Entries from April 2008

April 20, 2008

Idiocracy

It came to my realization that although I have a category on my blog named Idiocracy, it’s likely a large percentage of my readers have no idea what I mean by that. Idiocracy was a movie made by Mike Judge (of Office Space fame) that was released a couple years ago. And since I’ve watched [...]

April 20, 2008

If you don’t know where you are, how do you know where you’re going?

Now for years and years we have been hearing about how bad Americans are in geography and general world awareness. Recently a National Geographic report has come out that tested over 500 young adults (18-24 year olds) that continued to prove this point. Now the report itself is almost 90 pages long, so I’ll just [...]

April 14, 2008

Toy Juxtaposition

Accuse of me of being a consumerist whore or just plain being bored, but I like to skim through my direct mail on occasion. Even though I don’t pick up books as much as I would like to, I love reading. Magazines, blogs and even advertisements. So this Friday, I receive the Toys R Us [...]