Archive of entries posted on 18th February 2014

Link of the Day: Art – Someone to Watch Over Me

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[High Praise! to 4of7 of Little Worlds]

The “Idea” of Angels

If you know someone in need of comfort, this might be a good link to pass along.

Also – and this is very important – he’s got a rough draft of his “Musey” award (which is looking WAY awesome), and he’s looking for your feedback on how to polish it off. Go advise.

Also, also – 4of7 has put a couple pieces of his on eBay (links at the link above)

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Wisdom of the Day: Love Robbery Ground Phone Jetsons Kindle Comedy Explosion Hoth Candy

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Obama Warned Us – DC Living

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Washington is a beautiful city. It’s very nice ‘living above the store’; you can’t beat the commute. It’s just sometimes all you hear in Washington is the clamor of politics. And all that noise can drown out the voices of the people who sent you there.

BARACK OBAMA, remarks at University of Michigan, May 1, 2010

“Which makes it a lot easier for me to get stuff done.”

Random Thoughts: Hillary, Cats, and Presidents Day

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Hillary Clinton is a horrible person and an awful choice for president, and any news source not reporting that is bad at journalism.

Point of Order: Roses can be many different colors. Violets are violet (like oranges are orange). And that’s lust, not love, you’re feeling.

Got my wife a new Kindle Fire for Valentine’s Day. Not very romantic, but it is HD. That seems more important.

How about instead of gender, we just ask what sex chromosomes you have and leave it there.

“What if sociopaths were fluffier?” -inventor of cats

I forget; did we ever end the government shutdown? How about the sequester?

For half the cost of what it took to get us to the moon, the US can train a gold medal curling team. #MakeItHappen

Poor John Shuster. He’s been doing some great curling; it’s just not showing up as wins for some reason.

Saw Frozen; pretty tragic. One of the princesses becomes queen, thus disqualifying her from the Disney princess line.

And in one of the songs in Frozen, there’s a joke stolen from Arrested Development.

I got the day off for Presidents Day but I didn’t know how to celebrate it other than to offer a sale on cars.

We celebrate the president’s birthday on Presidents Day, right? But do we celebrate the pretend Hawaiian one or the Kenyan one?

I wasn’t talking about Obama; I was talking about Lincoln.

Was there a Gobot named Vincent who transformed into a van, i.e., Vincent van Gobot? If not, no wonder they were a poor man’s Transformers.

Finally started House of Cards season 2. There was at least one twist I did not seem coming in the first episode.

Stupid people

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DoNotDrinkPeople are stupid.

No, not every person is stupid. I’m not. You’re not. But if you’re at work or school or some other place around a bunch of other folks, look around. A lot of the people you’re looking at are stupid. And, some of your relatives? They’re stupid too. I know some of mine are.

How stupid are people?

Well, according to a survey conducted by the National Science Foundation, around one in four Americans don’t think the Earth revolves around the Sun. Okay, you know and I know that actually, they both revolve around the barycenter of the Sun-Earth pair. But, that point is practically the center of the Sun. So, yeah, for all practical purposes, the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Of course, if you look a little deeper at the survey results, you’ll see this:

Generally, U.S. residents showed a knowledge of science comparable to those of other countries with high levels of education, including Japan, the European Union and South Korea, the NSF said. In fact, they did better than EU residents on the question about whether Earth moves around the sun.

That’s not good news for America, though. It’s simply bad news for the rest of the world. The rest of the world has stupid people in it, too.

But, I don’t really care much that other countries have stupid people. They have kings and prime ministers and want the government to take care of them because they’re incompetent, and stupid to boot.

What bothers me is that we have so many stupid people in the U.S. But we do. Having a hard time believing that? Well, consider that Americans voted for Barack Obama. Twice. The stupid is strong in this country.