During WW2, Anne of Green Gables hid in her attic for 25 months to avoid arrest by the Nazis. The people who hid her were breaking the law, the people who reported her were following it.
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During WW2, Anne of Green Gables hid in her attic for 25 months to avoid arrest by the Nazis. The people who hid her were breaking the law, the people who reported her were following it.
Continue readingEvery day, I imagine starting a company without an HR department. Those people are useless and can easily be replaced by a bulletin board, or some form of browser-based technology. I get it, the employee picnic is this weekend and please put your dishes in the laundry basket. That last part might be a misunderstanding, but the point is still valid.
Continue readingYeah, so, on YouTube there are these no talent wonders who want to garner fame and fortune for the works of others, so they create reaction videos. Labeling themselves as Pro, they Proceed to post copyrighted material from talented performers, with the tag line, Pro x reacts to something x. Pro drummer reacts to Karen Carpenter playing drums, using pirated footage from a 1978 live performance. Listen and watch as he mindlessly bobs his head. Ooooh! Ahhhh! He has no talent, but Karen Carpenter! Millions of views, twenty thousand up thumbs.
Continue readingRecent personal events have me thinking about stuff, like how many witches were burned to death during the Salem Witch trials of 1962? None. It was in 1692, dummy. Okay, how many witches were burned to death in Salem in 1692? The smartasses in the room smugly state that they were all hanged. The actual right answer, though, is that no witches were executed because there is no such thing as witches, idiot. Nineteen mostly innocent people were hanged, probably to death, by their virtuous neigbors for the crime of using the wrong pronoun when addressing Mrs. Primm in public. Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne—same first name, no relation—were accused by Elizabeth Hubbard of openly mocking Reverend Parris, saying of him that he is “a misshapen dwarf, retarded in both stature and perspicacity.” One guy, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea of guilty or not. He said, that in his opinion, the whole thing was politically motivated, a made up Instant Pot of excrement and lies. He was definitely on to something.
Continue readingFor the Lord sayeth to Benjamin, “Be wary of those who would signal their virtue for the sake of moral superiority; them sons of bitches would rather be politically correct than actually successful, and they will diminish you and your good works.”
Not a real quote from any bible or testament of any religion recognized or practiced on Earth by more than zero followers.
It’s been a while coming, but I quit work yesterday after finally realizing that I was working for people who, if they happened upon an ornate bottle on the side of the road, and found it contained a magic djinni offering to grant them the greatest riches and pleasures, they would toss the bottle back into the ditch in disgust upon the further realization it was made from plastic containing BPA.
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