Quick Hitts

We’re going to take a vote on what we’ll have for dinner. Your first choice is a giant, steaming plate of dog turds. Your second choice is a different giant steaming plate of dog turds. As Americans, you are encouraged to debate before voting. You can point out that one stack leans a bit more […]

Yesterday the local newspaper, The Times Union, printed my letter to the editor. They subjected it to some slightly clumsy editing. They mucked up a couple sentences, added a pair of spurious quotation marks and changed my signature “for the childreeeeeeeen” phrase to the less interesting “for the children.” But they didn’t alter the essence […]

We stopped SOPA/PIPA, a bill that would have broken the internet, with a huge effort that included shutting down major sites and minor ones (like this one), creating an uproar that congress was afraid to ignore. But we know it was only a temporary victory and some new version if it will be back with […]

Recently, when replying to a comment here, I was presented with this reCAPTCHA.

We all like to believe our group is better than their group, and atheists and skeptics are not immune, so this article, which claims that religious people are less compassionate than the non-religious,  didn’t surprise me.  Read it and see how many times your Bullshit Meter goes off. Done? If you’d like to continue testing your meter here’s a more thorough and slightly less […]

Banana Man It’s nine AM on a Sunday The regular crowd shuffles in With their bibles in hand they fill up the stands I wish the girls showed some more skin They say Kirk can you tell me a fairy tale On TV and blogs and YouTube Say something cute about tropical fruit And prove […]

Our improv troupe always spent a fair amount of time and effort designing and distributing posters, despite the fact that they increased show attendance by approximatly none. Here’s one we did when for a show just before Easter.   (Click to see it full size)   Artwork: Harold Gosling