I have always found the concept of lethal injection creepy and offensive. There’s something Orwellian about using the instruments of medicine to bring about death. Yes, that’s how we put down animals, but a human is more than just an animal. A human, even one guilty of a capital crime, deserves to suffer death honestly,… Read More Why We Ever Stopped Using the Gibbet, I’ll Never Understand
Had a rather busy week and haven’t felt like it. Took a trip to NYC to catch NPH in HATAI, which has garnered a bunch of TONY noms. Been farting around with a few writing ideas and just haven’t summoned the will to implement them. It’s much easier to update your Smashwords profile and join… Read More I Don’t Care! I Blog When I Want!
Originally posted on According To Hoyt:
? Yesterday night I had one of those moments when you feel like you should get up from the computer and go look in the mirror, to make sure your consciousness hasn’t – somehow — transferred over to another universe, and you’re not, by any chance green with poka…
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Way before I’d ever read 1984, I’d heard of it. I don’t know if I had heard of it during the year 1984, as I turned eight that autumn, but somewhere along the way I heard that particular year spoken of in that way that conveyed symbolic significance. When I did read it,that significance finally took… Read More 1985 is a Thing
Heh. The sads in the comment section makes it even better. I’m a bad person.
Reaction video to the lastest out-of-the-blue death in Westeros. Spoilers, obviously. Basically, if you find yourself at a wedding there, RUN. Who did it? The books explain it, but honestly, I’ve forgotten. In the final analysis, it doesn’t really matter. Nothing good will come of it. Well, some good, maybe, but really a whole lot… Read More Game of Thrones Turns Us All Into Monsters
Because there seems to be a wrinkle: An attendee later handed a reporter a piece of paper that was apparently thrown by the woman. It appeared to be a copy of a Department of Defense document labeled confidential and dated August 1967; it referred to an operation ‘Cynthia’ in Bolivia. “Operation Cynthia” seems to be… Read More So WHY Did Hillary Get a Shoe Thrown At Her?
They’ve pretty much become the Slate of music magazines (NSFW-ish at link): throwing up outlandish nonsense to boost sales. Ace thinks this editorial ignorance, or even a prophylactic error, a case of “If we don’t put John Hancock’s signature on her butt, people will give us crap for getting it wrong, even though it’s not wrong.”… Read More Rolling Stone Trolls Us All With Naked Julia-Louise Dreyfus, U.S. History Fail
Historical Racism, defined either as discrimination formalized in law or as open white supremacist hostility, has ceased to excite progressives in proportion to the degree it has vanished from American public life. In order to maintain their cultural edge, the Left has instead declared war on the more nebulous (and thus, easier to accuse) “White… Read More I Was Supposed to Get a Pass: Stephen Colbert’s White Privelege, and Other Exercises in Doublethink
