Maybe he’s mad there are no Star Wars movies on the list. I hear he is a big Jar Jar fan.

So are we not doing perjury anymore?

Final Space

Tripping the Rift

Bravest Warriors

What’s your favorite rock?

What is the strangest food you’ve ever tried?

What kind of nerd are you?

That’s a great way of putting it.

I would argue a community can decide their membership, but society is a collection of communities and cannot decide their membership. Otherwise you end up with theocracies and/or racial supremacist states.

I think immigration laws are inherently a violation of universal human rights. What is a more basic expression of freedom and liberty than being able to choose where in the world to build your life?

I think that the thing that made the protests for George Floyd and Covid policies so widespread was people were out of work. The capitalist system has done a very good job of binding us to our jobs. we need a change that will put large amounts of people on the streets with little to lose. An economic collapse might do it.

There was a theory a while back that Napoleon died from arsenic poisoning due to the damp Mediterranean climate causing the decay of a green wallpaper using an arsenic based dye. It didn’t end up being entirely true but he may have been slowly poised by environmental arsenic throughout his life. Here is an article about it.

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element in the Earth’s crust as metallic crystals or combined with other elements. Being a heavy metal, arsenic bioaccumulates. That is, it builds up in the body over time, so slow poisoning is possible.

On the optimistic side, I think it’s likely a gene treatment is developed that greatly extends the lives of dogs.

I worked security for a pro baseball stadium. Some guy and his teenage sons had front row season tickets behind home base. The boys were underage and openly drinking alcohol. We went to tell them the kids had to cut it out.

This guy (who was drunk too) throws a fit that we dared tell him what he could do. He starts shouting “do you know how much I pay for these tickets!? My sons can do whatever they want” blah blah blah.

I wave down the security head and he radios for the police to come deal with it. The man and his sons were marched out to boos from the crowd. They were ejected from the game and fined. They potentially lost their season ticket rights too, but I don’t know for sure. I never saw them again though.

The irony is that I only got that house because my parents divorced and I only got money because my dad was injured badly at work. His bad fortune was my good fortune. I would give it up in a heartbeat if it meant he didn’t have to go through that pain.

I’m not going to pretend I didn’t get an inheritance when my dad died. I got a little run down house in a farm town and the balance of a workers comp settlement. There’s a big difference between that and people inheriting enough that they never have to work a day in their lives.

Yeah, because their parents are dying and leaving their kids an inheritance.

God Thinks by Aurelio Voltaire

"God is a liberal, God is a democrat

God wants you to vote Republican

Never trust a man who puts his words in the mouth of God

And says it’s absolute truth

It’s lies and it smells like death

It’s all in a days work taking money from the poor

Why do you think that God

Would need your dirty money if you want to start a holy war?"

When I was in college the biology department got donated half of a lion for dissection by veterinary students. We got the back half. I feel like that said something significant about the quality of my education.

Myspace is still online.

A basic DNA test can tell you your ancestry back thousands of years and identify numerous genetically determined traits. It’s kinda crazy what kinds of things they can tell you about yourself.

Anything conducts electricity if there is enough of it.

The locked door told them the store is closed.