Archive for May, 2010

Burma, Liberia, and the United States

Monday, May 17th, 2010

What do these three countries have in common? Give up? They’re the only three countries in the world who don’t use the metric system.  I knew that there weren’t that many countries that didn’t use the metric system, but I didn’t realize that it was only three.  Kind of makes us look a little egocentric, [...]

Elena Kagan is the Wrong Choice For Supreme Court Justice

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

When I read that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was going to retire, I thought, “I hope President Obama nominates someone decently liberal to succeed him.” There’s been a short list of legitimate, potential nominees floating around ever since Sonia Sotomayor replaced David Souter. You’d think that if you were on the list back [...]

Dear Bob Allen Ford

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Thank you for wasting my fucking time.  Really.  It’s not like I have shit to do. I’ve been having problems with the Sync system in my 2010 Ford Escape that I bought last August (I think August anyways).  Everything was fine initially, then a few months ago when I pressed the phone button on either [...]

An Interesting Statistic

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

So I’m watching the documentary Bigger Stronger Faster* which is a movie about steroids.  Pretty good so far.  Anyways, the movie starts talking about steroids in baseball – remember Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds? I do.  After they hit all those home runs they were accused of taking steroids – which was pretty [...]

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