entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

unfiltered_sake is the Weblog of Coleman Collins, a pro basketball player in Europe who is one heck of an entertaining writer.  He recently posted these two photos:

Consider the site stocktwits dot com (not linked directly to deny them any sort of "Google juice").  Not only would it be a fantastically stupid idea at any given moment, but given the current financial milieu, it exudes an extra special miasma of stupid, aided in no small part by the cleverly stupid domain name which goes past the "so stupid it's clever" hipster irony of cool all the way into the heart of "so clever it's stupid" territory all over again.

Needless to say, neutering the people involved would be a public service.

waider is the proud owner of Google's top hit for "suckweasel".

To me, it's just like a classic flame on Usenet: biased but factual takedowns combined with good ol'-fashioned ad hominems aimed at a target who's been asking for this sort of erudite, yet opportunistic, invective. It is entertaining even if it is light on content.

Christopher Hitchens brutalizes Fahrenheit 9/11.

I fervently wish H. L. Mencken were still alive, so i could see him write something about Reagan or Dubya that were along the lines of his scathing obituary of notable creationist William Jennings Bryan.

Update: wisn brings us not Mencken, but close enough.

On the train ride home, not one but TWO cell phones had Christmas carols set as their ring. It's Sepfuckingtember!!! ASSHOLES!!! DIE DIE DIE DIE

I've managed to flame people on LiveJournal, a mailing list, and Usenet today (well, not flames like my classic ones, but compared to my mild rebukes of late, they're flames). I wonder if it's this damned headache or if it's just one of those days.

"Everything happens for a reason."  What an unthinking, 20/20-hindsight, rationalizing, retconning piece of claptrap.  It makes me ill.

Everything happens for a reason.  And that reason is, GOD IS BORED AND HATES YOUR GUTS.  Don't believe me?  Ask him.