Today’s prize for chutzpah in spam goes to Technomages [what would JMS say?], whose ad ends with “Click Here to not receive future mailings of this offer”. If you click, you won’t see this ‘offer’ again, but you’ll get a hundred others. If not, presumably you’re eager to get the same pitch over and over again.
You may be hearing less from me in the next few weeks. Got a temp job that involves getting up at hours previously unknown to civilized man, at least this one.
Reciprocality: some interesting stuff about the psychology of creativity.
oh yeah, that’ll help – but help whom?
The latest from that great hypocrite Don Perata: Calif. lawmaker wants 5-cent tax on every bullet to support trauma centers.
Perata said there was plenty of precedent for taxing bullets, noting that California has been taxing smokers 50-cents for each pack of cigarettes since 1998 to help pay for health and education programs.
Never mind that most of this tax would be paid by the people least likely to hurt someone with their bullets, i.e. private citizens who go to the range and practice.
California leads the nation in numbers of youth gun suicides and homicides.
Gee, does that mean gun control in California – already one of the five or so most repressive states – isn’t working? Or only that California is a big place?
Google cites 28 pages for perata+hypocrite, but not all of them apply the epithet to Perata himself.
ungrammatical boys, ungrammatical boys, whatcha gonna do?
Okay, the Grammar Police gag has been done before, if not quite so stylishly. I don’t mind an excuse to plug my favorite college strip.