ok heres the thing thats pissing me off
this crap going on with Nidal Malik Hasan.im in the military. i am trained to deal with situations like thisevery soldier whether a cook or finance guy knows 2 things that the military has taught us. 1. basic lifesaving techniques 2. properly using hand t

oh the timing!
I regained access to my DreamHost account, which amazingly still has a year of hosting left on it and a free domain name registration available. I will be moving this blog to a slightly fancier URL (but still within the blogger network and this URL will forward, I guess). It also means, provided that I can scrape up a few bucks, I'll have a couple of my other sites back (without access to dreamhost, I couldn't renew the registration, sad times). Some ass-clown has stolen hobsonschoicezine.com and is selling... some crap on it. I'll have to get creative.The timing couldn't be more perfect, though:

Fury Road!
I just stumbled upon this article about the new Mad Max flick. Sam Worthington seems like a good choice, but I am not entirely convinced. Max wasn't a badass because he was necessarily physically endowed - it was because he was smart and took risks (although he was fit enough to pull off whatever he started). The inclusion of Charlize Theron? The only reason for this is to add a romantic sub-plot; it should be noted that none of the other Mad Max movies had one.Also, the name is kinda hokey.

Glenn Beck rumours?
This Fark.com thread is making me all sorts of stupid happy right now. The arguments about memeology (is that correct?) are funny, but the whole Glenn Beck "controversy" is pure gold. Father_Jack 2009-10-21 02:29:18 PM

Darwin called, he wants his royalties
Anthropologist: Modern Man is Inferior to Ancestors"If you're reading this then you -- or the male you have bought it for -- are the worst man in history," McAllister writes in the opening sentence of the prologue. "No ifs, no buts -- the worst man, period. ... As a class we are in fact the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk the planet."Delving into a wide range of source material McAllister finds evidence he believes proves that modern man is inferior to his predecessors in, among other fields, the basic Olympic athletics disciplines of running and jumping.Anthro