Book Review II: Like A Rolling Stone -- The Strange Life of A Tribute Band

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November 14, 2009 08:50 AM

Another in a series of scribblings about books I've read over the past months..... Like A Rolling Stone: The Strange Life of A Tribute Band, by Steven Kurutz. Most pleasurable book I’ve read in a long time. Well-written, amusing and sad, the author takes us on tour with various tribute...[More]

Book Review: A History of Pi

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November 13, 2009 03:03 PM

One in a series of scribblings about books I've read over the past months..... A History of Pi, by Petr Beckmann Couldn’t quite get through all of it but it is a mostly pleasant tour for the nerdy among us, which takes us through the history of mathematics' and mankind’s...[More]

QOTD -- Murder, Dismemberment: Crazy? Only If You Do it At Home

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November 8, 2009 05:57 PM

I kind of thought this quote from an AP article odd, regarding the alleged serial killer who is said to be of that unusual type who deposits his victims' remains in his own yard. Sowell's alleged crimes place him among a rare breed of serial killers: those who literally work...[More]

World War Two Observation: Nazis Eschewed Bioweapons

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September 27, 2009 03:26 PM

Per an earlier entry in which I mentioned I would be dropping observations over here on World War II and its lead-up as derived from various research projects, here's another one....[More]

US Health Care Political Debate: The Core (ReDux)

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September 19, 2009 09:02 AM

Just narrowing down the feeling that my thoughts from a prior post are indeed confirmed, just by watching the tenor of things in this country. Here I summarize the political conflict more succinctly....[More]

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.
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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}

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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.

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