Humanity’s radio bubble.

Also mostly irrelevant, because at the rate a radio broadcast attenuates, beyond 20 or 30 light-minutes out from earth, unless you know exactly where to point a very large and powerful detector, information theory (a pretty damn hard and fast limit) says that nothing ever made could detect any non-directed normal-power broadcast.

So aliens in Alpha Centauri and beyond aren’t watching Howdy Doody because the energy from that and anything else ever broadcast from earth is utterly and completely subsumed in and by the background noise of the universe.

There’s been nothing we’ve done that anyone not in this solar system could even know about in principle, with any technology.

It’d require a exawatt or maybe zettawatt laser to send a message to any place likely to harbor life, and then we’d have to know exactly where to point the device.

Kind of casts a new light on the likelihood of SETI detecting alien life, really.

Why are all the liberals coming out of the woodwork to insist that the Islamic-inspired terror attack in Paris has nothing at all to do with Islam?

How fucking daft can you be? Apparently so daft your brain has a draft.

What inspired my rant below was this, which I found here.

As someone who is self-employed, insurance for me and my family is absurdly expensive. After the ACA was enacted, my insurance cost went up and the level of coverage went down.

What? You mean all the things good little liberals like Amanda Marcotte said about how those meanie Obama-haters were all lying when they said their premiums shot up under ACA – you mean that wasn’t true?*

How COULD IT BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?

So yes kids, many people’s coverage has both worsened and gotten much more expensive under the ACA, despite the deranged shit Marcotte and people like her routinely spew.

*Note: I am not a Tea Partier or a conservative (quite, quite the opposite), but I will gladly link to a conservative site when it’s correct.

Dear Obama Hater – You Just Wasted A Decade Of Your Life.

No. I hate Obama and I find it pretty satisfying.

I wrote back in 2009 on my old blog after Larry Summers was installed as a conquering king in the Obama administration that nothing would be different in the Obama presidency.

I wish I had been fucking wrong.

What’d we get? The ACA, that giveaway to insurance companies? More killing of innocent brown people? Guantanamo still open and inequality rising, with no end in sight. Nothing done about climate change, and no real attempt to do so.

Sounds great, where do I sign up?

Obama is a drone-murdering lapdog of Wall Street whose defenders should be laughed at. He had an ineffective passive presidency during the most opportunity for possible real change in history during the financial crisis that he completely and utterly fucking squandered. A dead cat could’ve done better. Majority Dems in Congress, and no real change. (In fact, the old order was fortified and enlarged.)

I see little baby pseudo-liberals pitching fits like three-year-olds on the floor in Wal-Mart, about those meanies just won’t worship poor Obama like they should.

No sympathy here for such deficient thought. If you can’t evaluate evidence, got no use for you and haven’t got a thing to say.

(And no, “It could have been worse” is not a valid defense.)