A Procrastinator’s Musings

Chest-thumping. George W. Bush. Enough said.

How to Buy a New Car.

It’s pretty short. Watch it even if you’re not going to buy a car. It’s entertaining.

The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Bullshit Statistics

This article is bloody brilliant! (And freaking hilarious!)

Here’s the list (of bullshit statistics), although I highly recommend reading the article for the highly entertaining descriptions…

#6. You Accidentally Swallow About 8 Spiders a Year

#5. You Only Use 10% of Your Brain

#4. Men Think About Sex Every Seven Seconds

#3. Spousal Abuse Skyrockets on Super Bowl Sunday

#2. You Must Wait 30 Minutes After Eating Before Swimming

#1. Christmas Causes Suicide

Who thought peeing could be so much fun?

Super Pii Pii Brothers for the Nintendo Wii

The race for the Democratic nomination—”race” is hardly the right word, is it?—now feels like a quantum physics problem: How long can a body exist in a state approximating motionlessness without actually stopping?

- John Dickerson, Slate.

Somebody had the brilliant idea of creating a…

Smart Car Monster Truck

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Credit: Wizard of Id.

Marriage is a funny thing.

I attended my cousin’s wedding today. It was a full-length Hindu wedding – 7 rounds, fire, Sanskrit rites, petals, sweets, garlands, and all the rest. From start to finish, the official wedding ceremony lasted about 2 full hours.

About halfway through, I realized that neither me nor anybody else had any clue as to what was really going on. Nobody had any real idea what the Sanskrit phrases meant. Nobody knew the relevance of the petals and the garlands. Nobody knew why we had to sit there for 2 hours. And I, personally, was hoping the fire alarm wouldn’t go off (if there was one in the building).

I know that it’s pretty pathetic of me to think of all of that in the middle of my cousin’s wedding. But it really did make me think. Why is it that we believe in such elaborate rituals and ceremonies and put our highest faith in such bonds when we don’t even know what any of it means or why we do it? Why is it that we blindly believe in religion and all of its little rules? I guess I’m not the person to ever understand that, but it still makes me wonder.

Anybody got answers?

“At the time of writing I never think of what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at the given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.”

-Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor.

He has served in the Senate since 1962, longer than all but Senator Byrd. Over the past few decades, he’s been the Democrats’ champion of civil rights and other significant issues. He endorsed Barack Obama for president before Super Tuesday this past February. While he’s definitely got a fight ahead of him, Ted will always be respected as one of the finest Democrats to have served our nation.