Apr
19

Murder-suicide in the news

mikkie on April 19th, 2009

I think people have just lost their damn minds. A quick search of “murder-suicide” on MSNBC turned up an overabundance of stories on the subject – at least six of which within the last month have included the murder of children. People are killing their entire families (and in one case, even the family pets!) at [...]

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Feb
3

Subliminally speaking

mikkie on February 3rd, 2009

A new trend in advertising gimmicks has really started to bother me lately – the practice of broadcasting “micro-ads” about one second in length, typically inserted just before a program returns from a commercial break. Sometimes they’re not even consciously recognizable, just a blip on the screen when watching in real time. It’s only when [...]

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Jan
20

Mr. President

mikkie on January 20th, 2009

Today was a big day for Barack Obama, and for the country. Change has indeed come, as promised — but what sort of change materializes in this new administration remains to be seen.
I really liked Obama at first, but that slowly turned to skepticism as the way-too-long campaign ground on. I liked his charisma, energy [...]

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Jan
10

Global warming? Get over it!

mikkie on January 10th, 2009

I’m not a believer in all this “global warming” mania. People focus on the last hundred years or so and act like Chicken Little, crying that the sky is falling. What they’re failing to understand is that there have been periods of alternate warming and cooling throughout the earth’s history, LONG before humans were making [...]

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