News: November 2006

Talk About Blowing Things Out of Proportion

29 Nov 2006 at 11:17am <From the Personal Life and Web / Technology Departments> Recently, I've taken a liking to popular user-driven sites. Specifically, I've been participating (both actively and passively) in news sites digg.com and reddit.com, which are both sites that allow registered users to submit stories, articles,... read on »

Vending Machine From the Future

28 Nov 2006 at 1:01pm <From the Food & Drinking, Web / Technology and Work Departments> Yesterday, several employees in my office were in an outrage. The reason was not due to budget cuts, salary decreases, a fluttering of pink slips, auditors, nor benefit reduction. No, yesterday people were pissed because... read on »

Fat America

22 Nov 2006 at 2:28pm <From the Culture, Current Events and Food & Drinking Departments> As I have referenced in the past, I'm quite disgusted with the fact that the United States is the fattest country on Earth. However, disgust is one thing, while surprise is another. I'm not at... read on »

Will We Ever Be Racism-Free? I Doubt It.

21 Nov 2006 at 11:48am <From the Culture, Current Events and Morons Departments> I'm not really sure what point I'm trying to make with this post, if any. I guess I'm just still amazed at how much we (the citizens of the United States) still pretend that we're... read on »

How Not to Hate Your Car Buying Experience

13 Nov 2006 at 12:04pm <From the Culture and Personal Life Departments> I bought my first car, a used 1995 red Jeep Wrangler, in the summer of 1999. At the time, it had 50,000 miles on it, and I paid too much. Seven and a half years,... read on »

News Anchors at Their Best

10 Nov 2006 at 10:36am <From the Humor (take a joke) and Media Departments> Every once in a while I come across a link to a short video clip featuring a newscaster of some variety making some catastrophic mistake live on television, in front of thousands of people. I... read on »

My Contingency Plan for Saddam's Death Sentence

6 Nov 2006 at 2:47pm <From the Current Events, Humor (take a joke) and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> Okay so I've been thinking about this whole Saddam execution. First of all, I doubt it will happen. Since Iraq is now the country that all other countries feel they should have control over, thanks... read on »

The Halloween Grinch

1 Nov 2006 at 2:16pm <From the Culture and Cynicism / Rants Departments> Well, yesterday was Halloween. Throughout the two weeks leading up to yesterday, I dreaded October 31st. I'm not an outgoing socialite by any means, and the thought of handing candy to children while pretending to... read on »