Oh Blackwater, keep on rolling...

Yup, the mercenaries at Blackwater are back in the news... check this out

Great skeptics' video from the Brits

I'd never heard about these guys until I was listening to Dr. Dean Edell (a hero of mine) describe this video and then ran it down on google... This skit does a great job of summarizing how I feel about alternative "medicine" and the net harm it does... (BTW, you can listen to Dean Edell shows at this archive page... his show is from 1PM to 2PM on KGO's schedule)



On my search for this video, I landed (and found the video) on this interesting site where I also found this satirical gem (as an old guy who doesn't chat online much, I had to go look up the meaning of BRB)

(Note: if this offends you, look away!)

Vonnegut Motivational Posters

Yo, I know this blog is inert lately, but go sign this petition (then they'll know whose door to knock down next... probably mine)

Facebook killed the bloggio star...

Man, not that in any way I'd ever consider myself a "bloggio star" (whatever that means) but going full sail on Facebook has seriously piked into the small amount of time I had left over to post on Ho Hum. I'm guessing this effect isn't unique to me (and I also found this similar sentiment). Regardless of how far you thought you left behind your high school and/or college days, you'd be surprised how compulsively you will jump right back in, making "friends" with people you only barely knew, or even disliked. You partly do this to be nice and assume that the person may no longer be a bully or a bitch, or maybe you will think that they may have liked you more than you thought (har!!). Or you may do this because you simply want to see what happened to them (for better or worse) since they (and you) left that world behind. Either way, it is a MAJOR TIME SUCK, and though I'm digging it now (I really am... and my high school was not that viscious, and even most of the jocks were nice guys), I wonder if the "SUCK" part of that will be where I end up with the whole Facebook endeavor. That said, seeing uploaded photos of your 2nd grade class and trying to figure out who is who in that photo has its appeal at this age... but then again, maybe facebook is really EVIL (please chime in, all 2 of you)!!!

p.s., I've noticed that when you go to someone's facebook page and all you can get access too is their "friends" list, you click on that button and because that person either hasn't had time to bother or has chosen not to play, facebook coldly informs you "Fred Jackson has no friends..." The nerve, but then again, it does sound so stark, so sad...

Corporate Greed (the new hot topic... new... heh)

I'm not sure folks should ever expect much from a job at a fast food joint (except learning hard knocks), but this is still emblematic of the climate that were either free falling from or, hopefully, pulling ourselves from it's goopy tendrils... and, I dare say that the Burger King guy is genuinely creepy. I mean creepy like your worst cell mate kinda creepy... I mean Bee Gees creepy (and I don't hate the Bee Gees, but he does look like one scary Baa-haa-haa-ree Gibb)... I mean like hide your children and your live-at-home mother kinda creepy... creepy mofo indeed

Have fun reading this entertaining account of a dosed teacher... and just for pure enjoyment, I present this delightful rendering of Joe Lieberman fucking a donkey (how symbolic)...



by the way, both from The Buffalo Beast... (not that I haven't served them well... but just in case (my own drawings of Liebermann fucking a donkey and not as skilled, but much more detailed...)