Luckiest or Unluckiest Guy Ever?

Matthew Hogan - January 8, 2010 10:09 PM | Comments (0)
Filed Under: Irony Watch , Random Personal , World War 2

Mr. Tsutomu Yamaguchi dies at 93.

Yamaguchi, then an engineer . . . was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when an American B-29 bomber. . . dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing 80,000 people instantly. . . The badly burned Yamaguchi . . . spent the night in an air raid shelter before returning home to Nagasaki, 180 miles away, two days later. He was in Nagasaki on 9 August when a nuclear bomb devastated [that] city, killing an estimated 70,000 people.

You See Me Cryin' Alright: Aerosmith's Betrayal

Matthew Hogan - December 13, 2009 03:44 PM | Comments (0)
Filed Under: American Culture , Irony Watch , Random Personal , Rants- General

O you *$(#ks! You evil b*&^%*s! Yes, you DID INDEED play this song live on this year’s tour! The only time, or almost the only time ever in the like 500 decades since it appeared on, and signed-off, your best studio album. An underrated and underperformed ballad, with Mr. T singing his vocal chords out, it is of similar quality with the mega-hit “Dream On”. Especially with the orchestra on studio. And now that you’re all hissy-fittin’, bone-breaking, catty-snipin’, solo-touring, it may never happen again, you D$%$S. {More ranting below}

Deep Linguistics Philosophy Question

Matthew Hogan - December 13, 2009 03:28 PM | Comments (0)
Filed Under: Egghead Stuff , Humor Attempts , Irony Watch , Random Personal

If an unheard tree falling in the forest really doesn’t make a sound, is the absence of a word for that an illustration of onomatopoeia? Just asking.

Religionphobic? Take the Quiz

Matthew Hogan - November 29, 2009 10:54 PM | Comments (8)
Filed Under: American Culture , Egghead Stuff , Humor Attempts , Irony Watch , Random Personal , Rants- General , Religion , US Politics

You know who you are, and that you have it. Let’s name this condition with a more clinically pretentious sounding term: fideophobia (via Latin, fides, faith). Fideophobia is the hysterical fear of, or hostility towards, religious faith or those who observe one. I am not talking here about healthy skepticism, or even that Marxian ol’ time anti-religion that’s good enough for Mao. Nor do I mean hostility to specific faiths, which is something rival faith-holders can have for each other. For fideophobes I mean those who, after encountering just about any outward expression of religiosity, have a near-epileptic seizure.