Updated 2015-09-11: Todd Courser, bigoted homophobic Republican state representative, has resigned. His coworker, that he was having an adulteress affair with, has been fired (technically “expelled”) by the rest of the state legislature. Please excuse me while I experience some schadenfreude. Updated 2015-08-08: I just learned that Todd Courser, the elected representative responsible for the Christian motivated legislative bill I discuss below was having an affair (i.e., committing adultery) with legislator Cindy Gamrat.

I just wasted an afternoon watching a summer blockbuster movie even worse than San Andreas. Even though I only payed $5.50 to watch the movie I still feel like I was ripped off. At least San Andreas had Paul Giamitti portraying a scientist who wasn’t an idiot or amoral asshole. Too, very little of the dialog in San Andreas was laughable. The same cannot be said about Jurassic World. The only redeeming feature of Jurassic World is the CGI.

Today I visited the newest Whole Foods store in San Jose on The Alameda Ave. just outside of downtown San Jose. This is what I saw across the street: The sign reads “Cranial Sacral Therapy Center“. A form of alternative medicine that is only slightly less ridiculous than Homeopathy. Note that this therapy is more commonly known as “Craniosacral”. See Quackwatch and Science Based Medicine for just two takedowns of this horse shit.

The Washington Post published an article titled Rich Californians balk at limits: ‘We’re not all equal when it comes to water’. It’s getting a lot of attention. Such as this article at Daily Kos. The article includes many memorable quotes including the one in the title. Here’s another one from a self-centered, entitled, oblivious asshole throwing a tantrum: What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?

Hosting provider ovh.net has published WhoIs data that says they handle abuse reports at the email address abuse@ovh.net. So I dutifully reported a WordPress account credential guessing attack that began on 2015-03-18. I sent emails on 2015-03-25 and again on 2015-06-04. As of today, 2015-06-14, three months after the first attack I’m still seeing attacks from that server. This was my first email (I’ve clipped the log records I included to just the first one):

If you haven’t watched The Lives of Others you should do so at your earliest opportunity. It’s necessary to provide context for 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson’s remarks regarding the need for our own secret police: The pediatric neurosurgeon-turned-candidate told a crowd of Iowa Republicans he is “thinking very seriously” about adding “a covert division of people who look like the people in this room, who monitor what government people do.

This morning I noticed an interesting series of fetches from my web site with the user-agent value Domain Re-Animator Bot (http://domainreanimator.com) - support@domainreanimator.com Nearly every URI was requested at least twice. One of the URIs was requested five times in a row which triggered one of my blacklisting rules. So I sent an email to support@domainreanimator.com pointing out that their crawler is rather stupid in its behavior. This is the response I received:

I’ve been binge watching “The Wire” for a couple of weeks since I signed up for HBONow. This is a show renowned for its realistic depiction of how police handle crime in Baltimore, MA, USA. I love the show and hate what it says about the America I live in as a privileged white male. The Rude Pundit writes another article you should be reading instead of mine about “America’s Obsession With Punishment: Who Cares If You’re Guilty?

Updated 2015-06-12: It occurred to me to check the I/O trace file. All of the proxy requests have a referrer header of gatherproxy.com. Which is a site offering a list of proxies that can be abused to hide the source of an attack. They currently boast of having identified 9896 open proxies. Whomever registered gatherproxy.com and ntweb.com are using WhoIs privacy protection services. But the data is sufficiently different it isn’t obvious if the same individual registered both domains.

I learned today, thanks to The Daily Show, that Nick Offerman (best known for playing Ron Swanson on “Parks and Recreation”) has a new book titled “Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers”. I loved his first book, “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living” and gave it a rare five star rating. I would listen to him read the back of a box of breakfast cereal.