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• 10.15.08
  You Can’t Spell “Blog” Without “Poverty” News | (2)

  This morning at the ungodly hour of 10am, I was alerted by my dear friend @katrinaneufeld, that today is something called Blog Action Day. Blog. Action. Day. Not three words you'd typically associate with ol' Connie Con-Con (me). But when I heard that the "day" was "poverty", how could I not action-blog about it? Poverty is a serious issue. It saves marriages, for instance. Without poverty, everyone would be having extramarital affairs, because it would be easy to take a day off your high paying job, rent an expensive hotel room and go at it. Poverty keeps the food chain from getting ...
• 11.17.07
  Station Owner Kills Rival in Gas Price Fight News | (0)

  Ah, Detroit. Rather than becoming depressed and enraged at humanity when I see stories like this, maybe it's better to just laugh. And laugh and laugh. Raising, lowering... what's the difference? That gas-pricin' son of a bitch had it coming. (via Drudge)
• 07.03.07
  I’m becoming an environmentalist. News | (1)

  The Sydney Morning Herald begins the article with this alarming lead:Humans are just one of the millions of species on Earth, but we use up almost a quarter of the sun's energy captured by plants - the most of any species.The most of any species!? I had no idea! I mean, I figured we at least used less than raccoons. I mean—raccoons! —they're so damn sneaky! But you can't argue with science. This showed humans used 24 per cent of the energy that was captured by plants. More than half of this was due to the harvesting of crops or ...
• 06.20.07
  Happy Juneteenth! Let’s form a lynch mob. News, People | (0)

  What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. People.A few years ago in my hometown, a guy ran his car into a little girl, killing her. I assume it was an accident. Some people nearby rushed over immediately. So they could beat up the driver. One of my coworkers, while riding his bike to work, was struck by a car making an illegal turn. While he lay on the ground, stunned and bleeding, other bicyclists—obviously concerned—interrupted their own commute. So they could yell at the driver. It took a while for anyone to actually help my coworker.This week in Austin, Texas, at ...
• 05.13.07
  Like a Puritan prostitute Language, News | (0)

  Could this be the most ironic news lead ever?Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that disasters such as worldwide famine and an obesity epidemic could destroy the U.S. health care system unless politicians begin to look ahead and cooperate.I'm pretty sure, at least, that it says a lot about the state of our world.

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