There Are Still Good Things

 Tree-Hugger Civilizer
Here’s your happy for the day.  The world’s most endangered species of cat, the Iberian lynx, its habitat shrinking due to human encroachment and mismanagement, and its prey species populations thinning due to disease, was thought to be on the way out.  Though a captive breeding program in its native Spain was reporting some [...]

Get Off The Throne And Back Behind The Desk, Please

 Civilizer
The Bush presidency has been historically notable not just for the immediate nature of its ineptitude, but also for its potential, depending on how the next decade or so goes, to have done long-lasting, truly structural damage to our country and constitution.  The administration’s signature blend of domestic bullying and maladroit foreign policy has produced a [...]

Mocking TAG Body Spray Users Is A Noble Pursuit: Quote Of The Day

 
I hate this product and all its brand image stands for with an intensity far greater than is probably reasonable.
From The Onion’s September 20th article “Massive Tag Body Spray Slick Spreading From Jersey Shore“:
“An Environmental Protection Agency spokesman said that Tag levels were already becoming dangerously high in recent years due to the thousands of [...]

This Is What The “Home Of The Brave” Part Of The Song Means

Link? LINK?! Oh, This Will Not Do.

 Civilizer’s Inner Geek
It’s a common complaint today that the powers that be are out of touch with the average person, that grassroots movements can’t stand up to the slick, well-financed corporate cabal with its political access and marketplace domination.  “I can’t make a difference” is the sad conclusion that a lot of people come to after [...]

I Don’t Think Fred Thompson Thought This Through

 Civilizer
So there are a few decisions in life that assume a supercessionary degree of importance.  These decisions really demand you hit pause on most of your other cognitive activity so that you can devote any and all available reflective, logical, and decision-making resources to them…where to go to college is usually the first one that arises.  Then maybe who to [...]

New Cut List!

New cut list is up!  So click that link up at the top there.

Al Gore’s Evil Twin Accepts Nobel Peace Prize On Behalf of Al Gore

“Why Gore Shouldn’t Run For President,” Exhibit A: wins one of the most coveted prizes on Earth, uses opportunity for a photo op.  Wears: dark suit.  Hair: brought to you by Jiffy Lube.  Backdrop: Planet Earth as seen through the telescope of an alien civilization about to invade.  Facial expression: sinister, with arched eyebrow.  Hand [...]

Arcade Fire, Nada Surf Fans: Please Don’t Have Kids

 Civilizer
Somewhere along the line, the educational system in this country went right off the rails.  I’m sure it began with the best of intentions.  A generation ago, somebody probably noticed that school cirricula were becoming a stagnant, inflexible compendium of diminishing returns – advances in child and adolescent psychology were outpacing the moribund 3 R’s, and educators [...]

I’m Back!

50 POSTS AND STILL CRUISING

  
We now resume our normal posting schedule.