Speak Your Mind
Aug 9th, 2010
What’s the Internet good for? There’s fantasy sports, political mumbo jumbo and oh yeah–grocery shopping. It’s 2 a.m. and my fantasy baseball team just scored another point. Wow. And they said there was nothing to do on the Internet; that it was the domain of porn freaks and losers. Hmph. Thanks to the wonderful worldwide [...]
Aug 5th, 2010
They called him an American Patriot. Back in the 1700s, it was a title that meant serious business. People who wanted to be counted as a patriot put their lives on the line for an idea no one knew would be any better than the established British rule. Or even if it would work. For [...]
Aug 2nd, 2010
The sun hit asphalt and made it sizzle. I can see the waves of heat coming up off the road, I can feel it seeping through my boots and baking my body up through my toes. Damn thing always seems straight up over me anyway. I must be stupid to be out here. Dumb. Why [...]
Jul 29th, 2010
Long ago I carried a case of wine from South Africa to America. No one checked it, no one stopped me. All the way from Capetown to Atlanta to LA, I carried that case on a bag strapped to porto wheels. It was good wine, too – glad I did it, though by the time [...]
Jul 26th, 2010
Talking to a million people is the loneliest thing. They sit you in a chair on an island, connected to the world by a rubber earpiece and a microphone. You sit there, for a long time, for forever, staring into a black hole and pretending that you’re good, you’re fine, that you’re ready to tell [...]
Jul 23rd, 2010
Out of Sussex, England, comes a video titled “Embrace Life, Always wear your Seatbelt,” which elegantly whispers the reason why we really ought to use our seatbelts. The PSA shows a man driving a car and plowing into the side of a…oh, wait. That’s all the other videos about seatbelt use that have attempted to [...]
Jul 19th, 2010
Toyota Recall — Editorial: Aside from the obvious – that Toyota will finally fix its vehicles – the long road that is Toyota’s trail of misery is good for other reasons, as well. First of all, it gives Jon Stewart of the Daily Show plenty of material with which to deflect viewers from the other trail of tears going on in DC, namely, the Democrats’ runaway trip down a dead-end street called health care.