September 30, 2016 – 3:55 pm
Beating the nutjobs at their own game (Fox News)  As Heat Street‘s Politics Editor Jillian Melchior reported this week, a new policy at the University of Michigan allows students to choose their preferred pronouns — including the gender-neutral “they†and “ze†— to appear on class rosters. With that in mind, one conservative student, Grant Strobl, who is […]
August 30, 2016 – 10:00 am
Seriously, if someone is going to go to the lengths to create a gender confused Transgender superhero (heroine?), the least they can do is give them better powers than minor vandalism (WFMY) Â A Triad-based comic book shop will debut a new comic series that features a transgender superhero next month. In protest of House Bill […]
July 14, 2016 – 4:33 pm
One has to wonder, how many Pokemon GO players will be Darwin Awards nominees by years end? (Fox News) The incredibly popular Pokemon Go smartphone game nearly claimed its first life Tuesday night after a driver in upstate New York swerved off the road and hit a tree while trying to catch Pokemon, police said. […]
February 2, 2016 – 2:44 pm
Special Snowflake Syndrome Strikes again (Yahoo News) A woman is demanding a lifetime supply of KitKats after she bought a packet of the chocolatey treats without any wafer. Saima Ahmad, 20, a law student from Enfield, north London, purchased a multipack of eight KitKat bars from a supermarket for £2 last month. But when she […]
December 31, 2015 – 7:16 am
You’re doing it wrong https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/682349987678842881 From the article A skirmish broke out between rival activists on the steps of City Hall Wednesday during what had been intended as a demonstration against violence in Newark. Police were called to the scene after a small crowd began arguing over escalating violence and the city’s attempts to curb […]
October 27, 2015 – 6:57 pm
OK, I’ll admit, the party theme was in poor taste, no doubt about it. Who would have thought that college kids would engage in stuff that others might have said “um, maybe we shouldn’t do this”? Theme party causes controversy at NC State A controversial party, held on the heels of “Diversity Week,” is causing […]
October 6, 2015 – 6:12 pm
Seriously, that’s just wrong. I just ordered a new remote for my car stereo (the old one is somewhat worn out), the Dodgers start their series against the Mets on Friday, and the Devils start their season off against Winnipeg on Friday, as well. (Gizmodo) Â Chris McCann, the founder of the fringe Christian group eBible […]
September 25, 2015 – 12:04 pm
The Chive is running a pictorial on the dumbest way you’ve hurt yourself (I’m sure swiped from another site), and this I can relate to. I rarely get sick, I’m not a klutz, I don’t take stupid risks, but, I do manage to hurt myself in imaginative ways. Let’s see, there was the time I […]
September 24, 2015 – 10:04 am
It’s the age old canard…well, if you consider over 16 years “old”, since phones with cameras haven’t really been around that long. The first commercially available one hit the market in South Korea in 2000. It wasn’t till 2002 that a US carrier, Sprint, started selling one. They were all clunky with very low resolution, […]
February 24, 2015 – 9:24 am
Did you know that emojis, thinks like and and are raaaaacist? Perhaps it would be better if I used and and for this Salon article by Anna Silman We’re finally getting non-white emoji Great news, fellow emoji users: It looks like our nonverbal communications are about to get a whole lot more inclusive.  The Next Web got […]
