Dead Cant Rant

Last Thursday the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the concept of private property is unconstitutional. Sound far-fetched? By upholding the right of local governments to bulldoze your un-blighted home and transfer “your” property to the hands of another private citizen, the court has effectively eliminated the entire concept of private property in this country and [...]

While checking out the real Six Million Dollar Man, who has two bionic arms that respond to his thoughts, Reneé made a damn good point: Moving a primitive bionic arm with the simplest gross motor skills is an example of technology intelligently designed, but wave your own arm and that’s supposedly not intelligent design.
Touché.

Via e-mail today from Townhall.com: Townhall SoapBoxes

Beginning this week, Townhall.com will open the Townhall Soapboxes, where Townhall readers can stand up and be counted.
Townhall readers can now sign up to comment on the blog entries by the staff. And readers can now even create their own Soapbox blog and let the world know what [...]

You just can’t make this stuff up. Ted Turner admitted that the reason he took CNN global was because “pretty intelligent” dictator Fidel Castro felt it was “important” to “the whole world”:

“You know, I got the idea to go global from Fidel Castro. The signal spilled into Cuba and he heard about it — and [...]

So I was listening to Michael Savage earlier and he was talking to someone named Michael Harrison. Never heard of him. This would turn out to be the cause of my untimely death, as I would later learn.
So Savage loves this guy, and says “Everybody knows him and everybody loves him. They better, or I’ll [...]

Yesterday’s paper announced that the San Antonio City Council has finally decided to install concrete barricades between opposing lanes on Loop 1604, better known by other names such as “Devil’s Highway” and “Camino de la Muerte”. 17 people have died on Loop 1604 this year alone, as psychotic drivers play pinball with your life. It’s [...]

How does living in San Antonio compare to living in Baghdad?
One is a concrete wasteland in the midst of a natural wasteland, where rival ethnic factions live in a tense peace shattered by the occasional roadside vehicular mass slaughter of innocents. The perpetrators of these crimes are by all accounts uneducated, incompetent, and stupid. They [...]

Now this is hilarious: Spamusement! Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!
Seriously, some of these are pretty damn clever.
And yes, I did get the Carmen Sandiego one. Geek rating 3.1415926535. Guilty as charged.