I had no idea.

This is a link to Orson Scott Card's latest rant about gay marriage and the supreme court. Feelings which I was blissfully ignorant of until this morning.

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html

I knew that Mr. Card is a Mormon. I have no problem with that. I respect his feelings on the constitution and the supreme court.

What's giving me chills is a response that is pretty much taking the words right out of my own head:

http://www.geekinthecity.com/rants/you_overthrow_t.php

"Ender's Game" was the first novel that I ever read. I read it when I was 9 years old and I've read it several times since. Whenever I get into a discussion with someone who hasn't read it but expresses an interest, I always go out and buy them a fresh copy.

Maybe I'm overeacting, I know. I think my favorite geek Rick Emerson said it best:

"Chills.
"When heroes go down," sang Suzanne Vega, "they go down fast."
Aaron "Geek in the City" Duran weighs in on the recent anti-gay-marriage comments made by celebrated author Orson Scott Card. Rarely have I seen a sense of deep betrayal put in such stark, emotional terms."

How did your Neat-o-Rama links not pick this up!?!

From the page linked below:
This machine, "Robokiyu the Rescue Robot," was originally designed to help remove rubble and trapped people from disaster zones. Until, that is, it was realized that the thing might be better suited to removing (and swallowing) those unfortunate people who had already died. So now if you get stuck in an earthquake in Japan, consider that not only may you die, but you may spend your last few minutes being eaten by this thing.

http://www.asylum.com/2008/07/30/weirdest-robots-ever-corpse-eater-bot/

OK, I know that not everybody is into him but I would like to hear some favorite George Carlin quotes. I'm not saying you have to pick your #1 of all time, that would be impossible for me but I've been sharing some with friends over e-mail and I'd like to hear yours.

Here's mine:

"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”"

I was going through the top videos of 2007 channel and noticed a whole bunch of videos that I remember really liking but it looks like I haven't voted for any of them. What happened to all my votes?