Common Sense

Slate seems to be taking the approach that sex sells because they have several stories today about sex.
Probably the creepiest is William Saletan discussing lowering the age of consent. He breaks consent down between three distinct areas: biological readiness which is around 12, age of cognitive readiness which is around 16 and age of emotional […]

Not being the techno-geek that I should be to really speak about this problem, I can only tell you it has given me a headache.
I don’t know which one I’m going to have to fork over the dough to buy in the future so that I can watch movies on my HDTV. It seems to […]

The only time I have ever said “Hey, I think Rick Perry is right,” (and it was hard to say. I had to have a shot of gin afterward.) was when he wrote the executive order to vaccinate every girl over the age of 12 with Gardasil to prevent infection with certain strains of HPV […]

Go see SiCKO.
That’s my review. You need to see it to understand it and it was well worth the price of admission to find out just how bad our health care system is in America.
Let me tell you one of the stories, so you can understand:
An EMT who did work on Ground Zero required special […]

Apparently, a long while back since I actually had trouble finding the Nethaway column on the Trib Web site to link to.
Rowland Nethaway, senior editorialist, man who accepted National ID cards wholeheartedly, writes:
After demonizing universal heath care for generations, many traditional opponents are admitting that the fragmented U.S. health care model needs a universal solution.
The […]

And that is sooooo last decade. Why did we even elect a Democratic Senate anyway?
The Senate effectively killed a bid to allow consumers to buy their prescription medicines abroad Monday, requiring U.S. officials to certify the safety and effectiveness of such drugs.

Which is such bull. It’s the exact same pills only the governments in England, […]

I expect more from a movie Web site like CHUD. I guess I should start lowering my expectations from now on.
28 Weeks Later is, of course, the sequel to from-out-of-nowhere powerhouse neo-zombie flick 28 Days Later. Upping the ante this time as zombie franchises tend to do, we’ve got the military full-on in this one […]

It’s snowing… in April… in Texas! Al Gore was right, we’re all going to die!!!!
I’d like to see Sen. James “I’m a douchebag because I took 8th Grade Earth Science 40 years ago” Inhofe explain this. It’s just like in The Day After Tomorrow where Global Warming led to another ice age.

I just had an interesting experience at work. A woman called in asking what this light was in the sky. She specifically asked if it might be a UFO.
She described it as a star that was falling down, then it disappeared.
Why anyone would call a sports clerk to ask about UFO sightings or for meteorological […]

Oh that’s right, you people think Dec. 25 is all about Jesus’ birthday. Well, the Roman sun god and I know better.
But, to show you I’m in the holiday spirit, here’s a special video for you.
I should probably mention that I’m really only in a good mood because of drugs. i’ve been taking 600mg of […]