Category: Rant
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Why you SHOULD put your knives in the dishwasher
If you listen to the so-called knife “experts,” they always give you the same two pieces of advice: The first point is of course, insane. That $250 knife at Williams-Sonoma can only do one thing: cut. And guess what? The $15 knife I bought at Safeway has the same feature. Look, if you’re an eye…
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Why does the SF.gov iPhone app suck?
UPDATE: As @hryx pointed out on Twitter, the app is called SF.gov but the website is actually sfgov.org. SF.gov isn’t a website. Even the name of the app is an exercise in failure! Why does the SF.gov iPhone app suck? We live in a city filled with iOS software developers. Any of them could do…
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Has Safeway gone too far?
While trapped at the Market St. Safeway during the rainstorm today, I made a shocking discovery: Safeway carries not one, but THREE brands of frozen chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs. Does this alarm anyone else? Why do we need to make food shaped like extinct animals? Are there children out there somewhere who refuse to…
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The Two Commandments
With all this “rapture” nonsense over the weekend, I thought it was a good time to re-visit a classic George Carlin bit in which he narrows the 10 commandments down to a much more reasonable number, simply by cutting out the crap.
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Free stamps! Oh wait…
I got this in the mail from Sierra Club today. The envelope was covered in uncanceled stamps. OMG free stamps! Oh wait… FAKE stamps! Jerks.
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Anti-radiation hysteria is endangering lives
Here in San Francisco, a group of anti-radiation activists is making headlines and creating a pointless debate about the “dangers” of radiation. Believing themselves to be white knights, they want to get rid of radio and cell phone towers to “protect” people from radiation. The result? It’s more difficult to get a cell phone tower…
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The truth about 9/11
After all the lies, the cover-ups, and the conspiracies, are you ready to look past the wool the government has pulled over your eyes and see for yourself? Are you ready for the TRUTH about 9/11? The TRUTH ~ about ~ 9/11 . . . Here it is: 9/11 =…
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On Dane Cook’s “comedy” career
The funny thing about Dane Cook is that he’s not funny. This would be unremarkable were it not for his comedy albums, films, and TV specials. How can a comedian who isn’t funny be so popular? This was bothering me a while ago, but I’ve finally realized that every Cook fan I’d ever met was…
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Newspaper industry: Part 2
In a previous post, I had some very negative remarks about the news media. In this rant, I went over some serious problems in today’s news reporting that I don’t feel are being addressed. Despite some semi-constructive criticism at the end, I think it comes off as both weak and harsh at the same time. …
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Anger 2009
Everywhere you look recently, people seem more angry than usual. It’s not that we’re angry about something new — we’re all just letting the little things get blown out of proportion. We’re placing our anger where it doesn’t seem to fit. We see it every day. On the road and on the street, people are…
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