A Cry for Help

I swear to god cannibalism would widely accepted in America if a) someone started serving deep fried human fingers and b) you could get a pill to make you not feel bad for eating human flesh.

The ProJo.com Digital Bulletin, a through-the-day update to the print content available online, is a mixed blessing. It gives you a good look at news as it happens, rather than waiting for the next day’s edition. Sometimes, though, the posted information is incomplete and yet extremely intriguing, as is the case today (emphasis mine):
Two dead [...]

So I’m sucking up to my boss President Bush in my little briefing, telling him how we need not apologize for deposing an evil dictator. Then I tell him how Qaddafi’s (also a nasty dictator) decision to give up WMD production is a victory for our foreign policy. This leads me to wonder [...]

Hey all you political/war junkies, how would you like to serve your country and get me a good grade at the same time? Then prepare a 3-4 page essay on this topic: (click me, it was too long to type)
I’m having trouble with it because there’s quite a few presuppositions in there that I’ve spent [...]

Yesterday in Philadelphia (home of the Phillies and all sorts of phunky “ph” spellings) Veterans Stadium, one of the cookie cutter baseball stadia so popular in the 70’s, bit the dust. Or rather, created a giant cloud of dust as it was brought down with 3,000 pounds of explosives.

Last year was the final season to [...]

Another victory in eradicating evil from the world:
Israel assassinates Hamas leader
And a little tidbit to justify a bad joke, the word assassin comes from an Islamic sect in the 11th - 13th centuries that went to great lengths to kill political and religious leaders who they believed broke the laws of Islam. Our word assassination [...]

On the heels of our comments about ASF last week, the Providence Journal has an altogether horrible article on the man himself. I have no real love for ASF, but he does good work and has inspired people I know, so I’m not sure why the ProJo put a hit piece out on him. Go [...]

I was fishing for comments the other day at Aces Full of Links (and it worked!). But I ended up getting James to think about commenting on these types of websites in general, and he’s done all the heavy lifting of thinking about this, so I’m just going to link to it and make my [...]

There’s a bunch of little things that don’t warrant their own post, so we like to lump them together in a catch-all entry. Enjoy!
I finally got DSL! However, the wireless part of my wireless router seems to have gone on vacation. That severly screws up my plans to sit outside on my porch listening to [...]

It’s a beautiful day in New Orleans. Since it’s a nice lazy Saturday and I don’t have anything to do, I figured I’d take a book outside and read for a while, or maybe go for a walk. I also could really go for an iced coffee. In the interest of combining these things [...]

I was (digitally) sifting through a couple hundred pictures I’ve taken in Providence and came across this one, which I thought was pretty interesting:

These benches are facing the Woonasquatucket River across the street from the Foundry and just upriver from the Mall/Rt. 95. You’d never know there was a river there, as you can [...]

I’ve been watching a practically empty tank for over a month now. A month without fish does great things to a tank - its wonderfully clean and very healthy. Lots of little organisms have been growing and keeping the ecosystem in good shape. However, most of these organisms are extremely tiny or [...]