Yeah, she’s an insult comic and bigotry forms the foundation of her humor. But there’s something charming about her Sopranos-like speech and her old-school prejudices. Reminds me of living in Jersey. (Plus, she clearly loves the people she pokes fun of)
She’s been on the Comedy Central celebrity roast circuit, roasting Pamela Anderson, Flava Flav and […]

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Posted on October 31st, 2007 by JM

Avoid serious soul-searching and take this simple (bordering on idiotic) test (but it is kind of fun), courtesy of Paul Zindel’s “The Pigman”, which I read in the 8th grade:
There is a river with a bridge over it and a wife and her husband live in a house on one side. The wife has a […]

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Posted on October 30th, 2007 by JM

In the runup to the Democratic primaries, I’ve pretty much been a Hillary supporter.
I guess I’m a member of the slightly more cynical (read: realistic) Democratic base that understands you have to make lots of concessions to various interest groups in order to get the votes and money in. People might find that loathsome, and […]

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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by JM

This morning I opened Yahoo, and found two mistakes in their flashy news headlines section I was hoping to attribute to being half-asleep and bleary-eyed.
One mistake is a very common one, but still should have been caught if they have a halfway decent editor on staff. (Bartleby). The other is just asinine. Readheads? At first I thought […]

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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by JM

Turkey, a developing country with a small parcel of land on the European peninsula, and with hundreds of years of engagement (read: war and occupation) with what we generally accept as Europe, has been trying to join the European Union for years.
And yet a very fundamental characteristic of what it means to be European is […]

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Posted on October 19th, 2007 by JM

It used to be the either poor or unscrupulously cheap of us would buy pirated CDs or DVDs off the street (count me among them). But you got what you paid for - shitty sound quality, or camcorder fumbles and audience members ambling in front of the camera.
So there was an understandable price differential - less money […]

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Posted on October 18th, 2007 by JM

Mainstream Christianity is associated with hypocrisy, judgmentalism, and homophobia…according to a majority of young people, including Christians. The fact that today’s most prominent Christians are so, well, unChristian (you know, tossing to the wind any sense of charity, tolerance and love for your common man) is not lost on young people.
My faith in the future: restored.
So […]

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Posted on October 17th, 2007 by JM

Yet another example of an industry involved in the distribution of protected content just doesn’t get it. Yes, like the music industry, which makes you pay more for less quality.
I wanted to buy the David Allen book, “Getting Things Done”. Here were my options:

$15 for the eBook - a PDF file - for download
$8.99 for […]

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Posted on October 16th, 2007 by JM

Now, like just about every man on the planet, I wouldn’t complain if my equipment were bigger (even Long Dong Silver would–female readers, I’m not sure I can explain this, but, ask any man, it’s true). And it wouldn’t bother me if I could engage in day-long Kama Sutra marathons. Who wouldn’t? But I have to say for […]

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Posted on October 15th, 2007 by JM

Me. Today. Waiting for the next BART train.
Ugly anorexic shrew in front of me (normally I couldn’t care less how strangers look, but read on).
The train going in a different direction comes. Those who want to take the train board. The rest of us waiting for the next train move up and continue to wait.
The […]

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Posted on October 11th, 2007 by JM