Random Acts of Verbiage

This business with Comedy Central, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and censorship is completely ridiculous. I won’t discuss the whole thing, Powerline has up a post, Bleeping Muhammad, that has some great things to read. I want to comment on two things: 1) how cowardly Comedy Central is, and 2) the Muslim double standard. In [...]

NBC Winter Olympics FailSent to: NBC: nbcolympicsfeedback@nbcuni.com IOC Press Office: pressoffice@olympic.org Olympic Broadcasting Services Vancouver: info@obsv.ca NBC’s vice president of sports communications: Christopher.Mccloskey@nbcuni.com Chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics: dick.ebersol@nbcuni.com I live in Seattle; a little over two hours away from Vancouver, BC. I live in the United States; high definition cable with incredible [...]

A number of people I know have mentioned the Blood:Water Mission and I have even supported a book reading challenge to raise money for that cause (still time to support her!). They are an organization looking to help out Africa. In their own words: We’re a group of passionate people who have been inspired by [...]

This is a big day for our coutry and I am willing to bet that there will be a record number of people out voting today (or have already done so by absentee). Those that have read my blog before will know my political leanings and will know who I am voting for. Am I [...]

I noticed that I was seeing a lot more traffic to my blog today. I couldn’t figure out what would cause that. I am used to getting search results for “Matt Jones” (even though there are some millions of us out there!), but today I was seeing more. Then I noticed that many of the [...]

The so called “energy crisis” may in fact be solved by simple math; specifically the math of money. The idealist in me would rather people live environmentally sound lives and be good stewards of the Earth because it’s the right thing to do. I am sure there are a number of people who wish I [...]