Best of 2009 – My 10 Favorite Posts From the Last 12 Months
In no particular order, here are my 10 favorite posts from 2009. Happy New Year!
What Kind of God…?
Almost every day I see a report or hear of some sort of ridiculous rituals being performed by people purely for religious reasons. I usually blow them off as they’re typically silly, pointless mechanisms that really don’t hurt anyone other aside from maybe wasting someone’s time.
But every once and again, I become truly appalled that people – real living, breathing, thinking, loving human beings can perform such excessively malevolent acts in the name of their Deity.
This headline definitely caught my attention:
200,000 animals to be sacrificed at Nepal festival
More than 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons will be killed Tuesday and Wednesday at the temple in the jungles of Bara district, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Katmandu, to honor the Hindu goddess Gadhimai…
…The slaughtered animals are taken back by devotees to their villages and eaten during a feast. The meat is considered blessed and consuming it protects them from evil.
Stop the Presses – We’ve Got More Useless News For You!!
Breaking News: Obama Kills a Fly
Yes, that is the actual headline I saw on the Yahoo! front page the other day.
I like the President, as most people seem to. I may not like everything he does, but from a personal standpoint, he seems like he’d be a pretty cool person to hang out with, or [...]
A New Mersenne Prime…..YaY!!!
I will be the first to admit that I am into some pretty nerdy shit. I still like video games and I like to read about astronomy and the stars and the planets and supernovas and the like. So, I understand the thrill from new discoveries in different scientific fields.
But, there are some things that I just don’t get. The other day, I opened up Yahoo!’s home page and right there smacking me in the face was the grossly unfascinating tidbit of news that a new Mersenne Prime number had been discovered, the 47th one. This astronomically large number is some 12 million digits long. To put that in perspective, if you were to write the number out on paper, you would need 4300 pages to write it all out. That’s like four encyclopedia (remember those) volumes – all just to write out this single number.
Leave Kelly Alone!!!!!!
Enough already.
First, I’d like to congratulate all of these writers who hide behind their blogs and their message boards who have nothing better to do than self-righteously point out the faults of the celebrities they’ve helped to build up. I applaud your shrewdness and your extensive observational skills that allow you to provide expert commentary and criticism on such important issues as Lindsay Lohan’s craziness, or Kelly Clarkson weight issues, or Paris Hilton doing everything that she does on a daily basis – ok maybe the last one is alright since we sort of need that. But other than covering the everyday moves of the soulless and talentless androids that inhabit Hollywood and reporting on them relentlessly, what is so alluring about the lives of people whose occupations makes them famous? Why is this even an industry?
This Ad From AIG is Quite Disturbing
Honestly, can anyone tell me what this ad from AIG is supposed to mean?
Watchmen – Some Things You Should Know Going In
First off, you won’t find any spoilers here. This post will, however provide some general observations that people should probably know about before eagerly paying their $8.50 to sit through this 160 minute pseudo epic superhero flick.
Paul Blart: Mallcop – Is the Bar Really that Low?
How does a movie that three out of four moviegoers think is a failure manage to gross 100 million fucking dollars?
