I dislike Rap. Hell, I hate it. I don't get it, and my Paddyass white brain doesn't find it musically or intellectually interesting. In this, I am sure I resemble my father trying to get his head around Bob Dylan and not getting it. That said, I accept that I am an old white guy and I don't like con...

You know, this is a great Christmas season, and some folks just don't want it to end...Santa is Satan, Rudolph is a commie pinko fag and leads an embarassment of gay reindeer. The problem with the religious right wing nuts is that because they eschew logic and reason, it's hard to know whether or no...

Rehashing my old post on the subject, the 1986 cult classic APRIL FOOL'S DAY (I'm gonna pretend there was no abhorrent straight to DVD remake) was severely truncated between the time it was filmed and when it was released. The final twist that you see in the movie was not the final twist in the stor...

There was never any doubt in my mind during my visit to China that I was probably being "minded" by the people who had me there teaching. If they thought that I had information they needed stored on my laptop, I would probably expect them to copy it. When you visit Shanghai or any Chinese ...

Last week, I apparently touched upon a nerve when I broached the topic of Google Death for using deceptive marketing practices.  There were a lot of interesting points made in the comments here at Mashable and elsewhere, as the debate continues to rage on.  In case you missed it, the brief history...

I always have a 2 month backlog of podcasts because fortunately I don't spend too much time in the car. This morning, I started catching up with Cranky Geeks, a vidcast of John C Dvorak and his fellow cranks who gripe about the state of technology today. I was surprised when they brought up the topi...

Did Jesus ever imagine that a few hundred yards from where he told the disciples that Christians would be known by their love that Jewish authorities would break up a brawl among his followers?  And not just once, as "brawls are not uncommon at the church." Israeli police rushed into Jerusalem'...

So, now that we’re 2 weeks out, I can deliver this rant briefly without raining on anyone’s parade: I hate this fucking holiday. I don’t hate all pranks, I’m not a spoilsport or a curmudgeon or anything. In fact, Nick got me pretty good at work. It was subtle, and well though...

This is a bit late, but I wanted to get permission from both parties to post it. Names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent (and the guilty), but it’s otherwise accurate. My friend–we’ll call her Olga–sent this email to her mother on April 1st. Olga’s...

I've heard talk about a golf course planned on Arbel overlooking the Sea of Galilee for years, but this JPost article makes it sound like it's getting closer to realization.  (Interpreted for those unfamiliar with the Israeli system, that means that there are now less than 472,325 legal obstacl...