In which I am annoyed at being told how to pronounce the year.

By , on 8 January, 2010

I came across the following site during my wanderings today: It’s Twenty-ten, not Two-thousand and ten. It makes the following argument about how we should say the year 2010:

Say the year “1810″ out loud. Now say the year “1999″ out loud. See a pattern? It’s been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this . . . → Read More: In which I am annoyed at being told how to pronounce the year.

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Red State Update offers a prayer for Tiger Woods.

By , on 8 January, 2010

How in the hell did I not know about Red State Update? These two are hilarious and I’ll be spending part of my weekend watching back episodes. Here they offer up a prayer for Tiger Woods:

They make me proud of my own redneck heritage.

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Movies I’m Looking Forward To: “Kick Ass”

By , on 8 January, 2010

It’s terribly violent and looks outrageously funny. Plus it has Nic Cage shooting his 10-year-old daughter point blank in the chest to train her how to take a gunshot. It’s Kick Ass:

Yeah, that looks like it’s going to be a fun one.

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Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: End of the World edition.

By , on 7 January, 2010

Don’t make any big plans for May 21, 2011. Why? Because according to 88-year-old Christian nutcase Harold Camping, that’s the true date for the end of the world:

Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One . . . → Read More: Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: End of the World edition.

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SEB Review: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ for the PC.

By , on 5 January, 2010

It's a great game that has some terrible flaws.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

I’m in a real love/hate relationship with this game and I’m torn on how to present the review. So I suppose I’ll start off with a quick summary: It’s awesome and horribly flawed at the same time. This latest . . . → Read More: SEB Review: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ for the PC.

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Illinois woman prays God will bring jobs to her town.

By , on 2 January, 2010

JoAnna Caldwell of Jacksonville, Illinois has the solution to her town’s unemployment problem. She got a handful of people together and prayed for God to make it all better:

“I was laying in bed and I heard God say, ‘Go pray in the plaza,’” Caldwell said. “So I figured I’d get people out here with . . . → Read More: Illinois woman prays God will bring jobs to her town.

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