Category: Culture
I haven't read the study— it would take some digging to find, after all!— only the CNN Article, but the title sums up half of the results: "Men want hot women, study confirms." In a nutshell, the study found that...
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Posted by Rob Knop at 7:40 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Culture
My heart goes out to those affected by the tragic collapse of the I35W bridge in Minneapolis. And, for all of the rest of us, this is a scary thing. I remember the 1989 California Earthquake, when the Cyprus Structure...
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Posted by Rob Knop at 6:18 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Rant
Every day, reading the newspapers or listen to the radio, we are barraged with reminders of how screwed up our society, our country is. We see these things, and have a realization that there is little to no hope that...
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Posted by Rob Knop at 10:18 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Culture
Every so often, I'll get a forward from some friend or family member (usually not one who started using the Internet in college or grad school, as I did), warning us of some scam, some crime, some upcoming law, or...
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Posted by Rob Knop at 10:22 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Culture
Check this poem out, posted at Bad Fortune Cookie (found via BoingBoing). Disturbing, eh? Of course, when a student writes a disturbing essay, what do we do in the post-VT massacre world? We lock him up! Freedom of speech be...
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Posted by Rob Knop at 3:12 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Culture
Check this out: National ID Card Regulations Issued (27B Stroke 6 Blog, via BoingBoing). Would somebody please remind me again when it will no longer be considered unhinged paranoid raving to sound the alarm that the US is rapidly degenerating...
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Posted by Rob Knop at 10:24 PM • 14 Comments •