Pointless discussions. Hot beverages.

Sat 12 February 2005

12:12 PM PST

Zeitgeist 050212

I believe in anti-valentine's activities, but mass suicide is really going too far.

Pacet requiem Arthur Miller.

Surgeons are giving this little mermaid regular legs. And I certainly hope her every step isn't like stepping on knives.

The Florida alternative to abortion: throwing the baby out the window of a car. No -- wait -- I mean lying about throwing the baby out the window of a car.

It's too easy to hoax the media these days.

First they find that you actually grow new brain cells well into adulthood. Now it loks like you can grow new heart cells as well. And yet, you can literally die of a broken heart.

I've only been inside a wal-mart once, to throw up in their bathroom. and that's still pretty much the only thing I'd do there.

Two things. One, tell your religious relatives who still support Bush that he is actually a Moonie. And two, I think it's very clear why the Moonies want people to take down their crosses. Because they are all vampires! Duh!

Goldberg says his judgment is superior to mine. But I said Iraq was not a danger to the US. I ridiculed Colin Powell's UN performance. Goldberg said Iraq was near to having nukes. Whose judgment was superior?

Yup. It's fun to shoot people. If you're a SOCIOPATH.

Four year olds -- only slightly worse at driving than 16 year olds...

I risk being called a liar, but I ran into this weird site recently. It claims that America is "Babylon the Great" of Revelation and the end times are upon us and Jerry Falwell is an instrument of evil, but in tone it's very similar to right wing Christian sites -- a general sense of overwrought hysteria, lots of underlining, general preachiness, and a bewildering number of Biblical quotes. For a while I wondered if it was a parody site, but they seem sincere. And, as I said, a little hysterical. But not exactly wrong.

Sun 06 February 2005

12:12 PM PST

Zeitgeist 050602

Pretty long zeitgeist this time -- I've been saving 'em up for a while. This story about an Australian woman convicted of smuggling marijuana into Bali hits home partly because I've actually been there. So the US isn't the only country with insanely punitive drug laws. 20 years in prison for 9 pounds of weed? Ridiculous.

And now they want to ban long, pointy kitchen knives in England. Because, in a country where guns are hard to come by, knives are the most common murder weapon.

The joke is dead. Long live the joke. In fact, if you read the story and bring it up while talking with friends, it will inevitably lead to a round of joke-telling.

Poor devils (Tasmanian).

Not only did most of us fail to anticipate the way video phone technology would really catch on, they failed to anticipate the problems it would cause...

"It could break a story like Watergate -- but it no longer has the credibility."

"The media?"

"The truth." More Daily Show goodness.

Cool people who are dead, including great studier of fossils Mary Anning.

When even US News and World Report thinks something's wrong with the new bankruptcy bill you know it's time to worry.

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