The Happy Moron

Thank you, that is all.

It’s a little embarrassing to bring this up, but…
When I posted about online community, I neglected to mention the heart and soul of online community. That special something that online community brings, that no other community can bring in quite that special way:
Spam.
So of course that was the post on which the spam filter broke [...]

Scott Hanselman expresses a thought well:
“I’m of a slightly older Internet generation that doesn’t believe everyone is a unique snowflake and that if everyone behaves with a “this is me, like me or leave me alone” attitude then anarchy (ahem, or the internet) will emerge.”
Community is hard. It means seeing other people and caring for [...]

Fallen kings, fallen countries, prophets notwithstanding.
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This is a continuation of a little game I thought up. The game is to retell a fairy tale or children’s story while omitting one of the major characters. It might make a passable party game.
Without further ado, and without a third wee porker, I present The Two Little Pigs.
Once upon a time there were [...]

This cracks me up.
 Reports that some of the suspects were enjoying their stay in Dutch prison cells and were considering eventually claiming asylum, were met with disdain by the country’s foreign minister who was quoted as saying he would prefer it if they were being tried in Kenya under UN auspices.
Maxime Verhagen was quoted [...]

I’d just like to tactfully point out that if yesterday’s story was grisly and disturbing, today’s fare is a man sentenced to hang for murder, four men on trial for plans to carry out jihadist bombings, and 23 people killed in actual terrorist bombings.
I didn’t *mean* to pick four stories all related to the Arab [...]

Gee, a guy gets up in the morning, checks the news and has this gem of a story staring him in the face.
How’s a fella supposed to react to  someone getting his hand chopped off?
Reaction 1: Don’t read the news.
Umm… I don’t really like this as an option. It seems a little naive and perhaps [...]

…which is why I wear my hair short.

The thing that makes me say, “You’re doing it WRONG!”