Walmart Institutes Dress Code for Shoppers
Strategy is part of a makeover for the image-conscious Walmart chain After years of being the butt of jokes regarding the class of shoppers it attracts, Walmart executives … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
Medea Benjamin to Speak in Sacramento
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and Global Exchange speaks in Sacramento about drone warfare and her book, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control. Thursday, June 21, 2012, 7pm, … Read more
The Blood Light
The Blood Lamp is a teaching tool about understanding our carbon footprint. To activate it one must break off the top, crush a tablet to powder, dissolve it in the liquid in the bulb, then add a drop of blood. A chemical reaction…
Mitt Romney Wants New Tour Bus Equipped with Gaydar
According to reliable sources, Mitt Romney is about to get a brand new tour bus, as his old one is falling apart and starting to smell a bit … Read more
Cyber Ghosts and Dresser Drawers
There was a story I read long ago. I think it was by Ray Bradbury. It is certainly in his style. In the future all fiction has been banned and burned. The ghosts of Poe and Lovecraft and all the others live on in a haunted mansion …
The Last Glass of Dandelion Wine: Ray Bradbury Dies
My first encounter with Ray Bradbury happened before I had read any of his stories. I remember I was seated in the auditorium at my grammar school. They showed us a 16mm film of a man with thick glasses wearing a sweater who talked…
The Undead Man Will Search Endlessly for What Dick Cheney Has Taken from Him
There are levels of Hell that even Dante did not know. Hells that are not bright and hot, but with an icy cold that freezes thought itself. Hells … Read more
Not Harvey Dent…
…Just a man who spent 28 years driving a truck.
During all of that time the sun’s rays shone on the left side of his face through the glass.
From The New England Journal of Medicine, via tywkiwdbi
Be seeing you.
April 2018: Close of Second Great Civil War Leads to a Nation Divided
NEWS OF THE FUTURE — April, 2018 Many changes have come to America in the years since the second Civil War in 2017. As you well know, the … Read more
I Sing The Body Holographic
Perhaps the holodeck from Star Trek: The various Generations isn’t that far in the future after all. A lingerie shop in Paris has been featuring this as their window display:
While my French is virtually non-exista…
