Humor in a political vein

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Election Results with Mr. Peabody…
Again I laugh [1]…  followed a link from an article on the current google news page and found this:
The Myth of Stagnant Wages
Got down to the third paragraph, to wit:
consider this: If the standard of living of the average American really had not improved for more than three decades, wouldn’t there [...]

Awesome, thy name is EFBQ

Anybody remember that old commercial – I think it was for Geritol or somesuch, which is sadly ironic given this particular spelunking of the Memory Cave – which ended with the guy snarkily saying to the camera, “My wife. I think I’ll keep her.”?
Fast forward to Thursday, when I was due to head downtown [...]

Cynical observations…

I used to feel that there were two types of friends. Those who will ‘tell you to your face’, and those who won’t. Since I tend to err on the side of directness myself, I tended to choose the first sort because, at least, I knew what their issues were. [...]

…and we’ll never be ‘cool’ again

Still recovering from the cold from beyond the 8th DimensionTM. I’ve had time to muse on various things (which is always dangerous).
In the past 24 hours one child has been recognized as ‘indispensable’ by  the director of the school play (she’s on tech crew this time around).  The other one was told that there [...]

Pleasant fever dreams…

The last time I was sick for any period of time we still had cable, and I spent hours watching the worst monster movies I could find on the SciFi channel. I’ve got some sort of nasty virus again, and am seriously messed up, to the point where I can’t really see what I’m [...]

Someone cue that “O RLY?” owl

Two things: first, I recently read about Cory Doctorow, the author/blogger/activist/Boing Boing guy, being described as a “polymath“; I believe this was on 43 Things or something. That seems like a good thing to be, and I suppose in the abstract I’ve considered myself something of a polymath due to my various pursuits as [...]

The Sweater Poll

A sweater plays a central role in today’s episode of The Secret Frequency podcast. It was worn by Howard Wolfson, a consultant for the Clinton campaign, on the day of the New Hampshire primary and was very visible on news broadcasts.
The sweater is apparently made from the ‘Marius‘ pattern (which has apparently been [...]

Now that I’m a parent… I still don’t understand

Years ago, when I first came across the whole ‘explicit lyrics’ label debate, I got into a discussion with a young mother about censoring lyrics of songs at the source.  I was told, in no uncertain terms, that keeping the ears of children safe was more important than free speech and “When you’re a parent, [...]

Hello, Hello, Hello!

It’s nice to be here at the Hidden Message.
Like scooterbird, I have abandoned my old livejournal account (same user name) because I haven’t been happy with their customer service and policies. I also have an existing blog which I will not be abandoning, Penumbral Lore; Shadows of Science. It’s a ‘theme’ blog, which [...]