News Item – The BBC reported that nuclear physicists in the search for antimatter have had a major breakthrough. Scientists at the Switzerland/France CERN particle collider announced the successful capture of an anti-hydrogen atom for almost 16 minutes. Dr. Skeinman: Well, we’ve come close a few times before. Once we thought we’d captured one, but it […]
May 26, 2011
When it Comes To Apocalypse Predictions, Third Time’s The Charm
Well, well, well. You’re feeling pret-ty smug, aren’t you? I’ll be honest – so was I. “Rapture,” I said. “Feh. Wrong again! What a kook!” I was actually looking forward to hearing how Harold Camping, the religious bookmaker who predicted the end this last Saturday, would explain the failure to rapt. I had pretty even […]
May 17, 2011
Reflections on Attending The Annual UFO Festival
Every year there is a UFO festival in McMinnville, Oregon. McMinnville is the site of one of the only as yet non-debunked UFO photos (which makes it “bunked”?) taken by farmers Paul & Evelyn Trent in 1950, as well as being considered a cross-center for psychic activity… or something. So this year M and I […]
May 11, 2011
Won’t Someone Please Think of the Super-Rich Schlock-Vendors For Once?
Is it possible that Hollywood is simply one giant cry for help? That the only reason many of the films that get made do so is because there’s an industry wide attempt to get us to stop them? You know, like a kid who announces that he’s going to go hit the side of the […]
April 26, 2011
Operation: Dessert Storm
It will be a great day when schools have all the funding they need, and the military has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber. – popular bumper sticker. Excuse me, sir? Sir? Would you be interested in some shortbread? Lemon bar? The lemon bars are fresh, sir; why, private Doorn here […]
April 17, 2011
Tonight At 11: Could Reading Blogs Give You Small Pox???
Some years ago when I was living in Portland, there was a series of storms that led to flooding and a lot of property damage. In fact, the ceiling of my apartment collapsed. (conversation between my landlord and I at 2:30am – “There’s water coming through the ceiling!” “Can’t you put a bucket under it […]
April 14, 2011
Maybe they’ll put product placement in it?
I saw, earlier, a preview for a documentary coming out entitled American: The Life of Bill Hicks. If you are familiar with Bill Hicks, I would you’re your head has exploded a little. Maybe there’s something to the title I don’t know – maybe on his death bed he looked up and said, “When you […]
March 29, 2011
The Correct Answer is, Apparently, Unwaxed – Unless Your Teeth Are Close Together.
Went to the dentist yesterday for a check up. No cavities! *ting!* Going to the dentist is always a mixed bag for me because – as I’ve talked about before – I’m just a skosh freaky about my teeth, but as a result I take good care of them. So there’s the standard dread, because… […]
The Byronic Man 
June 11, 2011
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