http://www.deadtony.com Sordid tales of my life and a dead friend named Tony Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:44:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was reading a news article yesterday and came across the following comment: "The best way to save the Republican Party now is to destroy it. In the marketplace of ideas, social conservatism is a viral infection contaminating the GOP. It represents an evolutionary dead-end whose logical conclusion is fascism if ... http://www.deadtony.com/?p=80 This is old news but I'm just getting around to blogging about it. A couple of weeks ago, there was a news story about information loss in black holes. One such story is here. I've always had a problem with the information loss theory of black holes. The basic tenets of the ... http://www.deadtony.com/?p=79 A truly sad day in entertainment. Harvey Korman, a true comedic genius, died from complications of an abdominal aneurysm. You will be missed. Go rent High Anxiety tonite in tribute to Mr. K. http://www.deadtony.com/?p=78 I found this picture last night on MyConfinedSpace.com and laughed pretty hard. Being a lolcat and Cthulhu fan, I just found it hilarious. http://www.deadtony.com/?p=77 So I've been pondering some theoretical physics and astronomy lately and have had some thoughts on the matter. For those of you who don't know, the universe is enormous. But the mass we can see only accounts for a small portion of the mass we expect the universe to be. Scientists ... http://www.deadtony.com/?p=76 If you haven't heard, Charlton Heston died yesterday at the ripe old age of 84. While I don't revel in his death, he did kind of sort of go nutty with the whole NRA thing. While most of the world remembers him for Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, CH will ... http://www.deadtony.com/?p=75 I apologize for being remiss in my duties of blogging lately. But I've been busy a few other projects. So, as you may or may not know, I live in Georgia. There is a mess of a water crisis here right now. We've got less than 90 days left by some ... http://www.deadtony.com/?p=74 So I was reading about the puppet master retiring at the end of August and checked my portfolio to see how much money I've lost from my retirement fund today and saw this:    My Microsoft position was up a total of $666.01. It just kind of made me chuckle. Karl Rove ... http://www.deadtony.com/?p=73 I've long believed that the economic situation in this country hasn't been right for some time. Yes, I know the Bush administration continually says it's strong and that everything is great. But I live outside of the bubble in which they live. I see, every day, the people of this ... http://www.deadtony.com/?p=70 Holy shit do I love seeing the number 666. Not only does it instill fear in the hearts of mindless idiots who subscribe to organized superstition, but it's such a cool number! Ah, the endless numerological possibilities. Anyway, today I noticed that the NASDAQ was down $6.66 so I thought ... http://www.deadtony.com/?p=69