Saturday, November 13, 2010
Hey you, fellow American. Pissed off about airline security? TAKE THE TRAIN. Okay, it might take a little longer. But you can bring a bunch of luggage – no fees! You can’t smoke in the bathrooms but they’ll stop and let you off to smoke and then let you back on. I think because the [...]
Saturday, November 6, 2010
So, my mom mentioned this blog to me Snoburbia. I don’t like it, so I’m not linking to it. I think she thought it was insightful. It is not. Blogs rarely are. The blogger irritated me first by referring to mid-america as, “that space between the two coasts”. Maybe she was being facetious. I hope [...]
As you, dear reader, are aware I finally have a job after being unemployed for an inordinately long amount of time. So, it’s back to the daily grind, and the daily list of things that grind on my nerves. Here’s my stupid complaint for today: paper seat protectors for toilets. They put these stupid things [...]
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When you’re a kid, they teach you about Columbus a little. How he sucked up to Queen Isabella, had a trip to India funded by the monarchy, and decided he’d try to sail in a new direction to India. And he found what would become North America. And he named the inhabitants who lived there [...]
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Read THIS. Did you read it? Maybe read it again. Dan Savage said the absolute, most important thing, succinctly: Fuck Your Feelings. I’ve talked at length about gay marriage. I’ve talked about it mostly in an individual rights sense. As in, the government should not be allowed to treat any citizen as if they’re a [...]
I’m reading hotel reviews. I do this sometimes. And whenever I do, I start hitting my head on the desk. So here are my rules: If it bothers you enough to write a negative review, talk to hotel management. But not in adversarial way and do not mention compensation, with the one exception being covered [...]
Michael and I have been terribly ill the past few weeks. It’s been a load of crap. It started with what seemed like a harmless head cold, just some congestion which we tried to knock out with Sudafed. Not that crap without the ephedrine in it, it doesn’t work. The good stuff, that the US [...]
I know, I know. Isn’t this really old news? Don’t we all already know this? The results of a new Rasmussen poll, released today, show that if the 2012 presidential election were held today between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, 42% of Americans would vote for Sarah Palin. One wonders exactly why this poll was [...]
I really like the idea of RFID road toll collection. It gets rid of the need for people to stand in little booths at all hours of the day to take your money $1.75 at a time. Unfortunately, the implementation on the east coast of the US, in the form of E-ZPass®, has sucked. They [...]
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I don’t like Ben Stein. I think he is evil, or at least unsavory. And Comcast now has these commercials with Shaq and him, where Stein says, “I know about money, because I’m an economist.” And I guffaw. That’s right, I said “guffaw.” Because it seems to me if Ben Stein knew about money he’d [...]