tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213330002012-01-19T17:36:12.239-08:00A whole different way of looking at "WWJD"Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-58874552637944430702012-01-18T09:59:00.000-08:002012-01-18T10:49:08.104-08:00

I don't quite understand why this documentary was made or what its producers meant to accomplish. But it was interesting and, in some places, entertaining.Thinking that any filmmaker that made it possible for me to win free tickets to an Objectivist film must have his priorities in the wrong place, I was pleasantly surprised when we walked into the theater. While the theater was not

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-69172761139172829022011-04-17T09:26:00.000-07:002011-04-17T11:06:31.116-07:00

Here are my thoughts on the movie, which I went to see on opening night. Most of this post is gleaned from email correspondence with my friend Paul Nathan, who lives too far from any of the cities in which Atlas opened to go see it.The short version: It isn't perfect. It IS worth going to see.With one glaring exception, the movie is faithful to the novel, at least as far as plot and dialog are

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-58323598821641697942011-03-06T10:51:00.000-08:002011-03-06T11:12:39.316-08:00

In this morning's spam filter was this little gem. I think it came from someone I actually know: THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON. This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-89455982949117163452010-12-22T13:54:00.000-08:002010-12-22T16:03:11.316-08:00

Conservatives seldom piss me off, but when they do they REALLY piss me off.As I have said many times here, there are only three things that really light my fuse: lying, stupidity and hypocrisy. Which means that I am pissed off at the Left pretty much all of the time.It also means that I get pissed off at the Right once in a while. Right now is one of those times.The issue at hand is Net

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-91553444476743054042010-09-26T07:33:00.000-07:002010-09-26T10:23:38.242-07:00

I think the primary purpose of Facebook is to prove how stupid your friends and relatives really are.I only joined FB to keep up with what my kids are doing. They never write, and when I ask what they're doing, etc. the answer I get is "Oh, you're not on Facebook, are you?"So I joined Facebook. Now I know everything that they're thinking and doing. That's a Good Thing.Then I started seeing

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-51942751444722805352010-05-16T15:43:00.001-07:002010-05-16T16:27:07.693-07:00

I'm still wading in the cesspool that is known as Craigslist Rants 'n Raves. I'm ashamed of it but I can't stop going there. Like a hopeless alcoholic, I keep going back, each time swearing that I'm going to quit. Sometimes I do manage to quit -- for a week, or a few months.But then some thing or other happens, and there I am, back in the cesspool reading the vomitage of the most disgusting

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-5580678870718310532010-04-18T01:34:00.000-07:002010-04-18T05:10:06.950-07:00

Last month I packed my worldly goods, moved into my motorhome, and left the South for good. I'm sure they're glad to be rid of me; I am certainly glad to not be around Southerners any more.I spent three years in Nashville, Tennessee working in the IT department of a small non-profit known as Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI). Never in my life have I worked among so much laziness, ignorance and

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-16642489175069730832010-02-18T19:31:00.000-08:002010-02-18T23:58:30.738-08:00

It was George Bernard Shaw who supposedly originated the famous advice against wrestling with a pig. I'm still trying to decide whether that also applies to arguing with liberals.If you approach it with the right attitude, YOU can become the pig! Hmmm, there's an "in Soviet Russia..." joke in here somewhere. Yes... arguing with liberals... who are the diet Coke of Communism.... which means

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-65624566835916991102009-12-19T12:10:00.000-08:002009-12-19T17:12:10.609-08:00

Thinking of going to see the movie Avatar?Don't bother. You've already seen it. Hundreds of times. It's the same movie that Hollywood has been cranking out for the last thirty years.Plot basis: Evil alien invaders from outer space come to strip the planet of its resources and enslave its inhabitants. It's up to one person (male, of course) to save the world. No spoiler alert needed here

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-34748823666709020822007-05-06T08:04:00.000-07:002007-05-11T05:14:17.615-07:00

Yesterday I received the following email from a nice lady I know:There is an email going around about not buying gas on May 15. That is all well and good, but the gas companies know that we will buy gas the day before and the day after and use their fuel like we do everyday.To really hit them in their pockets, like they are hitting us in our pockets, we need to not use their fuel period! That

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-86101908047665280292007-02-17T16:21:00.000-08:002007-02-17T19:29:44.853-08:00

OH MY GAWD, what a spectacle, huh? Anna Nicole is dead but the story just won't die with her.Poor Britney Spears had to shave her head just to grab some headlines away from Anna Nicole. It was the only part of her body left that the world hasn't already seen, shaved....Apparently the skanks of the world don't like it when one skank gets all of the spotlight for too long. Especially when she's

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1149730539649733712006-06-07T17:04:00.000-07:002007-05-06T11:52:16.379-07:00

OK, I've been avoiding the Great Global Warming Hoax since I began this blog, referring to it only obliquely. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to wade into it now.I've had to wade into a lot of shit in my day and now that I'm not living on a farm any more I was hoping that my barn-cleaning days were over. But here I am, shoveling shit again, except that this time it's bullshit instead of cow

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1149212039775770302006-06-01T16:21:00.000-07:002006-06-01T18:34:00.286-07:00

Okay, I gave my friend Dave a pretty Bad Time® in my last post. Frankly, it was mostly an excuse to link to his website to increase his ranking in Google searches but I thought it would be fun to pull on his chain a little. I mean, why let him get off scot-free, right? Do you think John Galt would let anyone get something for nothing?Besides, Dave raised some of those libertarian issues in

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1148942963726023712006-05-29T14:00:00.000-07:002006-05-31T18:37:30.210-07:00

My friend Dave Wise and I go back a long way. We met a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away when I was in the computer repair biz and he called me to come and fix his.He's a hardcore Libertarian and it didn't take long for our conversation to turn to current events and the various nutcases that were making the news at that time. On my way out the door, he ups and tells me about The

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1146703523912098972006-05-03T17:09:00.000-07:002007-05-11T05:16:25.305-07:00

USA Today headline: "Across USA, wave of anger building over gas prices" (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-02-gas-prices-cover_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA)Well, I'm starting to get angry too. Not about the prices so much, even though I should be. They're a disgrace. But anyone with half an education could have/should have seen this coming, and getting angry isn't going to change any of the

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1146442332214156482006-04-30T15:36:00.000-07:002006-04-30T19:35:38.110-07:00

It has been 2½ months since I last posted here, and there has been a lot of H2O under the bridge.When I originally wrote the prior post, it was intended as a lead-in to a rant about a situation I had recently encountered in an online forum of "professional" (i.e., mostly wanna-be's) stock photographers who were being cynically used by the movie and record industry to protest some reasonable (and

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1140509729071037292006-02-20T23:41:00.000-08:002006-02-26T01:51:15.540-08:00

[Revised on 26 Feb 2006 with info that could not be found when the original was being written]If you've read my first post in this blog, then you know that lying is one of the three things that really lights my fuse. And I've got a pretty damn short fuse about being lied to.Tonight's attack of insomnia (i.e., the reason I'm sitting here writing at this hour instead of sleeping like decent folk)

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1140125943453354752006-02-16T13:21:00.000-08:002006-02-16T15:02:27.196-08:00

In my last post, careless readers may have erroneously concluded that, because I despise the Left so vehemently, I must therefore be a Republican. If you're one of those, then I suggest that you invest a bit of time in your own education and review one of the core curricula for Critical Thinking skills: the logical fallacies. Come back here when you can identify which of those fallacies you have

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1140040390110726762006-02-15T12:10:00.000-08:002006-02-15T15:12:32.433-08:00

I don't know why bumper stickers get me so riled up. I guess it's because so many of them are stupid -- and, if you've read my first post to this blog, you know that stupidity is one of my Big Three. And thanks to the U.S. educational system, there is a LOT of stupidity out there supplying grist for my mill.When I went to high school in the 1960's the U.S. was in a "space race" with the Soviet

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1139955851546391132006-02-14T13:43:00.002-08:002006-02-14T14:35:14.926-08:00

The story so far:So I've got a couple of yahoos named Matthew and Randall Byerly who want me to sign a "contract" so that I can do some work for them. The contract is so poorly written that I have no recourse if they do not pay me -- in effect, meaning that they're under no real obligation to do so.I was a bit taken aback. And a bit suspicious. These guys were beginning to look like the McKenzie

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1138867705895339492006-02-01T22:12:00.000-08:002006-02-02T00:44:11.796-08:00

There's an old joke that Pennsylvanians tell about themselves: "We have Philadelphia on the east end, Pittsburgh on the west end, and Arkansas in the middle."Yesterday I got a call from "Arkansaw".I'm going to use real names here because -- well, there's no reason not to. I mean, what are the chances that these two buffoons will ever find their way to this blog and see their names in lights,

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1138598085629308862006-01-29T20:34:00.001-08:002007-05-11T05:25:51.312-07:00

A few years ago I ran across a link on slashdot for a website called All About My Vagina. Now, THAT sounded interesting! Since I've had a fascination with (human) female genitalia from an early age, I surfed on over to see what more I could learn.Hours later, a few things were clear:The author lived in Victoria, B.C. (Canada)She apparently lived in a houseful of artists, or somethingShe was

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1138132340561304092006-01-24T11:23:00.000-08:002007-05-11T05:18:05.516-07:00

This morning, I got the (dis)pleasure of waking up to what NPR calls "news." It's always good to listen to what both ends of the political spectrum are saying; there are things going on that one side won't tell you about, but the other side will.So that's why I occasionally endure Rush Limbaugh as well as NPR. Most of the news I get is slanted to the Left, because most news outlets swing that

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1138046630670772272006-01-23T11:54:00.000-08:002006-01-23T12:03:50.676-08:00

One of the flames on the Oregon Bush Hackers list had the following to say about me:I looked at the blog and all I see is an attempt for a writer wanna be to get his name in public.His blog is inflammatory, contains obscenities, repeatedly and links to his commercial web site. He obviously consideres himself a professional writer. Publicity Stunt? Oh, man, I've been concentrating so hard on

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1137998868942922502006-01-22T22:05:00.000-08:002006-01-22T22:54:27.580-08:00

Well, the Oregon Bush Hackers are as mad as a stirred-up nest of hornets, and frankly I can't blame them. I kinda reamed 'em a new asshole....This is one weekend of my life that I will never get back. I'm kind of sad, because... well, dammit I was looking forward to meeting new friends there with mutual interests... friends to go wheeling with and do Fun Stuff together. Now all I feel is a

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1137921381701488752006-01-22T00:51:00.000-08:002007-05-11T05:23:07.428-07:00

"It's deja vu all over again" -- some famous baseball guy"Why must I be surrounded by fricking idiots?" -- Dr. Evil, in the first Austin Powers movieIt's happened before, but it's been quite a while since the last time. I just found out that a group I joined is not what they claim to be.I think the first time was when I became disillusioned with the environmental movement, and realized that

Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07833390952792929758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21333000.post-1137918573870220232006-01-22T00:09:00.000-08:002006-01-22T00:47:41.406-08:00

Hello, World!Well, here I am -- a Johnny-come-lately to the blogosphere. I never thought I had the time, but there are some things I just need to get off of my chest, and this is probably the best venue for it.I'm a libertarian. I used to be a Republican. Before that, I was a Democrat. My opinions are going to reflect that.There are really only three things, maybe four, that really tick me

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