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Pretty much anything that doesn’t have it’s own catagory.
An unnecessary distinction (also, porno)
4I heard a political ad on the radio this morning that was touting the efforts of a particular state senator’s efforts to protect the people from “child sex predators.” I was unaware that there were different categories of child predator, necessitating the distinction. Perhaps part of our financial crisis is due to child lending predators, running amok giving small children irresponsible loans? Or maybe they just didn’t want us to confuse them with literal child predators, like lions or an out-of-control hippo. And frankly, that’s a shame, because I don’t want a state legislator that More >
A grown-up’s guide to Sesame Street for grown-ups
8Sesame Street is a wonderful educational program that’s been entertaining and informing small children for years. For parents of young children, it can be a great educational tool. It doesn’t hurt that it’s a children’s program that won’t make you want to throw your TV out the window, either. Chances are, though, that it’s been a long time since you watched Sesame Street — or your parents didn’t love you enough to let you watch it when you were a kid — so you may not be as familiar with the characters as you think. With that in mind, I happily present Random Rage’s grown-up’s guide to the More >
Fact-checking the debate
23 years ago
in Misc.
You have to...HAND IT to my opponent. Eh? Get it? I'm sorry, sometimes my jokes are a little strange because I was a POW and a war hero.
This Tuesday saw the second meeting between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, the respective Democratic and Republican nominees for the American presidency. The debate was a “town hall” format, in quotes because it wasn’t really a town hall format, hosted by Tom Brokaw, the most passive-aggressive journalist anyone could find. The modern debate has become another forum for political candidates to spin the truth in their favor; and while there are More >
The Worth of a Guarantee (a sad but true story)
3Internet problems. Not again. Not after everything I went through before, I thought.
The internet was down, all right. The tubes to my house must have been clogged. I had no choice, I had to call customer service.
I hate calling customer service.
I told the robot on the other end what the skinny was. He seemed sympathetic, but I suppose he was programmed to seem that way. Then I held. I held for what seemed like an eternity, playing solitaire and listening to jazz on speakerphone. Then she answered.
An accent, I thought. Fantastic. Why do they always have to have accents? Hers was More >
We now resume our regularly scheduled programming
03 years ago
in Misc.
Things have been pretty busy at Casa de Rage, lately, so I apologize for the dearth of posts. A great many things have happened over the past several weeks, and I look forward to telling you all about them. For now, here is a short summary of things that happened to me while I was away from the keyboard. During the time I wasn’t blogging, I:
- Visited a casino and found out why the “Bet max” button on a slot machine should never be used.
- Formulated a plan to help rid the world of terrible restaurant servers.
- Perfected my Siegfried in Soul Calibur IV.
- Had my Dash Express GPS break, and More >
Good times on the Web
3I’ve gushed before about my web browser preferences, but these are exciting times for web surfers. Since the world-wide-web came into existence, web browsers have been like Sith – there are only two…two that count, anyway. And just like Sith, they may play nice while secretly desiring to destroy the other and rule the universe web. In the early days, it was Netscape dueling it out with Mosaic. That eventually turned into Internet Explorer vs. Netscape, which gave way to the Firefox/IE deathmatch. Web browsers have been like the de-facto two-party American political system, with fringe More >
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