The Coal Speaker

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Any day now: A boy is on the way. We’re anxiously awaiting Ayden Morris to arrive on the crust of the earth.. Of course readers will be alerted when the little one arrives.. pray for me and my wife as we head into a trying week of anticipation!

Death at a desk

Dying at the desk is given a whole new meaning in Los Angeles as an LA County employee died at her desk on Friday but no one noticed until the day after.. One police officer said that the last time someone say her alive was Friday morning.. no one asked her what she wanted for lunch? No one checked on her throughout the day? Not even her boss or a co-worker wished her a good weekend at day’s end? Foul play is not suspected in the 51-year-old’s tragic demise.. but headlines across the nation being read by many people in offices that wonder if they, like her, would be left for dead by those who work with them..

Strange streaks in the sky being reported all across the East Coast

Sure Jeopardy has Watson cleaning the clocks of human competitors, but no computer will ever be able to emulate the grand skits of yesteryear on SNL with fake Trebek and fake Sean Connery… Therapists for 100 Alex.

Watson kicked ass on Jeopardy tonight

And while geniuses may be in fear that computers are taking over, maybe the person most in fear should be Alex Trebek..? Are his days as a host numbered..? Are the days of humans numbered.. An interesting world we’re paving for ourselves, I suppose. A world that, I suppose also, will force humans to become inferior to .. what we created.

The day on earth when the planet was hit with a half a million years if sunlight in a fraction of a second…

CBS reports: CBS reporter sexually assaulted during Egyptian demonstrations

Hannah Montana have him an achy braky heart

..Billy Ray say the show destroyed his family..

Hannah Montana have him an achy braky heart

It was a long incubation.. Lady Gaga spent 72 hours in her egg

Here comes the sun

STARING AT THE SUN

***STARING AT THE SUN: NASA’S OFFICIAL SOLAR SITE***
The solar flare has suspended part of radio communications in Korea..
Class of its own: X-Class..
Watching for satellite disruption..
Flashback just yesterday: “Unlikely” to cause communications problems..

You know I knew I hate Valentine's Day for a reason

And now I have my reason: Lupercalia, when the men were men and the women were whipped.. And now, after muddying the waters as the Popes do so well, we celebrate Valentine’s Day, or at least did yesterday.. The NPR story I linked here a few minutes ago continues to fascinate me.. ..The notion of young Roman men picking female names out of a jar, and having relations for the duration..no flowers necessary in Roman times. No chocolates. No wining and dining.. instead it was the very act of procreation or nocreation that took place with immediate flare..

NPR reports, too,

Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile.

…and now, after this brutal history of abuse of women and strange pagan rituals of what could best be described as rape, we celebrate a glorified marketing bonanza of food booze and cards. And the women that don’t get a card are told to be upset.. the men who have no one to give a card to are told they are losers. Maybe those should get together and start celebrating Lupercalia all over again, minus the nudity, whipping, gender abuse, and demoralization of humanity. But isn’t demoralization of humanity what Valentine’s Day is all about anyway..?