I'm nearing my own birthday in a few days (the dreaded dirty thirty), but today, February 12th, is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution through natural selection is easily one of the greatest discoveries in the history of huma… more »

Happy Buy Nothing Day (aka Black Friday aka Trample Store Employees to Death Just to Save a Few @#$%ing Bucks Day). People did not stop to help the employee as he lay on the ground, and they pushed against other Wal-Mart workers who were trying to ai… more »

I've been having car trouble recently so my '92 Ford Taurus is spending tonight at an auto shop. Hopefully the news won't be too bad / expensive when they call me in the morning to tell me what's wrong with it. I also hope they'll be able to fix it befo… more »

Shahab and Emily have a new dog named Marzipan (after the homestarrunner character). She's a chihuahua / yorkshire terrier mix, aka a "chorkie" (or as Shahab and Emily like to call her, a "yo-huahua"). Here's Marzipan wearing her favorite "Obama girl… more »

Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone magazine wrote an incredibly in-depth profile of John McCain: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain Dickinson quotes people close to McCain, and many times McCain hims… more »

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I love playing my Nintendo DS Lite in the bathroom (pre-wipe of course) and it’s something I look forward to each day, especially at work because it’s really the only private alone time I get at work. Last night I was at work late at Starz Animation… more »

Dennis Kucinich during Las Vegas Democratic Debate: "YOU DON'T WAIT! IMPEACH THEM NOW!!!" [video:youtube:gGwwovW_t4s] more »

[video:youtube:yJYbgouqlMw] Kucinich Moves for Cheney Impeachment more »

I usually don't blog about hoax emails, but since I haven't blogged much about anything recently, and cuz I spent a decent amount of time researching and replying to the hoax email, I decided to post my response with a little bit of extra commentary.… more »