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When people are too irrational to bother arguing with, there are a few strategies that can be used. PZ Myers is a proponent of ridicule, and that seems to be fairly effective in many cases. However, if no intervention is required in order to prevent harm to third parties, I prefer to go with the [...]

Midnight is a pretty silly concept. Personally, I would choose to change the date at dawn. But if you’re going to have the calendar flip at midnight, at least make it the proper solar midnight. The whole calendar and time system on this planet is batshit. Whatever. My point is this: I consider birthdays to [...]

Thinking yourself “lucky” is to deny credit for success. Thinking yourself “unlucky” is to deny responsibility for failure. Big duh right there. Common sense. Of course, I don’t believe in common sense, either. I readily admit that much of my “common sense” comes from good ol’ book learnin’. Whatever I know about luck probably comes [...]

Reduce, re-use, and recycle. But watch out when it comes to reusing shopping bags to carry your pumps while you commute to work in your New Balance sneakers. It’s important to coordinate. Not every bag goes well with your North Face jacket. Here are a few different sorts of bags, listed from lowest to highest [...]

Most of the people I associate with online and off are college students, college dropouts, freelancers, or artists of various sorts. I fall into several of those categories, myself. None of us have a lot of much any money, so it is absolutely necessary to economize. Sometimes this means buying the cheapest available products. Buying [...]

No Change For You: AMC Theaters “Doesn’t Carry Nickels?” – Consumerist Apparently, AMC doesn’t carry nickels (uh, duh, see the headline above). Presumably, then, they don’t carry pennies, either. And why should they? When a teensy tray of nachos costs $8, and you’re already being ripped off (fer fuck’s sake — maybe get rid of [...]

My internet connection sucks, and throws me offline a number of times a day. Just because you see me come “online” on any IM service (especially Yahoo, since it never preserves my away status), it doesn’t mean I’m now sitting in front of my machine, waiting eagerly to talk to you. If you’ll notice, I’m [...]

Canadians like the Canadian government/country/lifestyle/whateverthefuck better. Americans like the American government/country/lifestyle/whateverthefuck better. At least, the majority of them do. Blee blah bloo. Guess why. Democracy. Shut your asses. Both countries function (more or less, bleah — both democracies have issues, but they’re not like, OMFG we’re doomed, there is nothing we can do about this, [...]

Hey, creepy stalker types! Just thought you might be interested in creepily stalking my sister as well! You can find here her here, apparently. Indeed. Also, here is some completely unrelated advice: if you’ve been using nasal spray, and your sinuses are therefore painfully dry (instead of painfully clogged), do not bleach your hair, or [...]

Rhymes with pique. Neither one of them rhymes with dick.