So I got called in for jury duty. Actually, that happened back in August, but I was going to be away during the time I was supposed to go in so I put it off until early November. I called last night, to see if I had to appear and I had to, so early this morning, I drove off to the Superior Court for what was ultimately a giant waste of my time.
Here’s why. Continue reading Jury Duty is a Waste
Just another quick one, as I ran across it, but there are some people, quite a few in my opinion, who just have no business being in charge of anything. Ever. This is especially true of online public forums. We’ll get into the details below the fold, but if you can’t keep your personal opinions out of your moderation, sod off. Continue reading Some People Shouldn’t Be In Charge
This is just a really quick one, I saw this video of Arnold Schwarzenegger being interviewed on Howard Stern and, as many problems as I’ve had with Arnie over the years, he at least knows what the hell he’s talking about here.
Enjoy.
I ran into a thread on Reddit today, where they were talking about atheists who are conservative, because they couldn’t imagine how anyone who was intelligent, educated and non-religious could identify that way.
Well, once upon a time, I identified that way, at least in a limited fashion, so I read through it and found that it was mostly people who were talking out of their own asses.
Somehow, that is not at all surprising. Continue reading Why It’s Pointless to Argue Politics
This is more of a rant, so if you don’t like that kind of thing, feel free to click away now. I won’t be mad.
However, I’ve been seeing a ton of this lately and I am ever so sick of it. I mean YouTube channels who exist only to explain why they hate absolutely everything that they do, yet they keep on doing it. It’s rage-bait for the sake of rage-bait.
Holy crap, assholes, you can just stop! Continue reading Stupid YouTube Channels
I’ve noticed this a lot lately, and I’m sure it’s been going on for a while, but people will get online, say “I just bought this thing for this amount of money, how did I do?”
Isn’t that a question you should have asked before you spent the money? I mean, are you really that dumb?
Sadly, the answer is almost always yes. Continue reading When Did People Get This Stupid?
Alright, I’m officially tired of this. Companies today are just idiotic. I have a couple of prescriptions with a local pharmacist and I have been getting endlessly harassed because they want to make more money.
So anyhow, this kind of devolved on Reddit, where there was a thread where someone made some claims that atheists were all the same and you could tell a lot of things about atheists, simply because we all had the same “atheist worldview”.
I know I ask that question a lot, but it never seems to get any better! When did the entire human species become knuckle-dragging morons, especially modern young people?
Because I’m getting sick and tired of it. Continue reading What in the Hell is Wrong with People?
There is one problem that the religious almost always seem to have and that is “everyone is just like I am!” We have a lot of discussions, but almost no theist can ever get past that stumbling block.
I’m in the middle of a discussion with a theist, who thinks they are defending God, but only by starting with all of the standard assumptions that Christians have, that God is real and has all of the characteristics that traditional Christianity, in this case, Catholicism, says that he does.
Sorry, you’re going to have to walk us through all of the steps to prove that. I don’t think the theist is going to do well. Continue reading The Fundamental Disconnect