism. That is Gilded Age robber baron capitalism with some protection for the proletariat. [...]

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Totally *not* feeding the trolls

This is why I don’t have a “Recent Comments” sidebar on here.
(Scroll down for the new comments.)
As much as I enjoy a good blog war (hell, it’s why I read scienceblogs.com), I don’t like encouraging this kind of moronicity. It started out fun. Now it’s just depressing.
I like my blog and my modest [...]

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Dear Josh: Or more signs that you might be a troll

Though I should probably break this blog silence by writing about the move (rainy but OK), the house (awesome!) or the phone/internet situation (bloody frustrating), this is too awesome to ignore. It’s almost as good as the time I got plagiarized.
But first, a couple more helpful signs that may tell you if you’re a [...]

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