Monday, February 17, 2014
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Posted
4/02/2013 10:38:00 PM
by Douglas
What's really funny about these old commercials from 20 years ago: I remember when they came on and thinking to myself "Tom Selleck is out of his mind."
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Posted
3/27/2013 11:26:00 PM
by Douglas
What we're good at now:- Locking people up
- Believing in angels
- Making bombs
Can't really aruge with that:
Monday, March 18, 2013
Posted
3/18/2013 11:34:00 PM
by Douglas
For some reason, I’m in a Star Wars kind of mood today. I saw this several years ago and thought it was pretty funny, but the “inside job” thing really needed some more development. Well here it is:
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Posted
12/23/2012 10:37:00 AM
by Douglas
What a strange piece on the political and cultural discourse in this country:Unfortunately for our country, the Bloomberg versus LaPierre contrast is basically all of American politics today. Our society is divided between an ascendant center-left that’s far too confident in its own rigor and righteousness and a conservatism that’s marched into an ideological cul-de-sac and is currently battering its head against the wall. Even funnier coming from The New York Times.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Posted
11/11/2012 07:48:00 PM
by Douglas
What a great video! I hope they show this at the recruiting stops around Johnson Space Center. NASA has done a LOT to get engineers working in the oil and gas industry. Like laying off thousands of them:
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Posted
9/18/2012 08:34:00 PM
by Douglas
This is what America was up to 150 years ago: The bloodiest day in American History. And here are some stirring pictures from the day. I liked this quote about Brady's photography: “Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war,” a reporter for[sic] the New York Times wrote after a visit to Brady’s studio. “If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along streets, he has done something very like it.”
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