Monthly Archives: January 2010

Food Replicators. Awesome.

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 17, 2010
My biggest fear in life is that a lot of the cool inventions and advancements in technology prevalent in science fiction won’t happen in my life time. But it seems like and early version of food replicators may be in the works: Cornucopia is a concept design for a personal food factory that brings the [...]
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Acting Tough

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 14, 2010
In high school (and all of this is still the case), I never put on a tough guy facade (although I was, and still am, a metalhead), I never talked shit to anyone, and I never threatened anyone. I was always nice to people, I was easy to get along with, and in general, I [...]
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Politifact Weighs In on the INTERPOL Nontroversy

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 13, 2010
Politifact gives Gingrich's statement that Executive Order 12425 could, "lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials" a rating of "Pants on Fire"
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Chuck Norris Can Reach a Conclusion without Any Evidence

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 13, 2010
Turns out, there are more facts about Chuck Norris than his ability to slam a revolving door or win a game of Connect Four in only three moves or touch MC Hammer. He's now capable of making Glenn Beck look sane.
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Death Metal Rooster

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 11, 2010
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Why I’m Happy Palin’s Joining Fox News

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 11, 2010
This will provide Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with a lot of great material.
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Racial Profiling is a Terrible Strategy

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 10, 2010
In a commendable act of patriotism, “Muslims, Arab-Americans and Nigerian-Americans stood together Friday outside the federal courthouse [in Detroit] to speak out against terrorism and Islamic extremists…. The rally was held during the U.S. District Court arraignment of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is accused of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet [...]
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Gotta Give Fox News Credit on This One

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 10, 2010
After prominent figures on the right, and their zombie followers, jumped to conclusions of conspiracy over President Obama's executive order granting certain immunities to INTERPOL, a panel on Fox News quelled the resulting hyperbolic nontroversy. Don't expect any retractions from Beck, Limbaugh or others in the near future.
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Beware of Conservatism

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 9, 2010
With members of the religious right warned to “beware of science fiction” because prominent names in the field are atheists or preach secularism, I wonder what they would think of Barry Goldwater, hero of modern American Conservatism. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The [...]
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Beware of the Founding Fathers

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 8, 2010
If members of the religious right are to “beware of science fiction” because prominent names in the field are atheists or agnostics, then they may wish to beware of the founding fathers as well. However, this may create a logical paradox for constitution-touting teabaggers and cause them to self-destruct (Warning: self-destruction resulting from logical paradoxes [...]
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