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Celebs / news and things / Things I like / TV Shows
by alex · Published December 28, 2013 · Last modified August 12, 2014
It’s amazing what a whole bunch of public pressure can do to correct over zealous political correctness. It seems that A&E figured out which side of the bread their butter was on, and decided...
The financial troubles of Lotus F1 team got revealed late in the 2013 season, when driver Kimi Räikkönen stated without a doubt that he had not been paid at all for that season so...
news and things / Things I hate
by alex · Published December 25, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2015
Here’s another story, just like the Duck Dynasty story, that shows that the public is no longer willing to get their rights trampled on just to be politically correct. The UK has a fairly...
news and things / Things I hate / TV Shows
by alex · Published December 25, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2015
It’s been interesting to watch the fall out of the Duck Dynasty situation, and how the battle lines are being drawn up. If you have been hiding under a rock or watching nothing but...
Celebs / news and things / Things I hate
by alex · Published November 3, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2015
I have to admit, the headline sort of writes itself, in part because it’s as obvious as can be. Chris Brown has made a name for himself alternately with some fairly well received rap...
If you ever want to see factoids, factiness and truthiness all at work together, then you have to look no further than your inbox spam folder for pump and dump schemes. While they may...
economic crisis / news and things / Things I hate
by alex · Published September 15, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2015
I was reading an interesting op-ed article today on the Huffington Post discussing the minimum wage and it’s effects on companies like Wal-Mart. The article is interesting to me because my recent life experiences...
Motorsports / news and things / Weird stories
by alex · Published September 13, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2015
Sometimes you just can’t get a break, that must be the feeling is NASCAR’s world headquarters these days. After a season full of odd situations, start and park drivers, and various forms of cheating...
In my poking around the other day, I ran across this article from ESPN talking about a real issue that faces NASCAR in the coming years: Their stars are getting grey around the temples,...
Internet and Technology / news and things / Things I hate
by alex · Published August 2, 2013 · Last modified December 26, 2017
The Bradley Manning case has become something that might be referred to as seminal or perhaps even changing history. The recent verdict, which found him not guilty of aiding the enemy but did find...
economic crisis / Motorsports / news and things
by alex · Published July 24, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2015
A couple of years back, with Speed TV still had a decent chat board on their site, I was discussing with the locals how all those empty seats and covered up grandstands were bad...
Internet and Technology / news and things
by alex · Published May 28, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2015
Tuesday was not a good day for the operators of the Liberty Reserve virtual currency system, who found themselves indicted on various money laundering charges, arrested, and their system of websites shut down. It’s...
Internet and Technology / news and things / Weird stories
by alex · Published May 26, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2015
I am the sort of person who can spend hours reading stuff online, cruising from one site to another. I am sort of a internet junkie with an endless supply of my favourite drug...
Internet and Technology / news and things / Things I hate
by alex · Published April 28, 2013 · Last modified December 26, 2017
One of the recurring arguments that the anti-copyright, pro-piracy types like to toss out there is that shutting down pirate sites (or removing pirated content from a file locker, example) is a form of...
future tense / Things I hate / Things I like / TV Shows
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