Douglas E. Berry

Over on Yahoo!Answers, someone asked what the homosexual agenda was. I answered.

0630: Wake up, shower.

0700-0800: Gym, then breakfast at the Juice Bar. Sign up for the marathon training group.

0830-1130: Work from home, address the continuing problem in the server architecture. Consider script allowing me to beat people over the net.

1200-1330: Lunch, then hit Whole Foods to shop for dinner with Mike and Andy. Vegetarian Lasagna? Andy will still be a bitchy Vegan. Tempted to buy steak.

1400-1600: Overthrow the moral underpinnings of Western Civilization. Destroy the family as a social unit, subvert nation's children ensuring our extinction. Laugh as the world's cities burn in endless riots caused by the end of all moral restraint. Check Craigslist for new office chair.

1630-1700: Haircut and facial. Hopefully Armando is available. Complete fairy, but a genius with scissors.

1900: Dinner. If David tells that story about the duck again, he's sleeping on the couch.

Pity I'm straight/asexual.. I'm so good at being gay otherwise.

On this date in 1934 the FBI gunned down John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

Or did they?

There is plenty of evidence that the FBI (who in the 1930s were helpless and incompetent) seized on a tip from one of Dillinger's many girlfriends and opened fire the moment they saw a man of approximately the same size with Anna Sage (the famous "Woman in Red"). Under immense pressure from FDR and the public, they quickly announced that John Dillinger was dead, and that the war of the gangs of bank robbers plaguing the nation was advancing. Interestingly, the investigation stopped cold despite there being a lot of money still missing.

So, who did they shoot?

James Lawrence was considered a low level thug who was used by Anna Sage and a crooked Indiana detective to unwittingly stand in for Dillinger. The FBI claimed that Dillinger had plastic surgery and that explains any discrepancies. But the Cook County autopsy report was supposedly lost for 30 years. After it was found, the claim is that the dead guy is not the same height or weight of Dillinger. Dillinger had blue eyes whereas the corpse had brown eyes. The corpse was missing a distinguishing birthmark and had more teeth than the notorious bank-robber. Evidence showed the dead guy had a rheumatic heart. Had Dillinger had such a condition, he would have been prevented from being in the Navy.

John Dillinger got away with it.

Fernley, Nevada. A wide spot on I-80, east of Reno and west of a whole lot of nothing. 35.4 square miles (91.7 km²) with between 12,000 and 13,000 people living there. There are thousands of towns like this in the US and Canada, rest stops on the major highways or slowly dying remnants of a bygone era. I've never heard of 99% of them, including Fernley.. until about a week ago.

That's when kevin_standlee and travelswithkuma announced that they might be buying a house there due to a long dramatic series of events. Then kshandra mentioned that she had stopped to eat there after the end of one Burning Man. I could accept this, Kiri does drive out that way for the event, and the reason for the move made sense when explained. But today? Today things got weird

This morning I got links from several of the news organizations I follow on Twitter about a hate crime committed against a Native American family by some skinheads in Fernley. Then I'm checking the shipping on an Amazon shipment and here's the only status update: Fernley NV Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit - July 5, 2011 12:29:43 PM

Is this a message? Am I being summoned? If I go will I meet a bunch of people who were drawn to the site by aliens? I am seriously expecting tonight's Countdown to end with "Good night, and Fernley Nevada!"

Cain’s Plan For Securing The Border: Build The Great Wall Of China, Fill A Moat With Alligators

Notice no explanation on how he's going to pay for this wall...

I just got a Cultural Victory in Civ IV. When you get that victory, you get this video. I tend to play with the sound off so I can listen to my music or something. Tonight, it was the beginning of the Giants - Dodgers game. The video started right at the exact moment the Dodger Stadium organ started playing the National Anthem. It made for a bit of a disconnect.

Would have been funnier had I been playing the American Empire, but I was being Roman. Very odd game.. no one ever went to war. Anywhere. Other than eliminating barbarian cities, it was a peaceful planet.

"Apply smotification"

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The daily special at my local diner.