The site for ranting and reporting by John Masters
Cnet News has an interesting story about the implantable defibrilators that some heart patients wear (including Vice President Dick Cheney). Security researchers were able to reprogram the device to either shutdown or deliver very strong jolts that could be fatal.
Read moreEight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States.
Read moreGood grief, could any more be made of this? New York Governor Elliot Spitzer had apparently been paying for a little something on the side, so now the Republicans demand that he resign. Senator David Vitter (R. Louisiana) was implicated in a prostitution case, but never resigned…why the double standard? Saying he’s involved in a prostitution ring is like me saying I’m involved in the fast food franchise business just because I ate at McDonald’s one day last week.
Read moreWe’ve got a brief recap of some of the idiotic news from the week ending, March 7, 2008. A man swimming with gators for a second time, and a guy having his friend shoot him so he can get some time off work.
Read moreIt’s a tie, one is a politician and the other a criminal…might be hard to tell the difference I admit.
Read moreTThe Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released annual survey results that indicate nearly half of American adults leave the “faith tradition they were raised in to either join another religion or drop out of organized religion altogether. Ths year though, the unaffiliated people who say they are religious but don’t claim allegiance to any particular institution or tradition are now the fourth largest religious group in America.
Read moreAll these religious right wingnuts think they absolve themselves of any responsibility for the violence purpetrated against gay people when they say, “Oh we don’t hate gays, we just hate the sin.” Bullshit. This is what you have wrought, and you will stand in judgement for it. These wingnuts love to invoke the Old Testament wrath of God when it comes to homosexuality. I’d remind them the prophets of the Old Testament were usually warning of God’s wrath in the context of how corrupt the religious leaders’ of that time had become. Micah summed it well: “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
Read moreWe have already held the primary here in Florida, but of course our vote didn’t count (more on that in a minute). At the time John Edwards was still in the race, and I voted for him. I believe he was the most sincere candidate running, and he seemed to have the most radical ideas for change, and some radical change is needed. Of course you know he’s out now, and it’s down to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. So who will I be voting for in the general question? Well frankly, I’m still debating who I hope gets there for the Democrats.
Read more  Well, it’s that time of year in Florida when you can anything you can imagine fried. Yep, it’s time for
Read moreThis is a round-up of minor and fun news items for the week ending Friday, February 1, 2008. We have a guy at the airport with 99 fake IDs, and speaking of the airport, CNN shows how a TSA inspector got a bomb past security there. We’ve got a story in a brain vaccum (I think the prototype might have been tested on George Bush), and the price of chocolate is going up.
Read moreAlison Scott is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby’s father, Alison decides to give the lovable doof a chance. An overgrown kid who has no desire to settle down, Ben learns that he has a big decision to make with his kid’s mom-to-be: will he hit the road or stay in the picture! Courting a woman you’ve just knocked up, however, proves to be a little difficult when the two try their hands at dating. As they discover more about one another, it becomes painfully obvious that theyâ¿¿re not the soul mates they’d hoped they might be. With Alison’s harried sister Debbie and hen-pecked brother-in-law Pete the only parenting role models the young lovers have, things get even more confusing. Should they raise the baby together? What makes a happy lifetime partnership after all? A couple of drinks and a wild night later, they’ve got nine confusing months to figure it out.
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