Month: April 2010
Viral infection has its boot on my neck. Just this great advertisement for today. The first line is a killer: You can find many more here.
Goyette on Inflation Spring kid activities leave little time for anything except work and . . . spring activities. I get most of my exercise by walking to work, …
Miscellany We talk about the “cradle to grave” welfare state, but I’ve applied that toward life’s underclass, those who get free lunches K-12, food coupons and welfare, Medicaid, etc. …
Happy Up Americans are rich, make no doubt about it. But we’re not happy. “Joyless lottery winners” is how a writer for The New Yorker says about us in …
Comical Queeridity Archie Comics is going gay! The gay’s name is “Kevin.” But they’re not trying to normalize homosexuality or anything like that, not at all: “The strapping blond …
“e must be active in all that the present moment demands of us, but in everything else remain passive and abandoned and do nothing but peacefully await the promptings …
Dinner Beers My father waged a thirty-year battle in favor of beer. When he moved to our micropolitan area, it was understood that classy people didn’t drink beer. Everyone …
I’m sorry, but I’m whipped. No blogging today. This little league baseball coaching is going to kill me . . . soon, if I’m lucky. Otherwise, I have two …
Compost Land Last weekend, I ripped open the chicken-wired pile in my backyard and looked for compost. I’d been shoving my family scraps in the pile since December 2008, …
Alien Life I’ve never ruled out alien life, but I lean toward the scoffing mode. This book review raises some interesting points on behalf of the E.T. searchers. “Modern …
Words and Aprons “It depends on what the meaning of the words ‘is’ is.” That’s Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony during Monicagate. He has now come a long way, …
“There can be no pact with our defects and errors.” Francis Fernandez