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By Dave Hitt on Apr 8, 2008 in Religion, Things Atheists Didn't Do | 2 Comments
Imagine that the parents of an 11 year old child refused to give her medical treatment because they believed the ancient god Moloch would save her. They prayed to Moloch for a month, convinced that he would cure her ills, while the child got sicker and sicker. But alas, the child died of juvenile diabetes. […]
By Dave Hitt on Apr 8, 2008 in Big Brother, Police State, Politics, Ridiculous | 0 Comments
If you want to go fishing in any of the Great Lakes, be sure to have your passport. And to fax in all your ID info to customs an hour before you leave. And then visit customs afterward to have your photographs taken, along with a sliver of your dignity. These are new rules to […]
By Dave Hitt on Apr 4, 2008 in Pop Culture | 4 Comments
I recently added StumbleUpon to my browser. You tell it what kinds of things you’re interested in, and when you’re bored you click the icon on your taskbar and it brings to to a semi-random site that they think will interest you. You can then rate it thumbs up or thumbs down with a mouse […]
By Dave Hitt on Apr 4, 2008 in Politics | 4 Comments
New York State, faced with a five billon dollar deficit, are turning to their favorite whipping boy: Smokers. After making it illegal to have a smoke in a bar, driving people outside in the weather, and going so far as to make it illegal for business owners to provide any kind of shelter for smokers […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 31, 2008 in Nanny Nation | 4 Comments
This just in from the wonderful world of socialized medicine. The U.K. mandates that anyone who visits an emergency room must be treated within four hours. Sometimes the demand for “free” heath care is so great a hospital can’t meet that deadline. Fortunately, they’ve come up with a novel solution. They leave the patients in […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 27, 2008 in Pop Culture | 0 Comments
A couple of years ago I started the Podcast Peer Awards. I was tired of top ten lists that always featured the same shows. I was unhappy that the only other podcast award was structured so that the only winners would be those with huge audiances. I wanted a contest where other podcasters would select […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 26, 2008 in Big Brother, Nanny Nation, Yeah - That'll Work | 1 Comment
A high school project in New Jersey asked teens to design public policy. They designed one that requires Big Brother to punish kids for making incorrect decisions, proving that government schools are doing a fine job of raising the next generation of sheep. The new bill would fine kids caught possessing tobacco or smoking in […]