I’ve posted earlier about whether words like “fuck” should be allowed on TV. I won’t repost that one, but I will note that the Second Circuit seems to be reading weeklyrob, because they ruled as I would against the FCC. Meanwhile, The Week magazine has just violated my two strike rule, and I’ll be canceling […]
A Secret
Being in the middle of a good book is like having a secret. I occasionally look up from it, notice the people around me, and realize that they’re not happily lost in this other world the way that I am. Especially if the book isn’t a popular one. I’m sure that I’d feel this way […]
Blent
I’m reading Middlemarch, by Ms. George Eliot. I say “Ms.” to avoid the bad sit-com conversation about “George” being a man. You know what I mean: A: “Do you enjoy the works of George Eliot?” B: “Oh yeah, I read his stuff all the time. Can’t get enough.” A: “But. But. But, George Eliot was […]
Battle of the Century
My friend Stan points me to this slick little video about an animator’s battle against his own drawing.
Killers
My last post was about how we rearrange atoms to make what we want. But that reminded me about a frequent thought I have about how we’re all killers. Here’s how I look at it: The sun is a burning mass radiating energy. That energy comes to the rock known as earth. Some arrangements of […]
Atoms
Just generally musing about how humans haven’t actually added any atoms to the planet. All the plastic, all the emissions, all the disposable diapers, all the steel, the wreckage, the garbage, the skyscrapers, the concrete, glass, photo paper, book bindings, vinyl, paint, light bulb filaments, are made of stuff that was already here. And also […]
The Opposite of Right
Is left. Or wrong. Does that mean that left = wrong? My wife received a call on the way home from a party, then told me about it: “He asked whether I’d left the party, because he’d left his scarf. I said I’d find out if anyone was left there.” Left = “departed,” then “didn’t […]
Fahrenheit 451: All about the Boob Tube
In case you thought that Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was about bookburning and censorship (you know, since it has all the bookburning and censorship in it), you’d apparently be wrong. He says that it was about TV. It was about his hatred of large-screen TVs, factiods over the news instead of real news, shallow TV knowledge […]
Steve! I Don't Think You're Spam!
I get a ton of spam comments to this blog. I don’t know why. I don’t get very many real comments, but somehow the spammers hit me with about 80 a week. So I have moderation set. If you’ve commented before, then you can comment again without having to wait for moderation. But if you […]
Now Open
The Creation Museum. If you don’t want to subscribe for free to the New York Times online, you can read about it here, here, here, etc. One thing that seems to be missing from all these “reviews” and news articles is any sense of outrage or contempt. There’s no good reason that a publication of […]