I am a college football fan. (more…)

[Entertaining as the Vader persona is, there are some things it just doesn't work for. So I'm going to step out of character for this post. However, the reasons I am obligated to post as Vader still apply, so names and some details have been changed. The rest is true.]   (more…)

Some Saints say that death ain’t no thang. (more…)

Scott B. at BCC once asked me if Adam Greenwood had a Facebook account. I said, “No. Of course not. What do you take him for?”

Notwithstanding the official position of the Junior Ganymede on social media, I signed up for a Twitter account. But there is a catch: like Ozzy refusing to go on stage until he gets his one thousand brown M&Ms in a brandy glass, I’m not posting anything on Twitter until 100 of you become my followers or acolytes or whatever the term is.

If you do so, here is my pledge to you: I promise not to bother you with items about chess like I do here, nor pictures of my kids, like I do on Facebook. It will be nothing but jokes, pure jokes, of the finest quality. So follow me @K6GST.

Americans believe that about 25% of Americans are gay.

A new study estimates that about 1.4% of Americans are gay.

In other news, 50% of American believe that statistical literacy is totally gay.

80% of Americans self-identify as numero-flexible.

“Chicago lawyer objects to buxom woman at trial table“    (more…)

Mah friends say mah 12 arguments to the Supreme Court in this hyar case were mighty persuasive. I cain’t gainsay it. But I allow as how mah law pardner Colonel Colt deserves most o’ the credit. That’s right, yer durn, hornswoggling cayuses, come to Bill and Colt, LLC, fer all yer legal needs. You should know as how we don’t do divorces, howsomever. We do widowin’s.

I wonder.

Some interesting statistics and graphics.    (more…)

Pretty spiffy. It’s nice to have a one-stop shop for inspiration, amusement, and embarassment.

I reckon I should git git ahold of some of this forchlorfenuron, and see just what all it will do to a field of fine Hatch chili peppers.

After all, though I’ve always been able to count on Ol’ Widowmaker for home defense, a man’s got to be open to new ideas.

The facility where I work received a new captain a few days ago, and this one is addressed as “ma’am.” Before returning to Navy assignments from NASA a couple years ago, she performed five EVAs totaling 34 hours. (link, link)

I kin count on one hand the number a times I had a shootout in the shower. It’s a durn unusual tactical sitchieation. Plinkin’ away with a .22 ain’t a bad choice.

Children raised by gay parents are more likely to be gay or bisexual themselves, a study shows. Also, those children are more likely to have their families break up. (more…)

An able defense of the need not just for individuals to freely practice their religion, but institutions. (more…)