“No one can purchase The Donald”
Goes the anti-establishment gibe,
He’s amassed so much money
It’s not even funny
There’s not enough left for a bribe! [Read more…]
… I left my first comment on Pharyngula. A couple of days later, I repurposed my “Digital Cuttlefish” blog for reposting of comments on the various Science Blogs, so Saturday will be my 8th blog anniversary. Four years on blogspot, four years on FtB, I’ve seen my readership go from single digits to a thousand a day, and back down to maybe half that on the days I have written something. [Read more…]
Today is, once again, the end of the world. [Read more…]
It’s tragedy, I won’t deny,
And everybody wonders “why?”
(They always do, when people die)
And argue… or discuss
The amateur forensics start;
His motives, actions, picked apart:
The hope is held, with all one’s heart
He isn’t “one of us” [Read more…]
The first school shooting happened, as the year had just begun;
I considered getting angry, but, you know, it’s only one. [Read more…]
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
The evidence of things not seen
–Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)
Some assholes made a video,
In which they told some lies—
They asked dishonest questions,
And they did so in disguise… [Read more…]
I bought myself some honey
Cos my yogurt needs a touch—
It cost very little money
(Since I hadn’t very much)
It was purchased in Bulgaria
Which really was a pain
Cos to bring my honey back with me
I had to take a plane. [Read more…]
We are able to believe, with every fiber of our being,
That a thing may be impossible, but true
We convince ourselves of miracles—accept them without seeing—
It’s a fairly common thing for us to do [Read more…]
Dammit!
I have the world’s worst memory, or so I think someone told me once. Anyway, I very often write stuff which I completely forget I wrote. The good part about that is, I sometimes get a link to something I wrote some time ago, and I get to read it all over again, which most of the time is actually pretty cool. Yeah, sometimes it is embarassingly horrible, but I am actually rather astonished at how often I actually really actually like the stuff I wrote so long ago that I forgot about it. If any of that parses.
I mean, really, if you don’t regularly look through the archives here from years ago, you are missing some really cool things! [Read more…]
Rick Perry’s the first to be leaving, conceiving
Of no way to puncture The Donald’s balloon
And who will be next to go under? We wonder
(The smart money says it will likely be soon!)
The polls would call many contenders pretenders
With numbers so low that they don’t stand a chance.
The hopeful respond, “someone’s trolling the polling—
I’m confident, still, I’ll be asked to the dance!” [Read more…]