Quick Hitts

Yet another incident where Thugs in Blue shot a harmless dog.  This time they added insult to injury by stuffing the body into a plastic bag and leaving it by the curb as trash. 
Doesn’t that make you happy that the boys in blue are there to protect you?

Never underestimate the creativity of Americans.  Give us a problem and one of us will come up with a creative solution.  Big problems, little problems, we’ll take on all of them. We can even find solutions to problems that might seem intractable, like naked squirrels.

Congratulations, Paul. You lived an amazing, exciting life and entertained the hell out of us while you did it. Then you stepped out of your well known roles as a race car driver and actor and created products and a company that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars going to charity.
And you made [...]

A few years back the game “Would You Rather…” was inexplicably popular. “Would you rather have needles shoved in your eyes, or eat a dead rat that was rotting in a ditch?” The goal was to come up with the most disgusting selections possible. It was stupid, gross and pointless and I refused to play. [...]

Introducing The Smartenizer, a bi-weekly newsletter that will make you a bit smarter with every issue.
Each issue of The Smartenizer will inform, educate, and smartenize you on a different subject. It will help you tweak, tune and optimize your bullshit meter. It will point to resources you can use for further smartenization. [...]

The end of the world has been delayed for two weeks while repairs are made on the LHC. 
Paranoia over it creating a black hole that will destroy the universe are ridiculous.  The most it would do is destroy the solar system.  Hey, it’s been fun. 
India’s media has been broadcasting all kinds of paranoid [...]

As an enthusiastic amateur chef I’m always looking for new food items and kitchen gadgets. Especially gadgets. Some gadgets are handy, some are just fun, and quite a few of them are useless.
Recently I found the most useless kitchen gadget ever. Dean & Deluca, purveyors of high priced and overpriced goods, is selling [...]

The latest episode of The Quick Hitts Podcast is now available.  It’s titled “Atheists Are Coming For Your Children, but it’s not just a simple rehash of this post.  In fact, it contradicts it.  In the conclusion of that post I said fundies would be powerless to stop us from converting their children.  But after [...]

I recently signed up as a writer for Ask The Atheists, a place for theists and non-theists to discuss the issue like grownups.  Rather than use my moniker “Hittman,” I decided to use you real name to give my replies the appearance of credibility. 
Most of the answers given by most of the writers are [...]

Watching pros play poker is often confusing. Some of their decisions seem strange, counterintuitive, and just plain wrong. This is especially true of Gus Hanson, who frequently makes plays that would seem clinically insane if it he didn’t consistently wins huge amounts of money. Watching him go all in with nothing in [...]

I want to put out a newsletter, (The Smartenizer) so I’m looking at various services and sending some of them questions.  This is one of the few times I’ve clicked on the ads that appear next to Gmail messages.
One was for RDH Marketing.  The link showed me a generic 404 page.  (Not even a custom [...]

I like to buy from sites that feature lots of customer reviews.  It’s one of the reasons I buy most of my electronic stuff from NewEgg.  (The other reasons: their selection is great, their pricing is excellent and their shipping is amazing.  Hint: pick the very cheapest shipping, and it still usually arrives the next [...]

Sherry Jones is another victim of Islam’s attack on free speech. Her book, The Jewel of Media, tells the story of Aisha, he child bride of the pedophile profit Mohamed.
The attack didn’t come directly from Muslim terrorists this time, but from a gutless University of Texas professor who saw the proofs declared [...]

Congress has passed legislation restricting smoking to a single room in Iowa.

And you know it’s true, because it’s from America’s Finest News Source.

This graphic from the New York Times compares the which words and phrases were used most often at the Democratic and Republican conventions.
Interesting, but, of course, it’s all just yammer. We have a choice between a Big Government socialist and a Big Government Fascist. They’re not intentionally socialist or fascist. Both of [...]

I was sitting in downtown Atlanta, having a smoke and watching the people go by. This was even more interesting than usual, because it was the middle of DragonCon and quite a few people were in costume.
A man and his daughter walked by wearing this t-shirt:

…which looked much better in real life than it [...]