Pour heavily-sweetened syrups and sauces over the food of the commoners, and they will let you keep your caviar.

It's called the 'treacle down theory'.

Bribe the oil leak to come out in someone else's patch.

of its assassinated Presidents.  Records exist, but ask almost any citizen and you will get a wrong answer.

Assassination is within the normal range of US politics.  Many people would have loved to kill Bush-Cheney, and many (mostly different people) would love to kill Obama.  The GOP/… Read full post »

are condemned to repeal it.

U came after T.

No, Mr Distalthorpe, your arthritis won't trouble you here -- but do be careful of these cumulo-nimbus clouds, they're rather soggy at the edges, easy to slip off.  You can't really be hurt, but we have to file an incident report. 
Now, before I issue your harp, there's something I need… Read full post »

The best coffee beans on Pandora grow on the floating Hallelujah Mountains (for the only reason that anything happens on Pandora: plot convenience, and visual effect... what feeds the waterfalls up there?).  The best beans, and obviously, the beans hardest to obtainium.

This is why Pandora is th… Read full post »

Rape is vile, and so is the trivialization of it as a video game, in related but not identical ways.  Question, though:

Why is RapeLay making waves that video games of murder do not raise?  There are many murder games, and one rape game gets all the ink.

For most people,… Read full post »

Vehicle messages are low and rear.  Pedestrian text goes high and front (been there, done that, designed the T-shirt) except for the odd jeans logo.  Even sports clothes, which have become billboards, ignore the base.

Why?

There are such natural walking-rear mottos:

If you can read this, y… Read full post »

that my new home planet would have four moons, I would have expected four-shadowing.

Don't care what the Second Amendment says...  ask yourself, what professor can be trusted with so much as a BB gun? Read full post »

Build a system that will correctly analyse Ultimate Artificial Intelligence Challenge 1, and categorize it as a joke.

Build a robot that will still respect you in the morning.

At this moment, just one side of the Earth is receiving sunlight, from just one side of the Sun.

One senses a certain lack of commitment.

At the end of the day, it's always darkest before the dawn.  (About six hours before the dawn, where I live.)

If it turned out to be darkest after the dawn, we'd call it "Obama's night". Read full post »

Whenever you save the world, Save As under a new name -- unless you have a good version control system installed.

The standard Save is an action with no Undo, regardless of unintended consequences.

Hark!  I hear the wishful thinking --
Listen what they say --
That pigs shall fly for ever more
Because of Wishmas Day! Read full post »

• A good landing is a landing you can walk away from.
  True for pilots
• A good birth is a birth you can walk away from.
  True for giraffes
• A good marriage is a marriage you can walk away from.
  True for Californians (?)
• A good death
… Read full post »

One of the pleasures of re-reading 1950s science fiction that I read when it was new, is to see what guesses were right, what turned out nonsense, and how far the timing was off.  (It would also be fun to write a book about the details, and at least three people… Read full post »

"Oh Thou who takest delight in the unruly children who hassle their Dad, have mercy upon us."

If the Darwinist socialist* Obama regime bans cannibalism, it will soon try to stop people from eating species it claims are our close kin, like pigs, cows, cats and dogs.  And moose.

Eat the government before it eats you.

*but not Social Darwinist. Read full post »

They are in your own image.

Show me the jail
Show me Polanski
Who'd like to jump bail:
I'll show you an old man
With so many reasons why
There but for stardom
Goes you, or I.

mmm

hmmmm...