Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
So, because the FBI has a habit of finding losers, coaxing them off the couch, holding their hands through the process of planning a terrorist attack, and then arresting them, let me propose this concept for a screenplay:
Yusuf and Khaled are losers, unhappy with their jobs, their lack of luck with women, and their [...]

By Thoreau
I was at the grocery store, wearing my Yes on 19 shirt, when the guy giving free samples noticed it and expressed his support.  So we got to chatting, and I realized that the free sample I was trying was in fact cheese puffs.

By Thoreau
The League of UO Voters makes the following recommendations for Tuesday:
1)  To all of our California peeps, get high AFTER voting for Prop 19.  Not before.  Loss of short term memory may result in forgetting to vote.
2)  We are recommending votes FOR Tea Party candidates.  This may be a surprise, but Hollywood analysts believe [...]

By Thoreau
Several years ago I spent some time on projects related to cancer research.  I signed up with good intent, I did some interesting work, I met some interesting people, and I learned things that I have found useful in other endeavors.  However, while I did publish a paper, from the citation counts it’s safe [...]

By Thoreau
It’s still too early to know the full story of what happened yesterday.  However, we are being told that people in Yemen were mailing bombs to synagogues in Chicago.  If this is true, well, I have absolutely no idea why people in Yemen might hate America.  I’m sure it has nothing to do with [...]

By Thoreau
The TSA is rolling out those pornographic full-body scanners in more airports.  If you don’t want your naked picture, or a naked picture of your teenage daughter, examined by a government employee and stored on a hard drive (that they only read for the articles), you can have a TSA pervert feel you up.  [...]

By Thoreau
So, a few days ago the Ministry fur State Security told us that they had arrested a guy planning to blow up Metro stations.  Except, um, he was actually planning to go overseas and kill people, and the FBI had to prod him to decide to attack Metro stations instead.
If he really wanted to [...]

By Thoreau
I went to a seminar today.  The speaker was sponsored by a program that, well, I won’t identify the program except to say that it has zilch to do with students (except to the extent that everything at a university should ultimately have benefits for students, even if only indirectly).  Everybody in attendance had [...]

By Thoreau
If you don’t want to review a paper, it really isn’t that hard to open the email from the journal, click on the “No thank you” link, and be on your way.  Letting the clock run out just means that it takes more time to line up reviewers and come to a decision on [...]

By Thoreau
What better place than here?  What better time than now?
The Yes on 19 campaign has an ad that they’ll start running on TV this Wednesday.  They want to keep it on the air through Monday.  Help them out.