Category Archives: Interests

After John Tyner: A Five-Step Plan to a Sane Airport Security System | Mother Jones

After reading about these Republican Porn Scanners, it just galls me to think of how stupid our fellow countrymen are. These frightened fools think that technology can trump common sense. I have quite a few links about how to intelligently deal with security and those who think they have a justification to violate our rights to prevent the last (often failed) terrorist attack from happening.

Face it, no one is going to hijack a plane the passengers will passively sit in ever again. No shoe bomb can’t be found by a good dog. Or even a bomb in some women’s underpants on some guy. A pack of underpaid, bored TSA goons isn’t a patch on ACTUAL security screening.

Here is the first effort to promote saner security that works. Too bad no one will listen.

Bruno Mars: Singing His Own Songs, At Long Last : NPR

I don’t often listen to pop music or hip-hop or any derivation thereof. So I really had no clue who Bruno Mars is until I heard this interview he did on NPR last weekend.

I checked out some of his stuff and it isn’t all that bad. Not my usual listening material – whatever that might mean – but there’s some actual skill at work there.

So color me surprised and check it out if you’re interested.

Marwencol

This film looks amazing. It is going to play in Minneapolis but I really just don’t have the cash to go see it. Hopefully it catches some form of DVD distribution down the road. Check out the Marwencol site and watch the following trailer to see more about this story.