The lie that ate Manhattan
So, say you write a book – your autobiography, detailing your triumph over gang membership, physical abuse, drugs, and basically a future with no hope. Then the book hits the New York Times Bestseller List. Your literary agent secures a national tour. Sales go through the roof. You’re on your way to achieving what many [...]
You went and got me started.
(Thanks, Mave, for getting me all riled up.) Some things just ain’t fair. Take, for instance, our government. Constitution? Feh! Check this, homey… The US government allows the open and unrestricted sale of alcohol (to anybody over the age of 21), despite the fact that in 2007, likkered up drivers caused more fatal accidents in [...]
Do NOT go here…
…unless you want to be late for work or school, or kept from what you’re supposed to be doing for the next 3 hours. I’m not kidding. You’ll read and read and read until you’ve lost track of time as you know it. Ok…but don’t say I didn’t warn you.* Did you know Richard Jeni [...]
No joy for the tomato guys
Poor Jason Buzi. You try to do a nice thing, and what happens? Two hundred addicts and thugs descend upon you, beat you down, and steal all the prizes you were going to give away. In celebration of Leap Year, cashtomato.com (a YouTube wannabe) decided to give away boxes of tomatoes – each containing $29 [...]
Brilliant man, sad story.
Yesterday, I noticed one of my students carrying around a book on Nikola Tesla. I’d read about him many times in the past, and got to thinking how few of us know how amazing he really was. Wireless communication? Tesla thought of it – in 1914. AC electric current? You guessed it (Edison gets the [...]