Paul’s Movie Reviews: Gravity
The tag line on the poster says everything that needs to be said: “Don’t. Let. Go.”
Tuesday Bag o’ Plagiarism & Air-Mindedness
By now everyone has heard about Kentucky Senator Rand Paul plagiarizing the work of other writers in his speeches, books, and op-ed columns. The senator’s reaction to the story is evolving: it began with denial; morphed into attacks on Rachel Maddow, who first reported the story; now his staff is busy scrubbing stolen material from his […]
Monday Bag o’ Tricks
More and more, while surfing sites like Gawker — and even Facebook, where we’re supposedly interacting with friends — we’re tricked into clicking on reality videos with titillating titles. Oh, the videos are real enough, but the trick is we have to watch 15-second advertisements first. As much as I want to watch your dashcam […]
Halloween
It’s a happy bottom Halloween for me!
Tuesday Bag o’ Missed Connections
Today’s post title and accompanying bag photo is obscure, so I’d better explain it. Here’s what it says on the bag: Motorcycle Accident – m4w – 27 (Kings Hwy) [date/time] Reply to This Post I was on a motorcycle and we got into an accident this morning. I think you are really cute and I’m sorry […]
Sunday Bag o’ Bogus
Last week a few friends and some lefty bloggers I follow fell for a bogus article about Rush Limbaugh calling soldiers welfare queens who’ve gotten used to having everything handed to them. Hey, I fell for it too, because I’ve said again and again that at some point the Orcs* are going to turn against […]
Paul’s Book Reviews: Science Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult, Mystery
She is about to add, “I have scars, inside me,” but she stops herself. What is a scar, Oh Toby? That would be the next question. Then she’d have to explain what a scar is. A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a […]
Air-Minded: Thundercraft (2 Updates)
Scroll to the bottom of this post to see two updates added on 10/29/13 and 10/30/13. I originally planned to put irony quotes around the word Thundercraft, since no USAF pilot I know would be caught dead using the term. But what the hell, it was Republic’s collective name for the fighter-bombers they designed and […]