Thursday, December 29, 2011

Insomnia and existentialism don't mix

So here I am, at 2:50 am, reading me some internets because I can't sleep, when I stumble across this new Abstruse Goose. The implications are pretty frightening, and have left me feeling like a prisoner inside my own head.

Now I'll never get to sleep.

In other news, I recently discovered that Allie Bosch, the brilliant author and cartoonist behind Hyperbole and a Half, is EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE. I have been struck in the face by a speeding train of ineluctable joy.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Infamy

10 and 70 years ago, terror rained down on from the skies, and both times, we fought back. From Guadalcanal to Kabul, heroes were made as we confronted evil head on. But from California internment camps to Guantanamo Bay, we sometimes infamously took out our fear and our anger on the wrong people, abandoning the very fundamental ideals we strove to project. Here's to the men and women doing their best to navigate the murky field of battle between good and evil.