Monthly Archives: May 2008

Arrested in Mesa for Drunk Driving While Completely Sober

Looks like Mesa cops will arrest you for drunk driving even without a breathalyzer test these days. Good times.

May 29, 2008 – 12:07 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (1)

From Russia with Hate

If you haven’t yet, take 10 minutes and view “From Russia with Hate“, an interesting report about the growing neo-nazi/skinhead movement in Russia.

While I’m sure there are a large range of emotions at play here, those who were interviewed consistently pointed to economic issues for their hate, rather than genetic inferiority, which separates these skinheads …

May 12, 2008 – 4:22 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Politics, Random | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The Cost of Enforced Sexual Ignorance

Here’s an interesting post about what abstinence only education is costing america.

May 8, 2008 – 10:18 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

Most Generous Country

Today I saw a link to an interview done with bush in Ireland. Noted was the interviewer’s willingness to ask Bush difficult questions. I don’t personally think she was that rough on him, and he roughly just stayed on his talking points and shouted her down when she tried to call him on …

May 8, 2008 – 4:07 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Canada’s high schools

Jesus, canada’s high schools are teaching this level of microbiology? My 16 year old self is extremely jealous.

May 8, 2008 – 11:19 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Asides | Comments (0)

Short Review: Mario Kart Wii

Mario Kart Wii. We’ve all been waiting for it. Does it deliver? eh…

Okay first things first. The wheel. The wheel is fun. It makes it feel like you’re really interacting with the game. This is good times. Unfortunately, it also takes a lot of the precision out of …

May 2, 2008 – 10:47 am | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (1)

NPR and conservatives

I’ve been listening to a lot of NPR over the last year, and I’ve been noticing a shift more and more to the right of politics.

The first thing I noticed was that a lot of stories on politics were being delivered as essentially straight press releases from the whitehouse, with almost no critical review. …

May 1, 2008 – 4:18 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Random | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Whuffie website idea

I’m actually sort of surprised that someone already hasn’t done this.

After reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, it’s easy to start thinking of things in Whuffie. I was going through my blog and flickr stats, noting how few hits I get on a daily basis, and thinking my online Whuffie is low.

Then …

May 1, 2008 – 2:54 pm | By Joe Mullins | Posted in Rambling | Tagged | Comments (0)