The Insincerity of Local Government
My city has a mayor who has touted several agendas in the name of the public interest when the actual implementation is …
Read more...America, What the #$*! Do We Know?
It’s amazing how fearful Americans are of breasts. Slap an image of a baby and a breast doing exactly what nature intended, and suddenly it’s 9/11 all over again.
Read more...Seedlessness
OK, that’s it. Never again. The watermelon I brought home from the market turned out to be seedless (aren’t they supposed to …
Read more...Four Years Late
North Korea. Nukes. Missiles. Good idea? No! Year? 2002. Solution? Invade Iraq! Huh? What? The choice for dealing with a Stalinist lunatic …
Read more...Legacy Software
Back in the dark times, before the Internet was publicly accessible, several other networks offered a variety of software. Almost all of …
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A Pox on Collective Nouns
I have a major peeve with soccer announcers…not football/fútbol announcers, but soccer announcers (you know, the American kind). Almost every soccer match I watch is infected with a grammatical irritant that I’ve tried to scratch, but the itch persists. What bug is annoying me this time? The inappropriate application of verb agreement with collective nouns.
Read more...Stop Infantilizing Me
I was just reading about how my local lawmakers want to (and quite possibly will) pass restrictions on: cell phone use in …
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The USSRing of the USA
Oh, the irony. Two decades after President Ronald Reagan targeted the “evil empire” for destruction, the current administration is opting, instead, to use it as a model. Too extreme of an analogy? Perhaps, but there is so much that Americans used to mock that many (including a seemingly disproportionate number of the flag-waving kind) now embrace. It’s really rather sad.
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The Practice of Tipping
Though I am rarely in a position to be forced to participate in this barbaric custom (I don’t go out much), the very idea of tipping…especially expected tipping…totally offends my way of thinking how a society should operate. What astonishes me is
Read more...The IP Mess
I’ve tried writing this article countless times. Every time, I seem to get caught up in minutiae, and it simply becomes something …
Read more...Taxanity
The tax man cometh, and for many Americans, the tax man loometh on Monday. Taxes are the grease that runs governments and …
Read more...Beer Commercials
This is something that sticks in my craw, and has for a long time. Before I start firing up this rant, I …
Read more...Scarlet Letter Justice
Around the U.S., a troublesome situation is soon coming to a head. I’m speaking, of course, of our failed justice and sentencing …
Read more...Laugh Tracks
Actually, this is sort of an anti-argh…you see, I’m in favor of the much-despised laugh-track on a lot of comedy shows. Let’s …
Read more...OTC AH, HMOs, & FDA
When I lived on the U.S. East coast, I never suffered from allergies. When I moved West…whammo. There is something in the …
Read more...The W in Woe
I’m a political moderate/centrist. My liberal friends think of me as being of conservative leanings, while my conservative friends think I’m rather …
Read more...Fox Sports Photos 2005
OK. We all know that I’m a big women’s sports fan. I also accept that, for whatever reason, men’s sports get the …
Read more...Internet Taxes
The debate on instituting Internet taxes is again on the table in Congress. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (R-ND) …
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