Let me tell you about a friend of mine

Thought of the day

Leonardo DiCaprio is underrated.

Thought of the day

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

~Mark Twain

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Mr. Jay Gatsby blogs

Mr. Jay Gatsby has a new blog, Historically Speaking. Despite Mr. Gatsby’s well publicized, shady history, he is now up to telling us honest, non-shady history as it relates to current events.

Go check it out and then add it to your blogroll (as I did).

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I got several shots and medications for my upcoming trip to Africa. S-should I fear getting autism?

Thought of the day

The greatest tool in any philosophy is the thought experiment.

I can have fan pages, too

If Andreas Moritz can have a fan page where he acts against the interests of healthy human bodies, then I can have one which is actually for the sake of goodness and good things.

And while you join the fan page for For the Sake of Science, don’t forget two things. First, join the anti-Andy group. Second, if Moritz is only going to allow sanitized comments on his fan page, be sure to at least make him work at it by leaving comments that let everyone know what a dangerous quack he is.

Jack, Jack, Jack

Editing posts on one’s blog is only funny and/or okay when the person is a spammer. It doesn’t so much work when it’s done to people putting forth real substance.

I actually didn’t say that, and if you are going respond to arguements, perhaps you could respond to arguements made, instead of making arguements up to respond to? Of course, it may be you can’t respond to those actually made, in which case, I understand the temptation.

That should read as follows.

I actually didn’t say that, (sic) and if you are going respond to arguements, (sic) perhaps you could respond to arguements (sic) made, instead of making arguements (sic) up to respond to? (sic) Of course, it may be you can’t respond to those actually made, in which case, (sic) I understand the temptation.

No one minds the occasional typo or spelling error. They happen. I routinely find errors in old posts. (And, in fact, there surely will be one somewhere in this post, no matter how closely I comb over it.) But god damn it. If you’re going to edit someone’s correction, at least also edit what was being corrected in the first place. Language is important.

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Apparently reaching 100,000 blog hits means an increase in spam that gets through the filter. Awesome.