http://www.ockhamist.com/ Ockhamist.com is the musings of Jake Allen and Blandus. Who is Blandus? Maybe we'll never know. Medieval Philosophy, Conservative Politics, current events, and ecclesiology are vogue. en-us 2006-05-17T23:43:31-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/test_4.html Test. Double Test. By the way, I am planning on going to Hong Kong on June 13th. Madness!... Ockhamist.com Jake Allen 2006-05-17T23:43:31-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/back_in_action.html Looks like I'm back. Time will tell. Cheers!... Ockhamist.com Jake Allen 2006-05-17T23:37:18-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/chchchchanges.html I need to make changes to the site that I do not know how to do (yet). Please be patient.... Ockhamist.com Jake Allen 2006-05-17T17:03:54-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/internal_memo.html Blandus, please go in and set your birthplace from the main menu. thank you.... Blandus Jake Allen 2006-05-15T21:51:17-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/back_but_buggy.html Website was down because of some database problems. Well, not down, but not working either. Things are working, sort of. Some of the settings seem to have changed. We'll see. Madness!... Ockhamist.com Jake Allen 2006-05-15T21:44:31-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/may_4_2006.html Today is George Will's birthday. (1941) National Day of Prayer (US) Cheers!... History Jake Allen 2006-05-04T08:04:15-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/_and_justice_fo.html Evil goof-ball Zacarias Moussaoui gets life in prison. The talking heads are already criticizing the jury. STOP. The jury is the mechanism we use to decide guilt, mitigations, aggravations, et al. It's imperfect, but much more desirable than the government... News commentary Jake Allen 2006-05-03T18:45:05-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/not_news.html Girls like cell phones, boys like video games. Madness.... Culture commentary Jake Allen 2006-05-03T08:31:48-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/05/thoughts.html I saw two movies this weekend. 1) Flight 93 was pretty good. It's not as good as the reviews say it is, but OK. It tries not to offend the terrorists who killed thousands. Madness. 2) RV, starring Robin Williams,... Personal Musing Jake Allen 2006-05-01T09:24:13-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/04/kobayashi_maru.html I have recently become addicted to the trials and trevails of WaiterRant.net. This is good quaility literature and teaches you how to be a better customer. "Waiter" experiences the madness on a daily basis. Sample from a recent post: (site... Blandus Blandus 2006-04-28T12:08:52-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/04/day_of_truth.html Kudos to all the high-school teens who participated in an honest demonstration of dialog with the pro-homosexual culture of many of our public schools during today's "Day of Truth."Silence – from their parents or their peers – doesn’t teach kids... Blandus Blandus 2006-04-27T14:58:00-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/04/because_its_imp.html Madness!... Humor, straight-up Jake Allen 2006-04-25T22:23:35-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/04/equal_pay_day.html This issue has bothered me for a long time.To feminists, it’s Equal Pay Day, a pseudo-holiday when National Organization for Women and National Council of Women’s Organizations lament the disparity between men’s and women’s wages. Feminists groups claim that... Blandus Blandus 2006-04-25T15:44:45-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/04/elegant_univers.html Quantum physics is fascinating because the unexpected becomes reality. We learn that the world we live in, indeed the matter within and around us, does not act like what we see and touch. It acts a bit more like what... Science and Technology Jake Allen 2006-04-21T18:57:45-05:00 http://www.ockhamist.com/archives/2006/04/kentucky_where_6.html Some idiot lets winning lottery ticket expire. The Powerball ticket, worth $853,492, is now forfeited to the government. I support the lottery as the most equitable tax on our books. Madness!... Culture commentary Jake Allen 2006-04-20T19:36:57-05:00