At Least She Made It Home Safely

I've been following this story about the British school teacher in Sudan pretty closely, and thankfully it recently had a happy ending. One thing really stood out to me, however... if this is the way people behave in a society predominated by a patriarchal fundamentalist belief system, why are Americans so eager to allow fundamentalist Christians to have such unfettered access to OUR government? Is this kind of narrow-minded reactionary persecution really what the American people want in their own country?

Take a good look, folks... each step we take to abolish the line between church and state brings us closer to this kind of society.

Joke of the Week

Q. What's the difference between a golf ball and a woman's G-Spot?

A. A man will spend half an hour looking for a golf ball...

Can't See the Forest for the Phone Books

As I tripped over the phone books my local communications company had thoughtfully placed directly on my front doorstep, I was struck with the utter uselessness of said weighty tomes. In this day and age of Internet saturation, do we really need to kill the trees necessary to provide not one, but TWO giant books full of information that is readily available with literally a couple of button pushes on our cell phones?

Oh Goodie... A New Addiction.

When I was 10, my father moved my whole family to England for a few years. One of the memories that still stands out today was of tender, lightly battered fish from the local fish and chip shop... a taste I'd been unable to find back here in America... until yesterday.

I'd seen the little hole-in-the-wall place called GB Fish and Chips every day since my work moved to their new building, and yesterday I decided to give them a go.

I had the cod, and it was literally the flakiest, most tender, perfectly battered little plank of perfection I had tasted on this side of the Atlantic.

Had a chance to meet the owner, Alex, while I was waiting for my food. Really great guy, serving REALLY great food. You're doing yourself a disservice by not immediately packing up whatever you're doing and heading there.

No-one Consulted Me...

I understand the reasons behind the Writer's Strike. Hell, I agree that they should be rightfully compensated for their content when it appears on the internet. I just wish someone would have consulted me about the timing of the strike... because, quite frankly, 11 episodes of Heroes was just not enough. How am I supposed to get my Hayden Panatierre fix now?

Oh, and I'm sure as hell not running down to Best Buy to drop 30 bucks on a 11-episode Season DVD, either...

I read that during the 1988 Strike, television networks lost 10% of their viewership... AND NEVER GOT THEM BACK. Think about this: that was before the pervasion of video game consoles that we have now. Some of the story lines coming out of the game studios (See Halo, GTA IV, Mass Effect) are easily the equal of anything coming out of Hollywood... something the producers and studio executives should keep in mind before they let this strike go on for too long...