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By Dave Hitt on Apr 25, 2009 in Religion, Things Atheists Didn't Do | 8 Comments
I’ve never liked the term whatever-phobe, which makes the usually spurious assumption that fear is the only reason to dislike something. I’m not afraid of Islam; I hate it because it is a vile religion that sucks in every way possible. I’m not an Islamophobe, I’m an Islamocontempter. I’m Islamodisgusted. Likewise, those who hate gays […]
By Dave Hitt on Apr 20, 2009 in Poker | 2 Comments
I was having a horrible month of bad beats at the sit-n-gos. I play $2 and occasionally $5 SnGs (yes, I’m that good) but wasn’t even breaking even on them. It was bad beat after bad beat. Kings beat by sixes. Kings beat by an A7 offsuit – not by the ace, but by their […]
By Dave Hitt on Apr 12, 2009 in Amusing, Religion | 1 Comment
What does a rabbit or an egg have to do with Jesus? I’d learned that they were hangovers from pagan fertility rites that were incorporated into Christianity to help make it easier for those filthy heathens to convert. But recently I discovered the real story behind these Easter icons. Happy Easter!
By Dave Hitt on Apr 3, 2009 in Bad Business, StartLogic Sucks | 2 Comments
I just got an e-mail from SiteUpTime which listed a monthly summary of all the times my site has been down in the last month. The list was blank. When StartLogic was my host I used to get at least one notice, and often two or three, every day. A recent comment to this post […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 31, 2009 in Junk Science, Political Correctness, Politics | 13 Comments
One reason Global Warming, er, sorry, Climate Change, doesn’t have me wetting myself in fear is I’ve lived through too many other End Of The World As We Know It predictions. These are a few of the EOTWAWKI predictions I recall in my lifetime: The Cold War – the most real and likely end of […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 29, 2009 in Junk Science, Politics | 3 Comments
Turning off the lights and burning candles instead might feel good, but it occurred to me it probably puts more CO2 in the air than just leaving the lights on. I wasn’t sure how to calculate the numbers, so Googled the information, and found someone else had already done the math. Still, I enjoy meaningless […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 21, 2009 in Bad Business, Politics | 1 Comment
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re deeply in debt (I know that’s a big stretch for most of you). You’ trying to deal with a bill for $1,000 and you’ve got no money to pay it. Your son has just thrown a quarter in a fountain. A quarter! Like you can afford that. You berate […]